Edward Bulwer-Lytton

36.15 - MU Podcast - This Hollow Earth - Episode 06: The Coming Race and Vril Power

Mysterious UniverseOct 16, 2026

This installment of the This Hollow Earth saga dives into Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, the supposed fiction that introduced Vril, an all-powerful energy wielded by a winged subterranean race called the Vril-ya. The hosts retell the narrator's descent through a mine shaft into a lamp-lit underground city, his encounters with mechanical wings, healing and destroying staffs, and a race that survived an ancient deluge by fleeing underground. They explore claims that Nazi occultists in the Vril Society treated the novel as fact and launched expeditions to find entrances to the hollow earth.