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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.

36.11 - MU Podcast - This Hollow Earth - Episode 01: Deep Lore

Mysterious UniverseSep 24, 2026

Mysterious Universe launches a multi-part saga based on Warren Smith's 1970s book This Hollow Earth, exploring the claim that vast inhabited worlds exist beneath our feet. Hosts Brayden Thomas and Joe Hodgdon cover Edmund Halley's concentric-sphere theory, the Agartha legend, the sinister Deros, and the deathbed tale of Norwegian sailor Olaf Jansen, who claimed to have lived among giants inside the Earth. The episode also ties hollow Earth lore to UFOs emerging from below, secret chambers under the pyramids, Nero's hunt for subterranean treasure, and reports of underground cities and beings.