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Author Brad Olsen, whose books make up his Esoteric Series, joins us to discuss his new book, Secrets of Antarctica, and his case that Nazi Germany's occult research, advanced craft, and key personnel survived the war and went south. Brad links the Thule Society and the Ahnenerbe, the 1938-39 German claim on Neuschwabenland, Hans Kammler and the Bell, the Vril women, and the alleged Haunebu craft to a breakaway German presence he believes still operates under the ice. He cites wartime U-boat maps, Soviet files he says reached the West after the Cold War, and whistleblower accounts.

Brad also gives his account of Operation Highjump as a covered-up military defeat. He explains how he reads a widely circulated version of Admiral Byrd's 1947 warning about polar attacks, and he describes what he says was an American and Soviet standoff in Antarctic waters. Along the way he recounts the self-financed sailboat expedition that took him across the Drake Passage, presenting this material to a German audience, a 40-year "time loop" he sees linking the Philadelphia Experiment to the Bell, and his next book on underwater megaliths, including the Baltic Sea anomaly.

In this episode
(00:00) From travel writer to esoteric author
(01:12) An eviction payout funds a trip to the seventh continent
(02:48) Catching a sailboat out of Ushuaia
(04:00) The Drake Passage, and a quick word on flat earth
(05:55) Calving ice and a near man-overboard
(07:49) Why a self-financed expedition matters
(09:28) Pyramids in the ice, and Nazi flag darts the sea captains still hunt for
(11:23) The 1938-39 German expedition and the claim on Neuschwabenland
(13:08) Alleged motherships, Hitler's alleged secret speeches, and the hole near the South Pole
(15:10) U-boat maps to Agartha
(16:10) Tibet, Ernst Schäfer, and the Nazi search for an inner earth
(17:48) Mapping Neuschwabenland
(18:37) The Schirmacher Oasis, lakes that never freeze, and Brad's U-boat piers theory
(20:35) Did the Germans ever leave?
(21:46) Kammler, Maria Orsic, and Brad's overlay of Byrd's flight path
(24:07) Operation Highjump and Byrd's 1947 warning
(26:37) Greenland and Thule
(28:14) The Führer's convoy, the Hitler escape theory, and the Dönitz quote
(29:47) Enigma, the British in Antarctica, and the lost commando story
(31:41) An American and Soviet standoff, as Brad tells it
(32:08) The Antarctic Treaty and Brad's account of the "Battle of Highjump"
(34:04) The Haunebu and the missing planes
(36:30) The Orion file and the Soviet submarine mission Brad describes
(38:18) Black market U-boat maps and the Soviet files on the Ahnenerbe
(40:00) The Thule Society on the mission patch
(41:48) Presenting in Germany, and the discontinued Haunebu model kit
(44:53) Next book: underwater archaeology and the Baltic Sea anomaly
(47:32) A black basalt octagon and the Black Sun at Wewelsburg
(49:19) Kammler, underground bases, and the 40-year time loop
(51:16) The Bell and the Vril women
(52:18) Where to find Brad
Notable moments

"All disclosure subjects seem to have a conclusion in Antarctica."

On the Antarctic pyramids: "If one of them is built by intelligent hands, it's a complete game changer."

What German attendees told him after his talk: "Leave it to an American to come to Germany to tell us our true history in Antarctica."

"There's no such thing as a flat earth... Set foot on terra firma."

People, places & references mentioned
The Thule Society, the Vril Society, and the Ahnenerbe
Hans Kammler, Maria Orsic, and Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz
The Haunebu, Die Glocke (the Bell), and the Black Sun at Wewelsburg Castle
Neuschwabenland and the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39
Ernst Schäfer, the German explorer of Tibet
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Operation Highjump
Operation Tabarin, Port Lockroy, and Vernadsky station
Project Paperclip and the Antarctic Treaty
Wild Bill Donovan, whose papers are held at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks
Emery Smith, Linda Moulton Howe and her whistleblower Brian S.
Peter Levenda, David Hatcher Childress, Elena Danaan, and Nikolai Subbotin
Dennis Åsberg and the Baltic Sea anomaly
Kecksburg, the Philadelphia Experiment, and Montauk
Contact in the Desert, where this conversation was recorded

Find Brad
Website and conference schedule: BradOlsen.com 
Books, including the Esoteric Series: CCCPublishing.com
New book: Secrets of Antarctica: The Untold History of the Ice Continent

VISITORS is an Audio Wool original, produced by Byron McKoy. Theme music by Yawns. More episodes at frightday.com/visitors and audiowool.co