Welcome to Season 2, Belieflings! We’re back in the Hole and celebrating the magic of the season by exploring icy mysteries and the hidden history of the north pole.

We begin with mysterious tales of tragedy from enigmatic Antarctica, including the strange disappearance of Carl Disch from Byrd Station at the South Pole. In the second half, we dive into Mercator’s mysterious map of the North Pole, which describes a magical and wondrous place made of vanishing islands, little people, and a magnetic mountain at the center of the north pole.. But was it real???

Also.. Inventio Fortunata Fever, John Dee Navigation, and Jeremy Loves Maps

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TIMESTAMPS:

12:20 | The disappearance of Carl Disch

27:50 | Crevice Mystery

33:45 | Patreon Stinger – Molly

40:00 | Mercator’s North Pole

01:02:08 | Patreon Stinger – Ben S.

01:07:38 | Expansion Preview

MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS:

• The Thing (1982)
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

SOURCES:

Tragedy and Mystery in Antarctica

Strange Disappearance of Carl Disch
https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy2/disch.html

14 October 1965: Jeremy Bailey, David Wild and John Wilson
– BBC
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180913-a-frozen-graveyard-the-sad-tales-of-antarcticas-deaths

The Mystery of Mercator’s North Pole /
North Pole- What is it really?

Insert in Mercator’s World Map (1569) | Full Res Map:
https://nwcartographic.com/products/antique-map-north-pole-mercator-1628

Map historian Chet Van Duzer of Berkley University
http://www.culturaspopulares.org/textos2/articulos/duzer.htm

Mercator’s Letter to John Dee – Earle de Blonville
http://earledeblonville.com/books/pdfs/2_Mercators_letter_to_Dee.pdf

Inventio Fortunata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventio_Fortunata

The book ‘Smokey God’ by Willis George Emerson [ 1908]
https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/mount-meru-is-there-a-magnetic-mountain-at-the-north-pole.102/

Hyperborea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea

Frisland – Where did it go?
Full Res Map Link:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Iceland_Coronelli.jpg

Pygmei Sinking/ flooding between maps:

Wikipdeia/WikiTalk – ‘Fringe Theory’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFrisland