2.1 Strange Polar Expeditions and Mysterious Maps

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??? 🔥 Get Expansion Episode -Mokele-mbembe - Dinosaurs Alive Today https://expansion.beliefhole.com/2-1-exp-mokele-mbembe/ MERCH | beliefhole.com/shop ⏱ 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 Fortunatahttps://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/ Hyperboreahttps://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: Wikipedia/WikiTalk - ‘Fringe Theory’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFrisland