| This diary has become a piece of urban legend about the "inner earth." Is there a hidden world beneath the surface of our planet where an entire civilization dwells? Is the Kingdom of the Inner Earth the place where the Nazis fled after their defeat in World War II? Did Admiral Richard E. Byrd, muzzled by the Pentagon after his discovery of Inner Earth, finally write this diary in the year before he died because he could remain silent no more? This diary describes a world under the North Pole. However, records, including those of Admiral Byrd himself, show that in 1947 he was leading an expedition to the South Pole, funded by the US government for military purposes as well as for the exploration of the polar region. In another book, soon to be published at Filament, the story of Admiral Byrd and the Master of the Inner Kingdom does take place under the South Pole. This is an exciting story. We wonder what grains of truth are in it. |