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Thomas Allen LeVesque
Thomas Allen LeVesque (1948-2018) was an influential American conspiracy theorist who promoted legends of the Hollow Earth, The Shaver Mystery, and Dulce Base. According to the author Adam Gorightly, in the final years of his life LeVesque confessed to fabricating his Dulce Base tales as a form of creative writing. Early life Thomas Allen LeVesque was born to Thomas Lewis LeVesque and Mary Louise Gimball in Lexington, Kentucky. His father had served as a radio engineer on the USS Baldwin; he went on to a career in electrical engineering in the communication industry. On April 18, 1951, at the age of 2, LeVesque was a passenger aboard the USNS George W. Goethals. In 1965, Thomas Allen LeVesque, age 16, was arrested in Long Beach, California along with three other teens; the four were charged with placing explosives in a public building. On July 8, 1973, LeVesque wed Mary Jane Martin in Los Angeles, California. Promotion of conspiracy theories LaVesque promoted multiple conspir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was still occasionally defended through the mid-19th century, notably by John Cleves Symmes Jr. and J. N. Reynolds, but by this time it was part of popular pseudoscience and no longer a scientifically viable hypothesis. The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as a premise for subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction. Hollow Earth also recurs in conspiracy theories such as the underground kingdom of Agartha and the Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis and is often said to be inhabited by mythological figures or political leaders. History Ancient times In ancient times, the concept of a subterranean land inside the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
