VISITORS: Brad Olsen (Esoteric Author and Explorer)

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