Harold T. Wilkins
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Biography
Educated at Cambridge University in journalism, Wilkins regularly reported on the early televisionTelevision
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
experiments of John L. Baird
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube...
, during the years 1926—1932.
Wilkins wrote a detailed description on the mystery of the Mary Celeste
Mary Celeste
The Mary Celeste was an American brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872, in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned , despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able...
in his book Mysteries Solved and Unsolved.
Wilkins also wrote about White Gods
White Gods
White Gods is the belief that ancient cultures around the world were visited by Caucasian races in ancient times, and that they were known as "White Gods"...
, writing that a vanished white race had occupied the whole of South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
in ancient times. Wilkins also claimed that Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and has the meaning of "feathered serpent". The worship of a feathered serpent deity is first documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE...
was from Atlantis
Atlantis
Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....
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Wilkins was also an influence on the hollow earth
Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth hypothesis proposes that the planet Earth is either entirely hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has been shown to be wrong by observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has...
theory, as he located the desendants of Atlantis
Atlantis
Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....
to underground tunnels in South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
especially in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, he also discussed underground tunnels in other locations such as the andes
Andes
The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...
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Books published
Pirate treasure- Captain Kidd and his Skeleton Island (1937)
- Panorama of Pirate Treasure (1940)
- Mysteries and Monsters of the Deep (1948)
Ancient astronaut and UFO
- Flying Saucers on the Moon (1954)
- Flying Saucers Uncensored (1955)
South America
- Mysteries of Ancient South America (1945)
- Secret Cities of Old South America (1952)
Other
- Mysteries of Time and Space (1958)
- Mysteries Solved And Unsolved (1961)
Articles
- Secrets of Ancient Torture Chambers Article by Harold T. Wilkins Popular Mechanics Sep 1929 pp. 402-404.