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'Cryptoterrestrials' living among us? Harvard researchers suggest ancient races are hiding in volcanoes (www.wionews.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16379352

The paper introduces the term "cryptoterrestrials" to refer to an ancient human culture—more technologically advanced than our own—that survived the cataclysms and has lived since in hiding.

A speculative new paper suggests that advanced "cryptoterrestrials" could be living secretly on Earth or in its near environs, like the moon.

It suggests the existence of a bizarre group of "intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the moon)."

The study has been accepted for publication in Philosophy and Cosmology.

They suggest that one potential category of these beings are "human cryptoterrestrials," which are a "technologically advanced ancient human civilisation that was largely destroyed long ago (e.g., by flood), but continued to exist in remnant form."

Possible habitation sites, as per the paper, may be hidden within the Earth in places like volcanoes or deep oceanic trenches.

Astonishingly, this is nothing new. In 1993, Dr. Shirley Wright, known for having been personal assistant to Albert Einstein, claimed that the pilots aboard the now topical Roswell UFO crash incident of 1947 were "advanced human" beings living inside Earth.

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[–] sp3tr4l 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377209432_The_cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_a_subterranean_earthly_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena?channel=doi&linkId=659ab7ca0bb2c7472b39f4e1&showFulltext=true

There's a link to the actual paper, as this brilliant journalist managed to somehow not include a link to it, not even the names of the authors...

Further, its not even pre-peer review, its pre_print_.

Not sure where this person is getting the Journal it is apparently slated to be published in.

A previous version of the paper was published in the... Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. Which basically sounds like a quack journal for psychic phenomenon.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Lomas/publication/375553282_The_ultraterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_an_interdimensional_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_The_Journal_of_Transpersonal_Psychology_2023_551_43-98/links/654eb2a3ce88b87031dac7ae/The-ultraterrestrial-hypothesis-A-case-for-scientific-openness-to-an-interdimensional-explanation-for-Unidentified-Anomalous-Phenomena-The-Journal-of-Transpersonal-Psychology-2023-551-43-98.pdf

Yep, impact factor of 0.13

https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/about.html

Now this is not a fair comparison, but to compare it to Nature, one of the most read and trusted publishing journals that exists, well its impact factor is around 64.8.

So basically this entire article is garbage, and this 'paper' has only ever managed to get printed in a journal for spiritual quacks that believe in / study things like psychic phenomena and unity consciousness.

Basically Spirit Science level nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

the study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed...

This is important.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

A speculative new paper suggests that advanced “cryptoterrestrials” could be living secretly on Earth or in its near environs, like the moon.

I did see a documentary about Nazis surviving on the Moon, so this is possible. Also somewhere in the Hollow Earth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Here evidently is the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Lomas/publication/381041896_The_cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_a_concealed_earthly_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena/links/665e2620479366623a3dbaeb/The-cryptoterrestrial-hypothesis-A-case-for-scientific-openness-to-a-concealed-earthly-explanation-for-Unidentified-Anomalous-Phenomena.pdf