Mystery AtlasCharles Hapgood
American college professor and author (1904-1982) whose 1958 book Earth's Shifting Crust, published with a foreword by Albert Einstein, proposed the crustal displacement hypothesis underlying most modern pole-shift claims.
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Theories & Explanations
Charles Hapgood popularised Pole Shift Hypothesis.
People
Charles Hapgood influenced Graham Hancock — Hancock's lost-civilisation books explicitly draw on Hapgood's crustal-displacement hypothesis as a proposed mechanism for a lost Ice Age civilisation's erasure.
Charles Hapgood was criticised by Gregory McIntosh — McIntosh's 2000 study is the definitive cartographic rebuttal of Hapgood's reading of the Piri Reis map's southern coastline.
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