The Insane Cult Leader Who Lived Inside The Earth
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As the 20th century approached, our understanding of the natural world and of the cosmos was increasing at a more rapid pace than any time in the history of science. We were building on our knowledge of asteroids, the discovery of Neptune, and understanding the transit of Venus, and science fiction like Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was taking our imagination deep inside our own planet.
But one man rejected the long march of seemingly-irrefutable scientific progress. The cult leader Cyrus Teed was convinced that we weren't living amidst a complex solar system, and that we weren't on top of the Earth at all. Cyrus Teed thought that we were living inside the Earth.
Teed's Koreshan movement focused on the concept of a hollow earth, and he set out to prove scientifically that we were living on a concave surface inside of a giant hollow ball. From the religious awakenings of Upstate New York to Chicago to a swamp in Florida, Cyrus Teed gained converts who believed in his science and his religion. But did the rectilineator Teed built to conduct his painstaking measurements prove that we're really living inside, or did they just prove that Teed and his followers were insane?
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Yeah okay, you convinced me
I'm in!
Teed isn't dead. He's just slow at resurrecting.
He hadn't done it before so it makes sense that his first will take a little time.
@@aelolul Well, one did it in a few days. Can't be that hard.
@@Ceelvain i do it every single morning. hes just doing it for attention
He isn't dead, he would just not going back anytime **soon.**
_"People used to not know that mental disorders were a thing"_ explains a lot more about history than anyone wants to realize.
But then again, it's very challenging or down right impossible to diagnose someone dead long ago. When no one alive has known them directly, when they had a strong control on how they were talked about, when they never shared their true feelings.
They did, just used to call it "being posessed" though.
He’s gonna look like Billy off Hocus Pocus by the time he resurrects 😂
Seems like some still do not 😂
All of yall are wrong , their was but little mental illness compared today ! From the microwave , processed food , junk food , little to no exercising, ppl staying on their phones all the time with little to no outdoor connection, I could on and on their is way more mental unhealthy individuals today even in modern day medicine!
Just look at the modern day late 20 to 21 century today of genders magically turning into another is more laughable than the beliefs of astrology and alchemy combined atleast those were systems based on logic and not Muh feelings 😂
Wait this guy turned a Flat-Earther into a Concave-Earther?
I shall henceforth attempt this same strategy myself.
is easy to turn flat earthers into other things as long as that thing is not the real one. they are contrarians mainly. if 99% of the populations say that X is some way, then they have to say is the other way just because, but they are not set on the other way, as long as is not the way that the majority things they are game
Hats off to him for achieving the impossible i guess.
It's easy to get - more - wrong.
at least now he got the curvature right
Popular among women, so my first thought was “how long till he forms a Harem” and yup.
That and the fact that he called himself Koresh....
'I value you as individuals.' 'Nice, I like you' 'Wanna have sex?'
If you don't have a harem, is it even worth starting a cult? 🤷♂️ 😅
@@deparinge Makes me think of David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian cult famous for the Waco standoff.
Be serious dude. We all know that all the Magic Carpets have been destroyed.
"concave enclave" so good
was just about to say that :)
I was so delighted at that
I thought he was gonna say "inside their concave heads"
A decade ago I would have never thought Vsauce 2 would be the one to outlive the other two.
Despite the leader being a grifter it sounds like most of the Koreshan community were less gullible/stubborn individuals and more so individuals that saw the Koreshan community as an escape from whatever life they had prior (May it be a loveless marriage, abusive marriage, escaping persecution, or any other valid reason)
Isn’t that the clientele of most cults and scams? From my understanding, Most of the people who fall for scams and such aren’t idiots, but rather vulnerable people who are desperate for an alternative. Think of those with incurable diseases who seek out alternative medicine for even the hope of a chance, or those in severe debt who fall prey to get rich quick schemes.
The women who sought the Koreshan Community did so because they were desperate to escape their horrible circumstances yes, but joining the community also entailed assimilating its values and beliefs. By the end, I’d wager many were true believers, despite their original motives.
I can only imagine how satisfying it must've been to be surrounded by so many other women working towards common goals and the appearance of independence. And to maintain their own community and businesses, too... It reminds me a lot of the Peoples Temple. A lot of people followed Jones because of his civil rights and community activism, and considering the world around them, who could blame them? Cult leaders are most dangerous when they convince people who need help or want to help to follow them.
Most likely they were both. As others have said, that’s just generally how cults operate. They take in people who are suffering and make them dependent on the cult’s community.
That dynamic is pretty common in cults. Usually people who join a cult don’t do so because they were simply convinced by the leader’s arguments purely on merit, but rather that they’re in a vulnerable state and just want something completely new and different to believe in
Many run out of the frying pan and into the 🔥
I remember they used the "Hollow Earth" Theory in Kong: Skull Island.
ice age 3 with the dinosaurs kinda too if i remember correctly ( or was that just some ice cave? )
Using the secrets in plain sight. Hollow Earth.
so maybe we live on a flat earth, the other side is upsdow-down like the movie《Upside Down》，surrounded by celestial “eggshell”，looking as an egg hanging on a branch of Yggdrasill, with three "llayers like a wedding cake.
That’s from Jules Verne’s 1864 book, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
It's part of Monsterverse lore now.
You didn't watch Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong?
When you're in a giving existential crisis competition and your opponent is Vsauce
which vsauce?
@@tenrudyall of them
"Bring out your dead!"
"Im not dead yet..." 0:50
Im sure there are caverns that span for miles under the earth. And I’m sure some people looked into those caverns and thought the whole earth was hollow. But of course then you just have the nutjobs…
Kevin, thankyou for being the last remaining bastion of Vsauce
Didn't expect the philosophical musings at the end. Nicely put.
Just a normal Vsauce video: fun stuff -> interesting stuff -> more fun staff -> more interesting stuff -> existential crisis
I visited Estero in 1991. The story I heard there was that Teed's body was placed on a plank to await his resurrection but while they were waiting a hurricane came and took the body away. Didn't know he was actually buried.
No way! AAAAAAAA! I used to get popular science as a kid! I really missed it actually. This is huge. You're perfect for the role as well. Thank you so much!
I remember imagining this kind of world shape to explain how the maps in early JRPGs worked(they connected the north-south edges of the map as well as the east-west edges).
Toroid world!
23:06 And here I am, not just accepting it, but taking it in stride. Somehow, the enormity of existence sparks wonder, and a desire to expand our boundaries further. For me, existence can't get big enough. It might not be much of a surprise that my favorite stories are those set on incomprehensibly large scales, and still hunger for bigger.
Perhaps I'm weird. Maybe I'm not as comfortable with such tremendous scale as I think. Whatever it is, I am tremendously glad to have it. Suddenly, so many problems feel surmountable, so many quarrels trivial, and yet I can take it all in.
🤓
@@TheBcoolGuy Correct!
Maybe if you squint hard enough every hammer starts to look like a nail.
Dr. Mike just uploaded a video interviewing a man trying to live forever yesterday too.
I love popular science growing up. I’m so glad to hear you’re doing stuff for them. That’s awesome. Subscribed.
The bit on people who had faith healing more readily is actually pretty interesting ground. And by faith, I don't mean a specific religious faith as I'm sure he intended, but more of a motivation for continuing. Because we do know that a big difference maker with critically wounded or ill people is what happens when they completely lose the will to live. How many times has a spouse died shortly after their partner? In may ways having faith in something, often a duty to family, is able to preserve that perseverance. Speaking of soldiers in the civil war: it very well could have been that the belief that what they were doing was "gods work" did in fact recover more readily than those whose will to exist had been trampled by war. The matter of motivation is much different when all you see ahead is a pointless death vs believing that the suffering is necessary in some way.
WE LIVE IN A CONCAVE SOCIETY
Lol everyone who lives in his basement lives inside the earth
Living in your mom's basement and trying to form a harem describes most redditors.
7:23 he inhaled too much lead 😂😂😂
We live inside ourselves, for I am imprisoned by my own perception, therefore I am both jailer and jailed.
Ain't that the truth !?!
I bet that sounded really profound to you. All great thinkers are not bound by their own thoughts.
I live like 30 mins away and have been to the koreshan remnants twice, its so worth the visit
25:02 "We live inside the DREAM."
-David Lynch (Twin Peaks movie)
Does Lost Highway take place in the same cinematic universe?
Taken in isolation, it's a surreal experience.
Teed seems to have read one too many Jules Verne Books
If only he had internet porn.
I believe the earth is in the shape of a dinassaur
If I see more concave earthers sprouting soon, I'll know who to blame.
Really excellent video. Should definitely have more than 90k views
Love this topic! Good video!
I heard inner earth homes are going to be big this year.
It's been so long since I watch any Vsauce. It's like looking through old stuffs in the attic...
Teed’s story is similar to that of Samuel Burley Rowbotham aka Dr Samuel Burley (or Burleigh) aka Parallax. He started as manager of an Owenite Community in England then sold patent medicines and other cures. He co founded Zetetic Astronomy and he was a flat earther. He had quite a few followers, some of them wealthy women. No one expected him to be resurrected, though.
I think a lot of the success of cults, and the appeal they have for otherwise rational people, comes from an existential boredom; the desire to be in the vanguard on the cusp of something heretofore undiscovered. They want to escape the dread of insignificance.
wanting to be special or to know secret knowledge is part of it, but the cult or the leader promises to fill people's needs and that's what really draws people in.
Very beautiful conclusion as usual! Loved it !!
Always a good day when I see a Vsauce vid, thanks for the content.
My dude! It was always the way!! I always had a thought that you would be a hell of a contributor to PopSci - and now you lead it on YT! Let's go!
The topic of science cults reminds me of the Happy Science cult currently operating in Japan. The founder calls himself El Kantare, and the cult had commissioned both Kyoto Animation and CdawgVA, both familiar names.
Oh, but it is concave! There's enough undiniable evidence to proove it. His model is flawed, yes, but he wasn't wrong about the shape. I wonder what is under our feet, outside of earth.
Crazy part is that people as sick as him are still around these days, and many not so smart people are out there, and they fall for this kind of sick stuff to this day.
And it's not going to change tomorrow ;)
Nice vid, funny stuff!
Fascinating! Subbed!
love these videos
I used to go to the Koreshan State Historic Site in Fort Myers, Florida. It is a beautiful piece of land where you can kayak and it has the entire cult preserved with the buildings and pseudo-scientific experiments on display. It is worth the trip .
Thanks for the interesting video!
I really admire how he was able to seemlessly masquerade sex with him into a selfless act done in the name of the pursue of immortality.
True evil genius.
22:47 Actually, both you and Koresh are wrong. 🤣Although he Earth is round, - it is not a "sphere". The Earth is an ellipsoid. It is squished at the poles owing to its rotation, which is why another name for the shape of rotating planets is "rotational ellipsoid". The curious detail here is that we didn't know this to be the case with absolute certainty until 1911 journey of the "Nautilus", - the first submarine to travel under the Arctic ice which measured gravitational anomalies in the ocean. As an addition to earlier measurements taken on dry land by other individuals, using the same pendulum experiment - this finally painted a convincing picture that Earth isn't a "sphere" but rather an ellipsoid.
Oh shit I know where harmony, PA is
POPULAR SCIENCE!!!! That is awesome man Congratulations 5:10!!
I live about a 15 minute drive away from the Koreshan State Park in Estero, FL. Quite a few buildings still stand today, and there’s a beautiful Victorian style bridge that connects the community to the Estero River often used by locals and tourists for kayaking. People can camp there and visit the hall and shops still standing, and see the concave earth model that Cyrus used. The local schools use it for field trips and arts go there for the scenery. I highly recommend visiting if ever in the area. There’s even lore regarding this cult that persists to this day.
Maybe a few hundred years from now there will be people arguing over Hollow Mars vs Flat Mars.
Oh god imagine if this guy had twitter? He would probably be running for president if alive now.
SMH
Cyrus Teed may have been a tad unhinged.. however, his followers - called Teed's Nutz - certainly didn't think so.
this guy reminds me of that one guy from the german netflix show Dark
also the idea of inside out earth is a cool way to have both the sun and earth be the center of the universe
Which guy?
I watched “butler in a box” 5:21
For the first half of the video I thought the “Cyrus Teed Hollow Earth” graphic said “Crusted Hollow Earth”
This cult was so outlandish I had to double check to make sure this wasn't uploaded on April fools 😂
vsauce changed in looks so much
Camping at the old compound is one of my favorite camping experiences of all time
A wonderfully reflective end bit!
Last 3 minutes cannot be anymore accurate. Thanks for speaking what i think word to word. Thanks. And as always, stay AWESOME... 🖖
But we are living in something concave - our skulls 😄💀😅
6:35 yep it sprung up for EVERYONE else who couldnt make it as doctors even then 😂😂
Somehow, this is almost the exact opposite of what I thought the "Hollow Earth Theory" really meant, lol. I thought it was about the Earth's surface still being the surface of a normal sphere, but the inside was hollow. The real theory is even more insane than I thought!
No, the world is a torus, with Antarctica as the inner ring.
thats why the rectilineator has never been done again, because its "too obvious" what would happen
so that's why i suddenly got popular science vids recommended
Bro that music you're playing when you're talking about their new Jerusalem in Florida sounds like battle music from Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magica Obscura which is...really appropriate lol
So really, Dyson spheres should be called Keresh Sphere.
What happens when hollow earthers meet flat earthers 🤔
they cancel each other out.
@@sunderark oh how very atomic
Concave Earth wins and is superior to flat earth
We actually do live inside the earth if you attribute the atmosphere to be a part of the earth. You could argue that it's no different than that fish live in the water. The atmosphere is technically also a fluid.
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9:54 I knew it all along that name "Koresh"... I had hear it before! hahaha
3:30 Sing "Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb" 😂
11:13 wow, so much work for... whatever this is
YOURE BACK!
Koreshan state park is in the area I grew up in and it’s such a delight
..."an immune system response with the POTENTIAL for becoming jointly held womb."
(That's the best working model to explain the "here" I've found.,...)
He's back! yesssss!!
My own personal hollow earth theory is that there is a vast interconnected cave system across the world that contains an evolutionary offshoot of humans that evolved to look like the typical grey alien. Sort of like a human-axolotl, or more accurately human-olm hybrid.
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My mother was a park ranger at The Koreshan Unity in Estero, FL.
There is this Australian youtuber years ago, his name's Steven Christ. He had the same ideas as Teed and made up his own "cult" with him as the messiah, calling himself "Lord Steven Christ". He also believed in this concave Earth, believed in the Rectilineator experiment. His version of the concave world is slightly different than Teed's Koreshan cosmogony, where the Sun and Move are instead connected to a gigantic heavenly octahedron at the center of the universe, orbiting around it closer to this "shell" as if they were headlamps. He believed that stars were actually created through sound in this cosmic ocean above, inside one of the spheres, through a process known as sonoluminescence. He believed that glass shards found in Lybia were not tektite from meteor impacts but rather bits of the glass sphere 100km above us that broke during the Flood. He believed himself to be the return of Christ, a new messiah, he made a seal for himself with intricate symbolism.
His videos are sometimes laced with a layer of ASMR that just lulls you as he explains his crazy world to you. He made surprisingly good and really well thought 3D animated models of this concave world. I am not sure where he is now, apparently he was arrested for some shit, I mean people like him are destined (like Teed) to get into brawls or some other illegal activity and end up facing the justice system. His followers still believe he would return, be released from jail, but so far we know nothing of his whereabouts as far as I'm concerned.
As a kid, while I didn't believe in his ideas thankfully, I still found them fascinating, it's such a novel way of "worlbuilding" a very interesting take on the universe and the way he showed it is just astounding... dangerously astounding... Search up "Lord Steven Christ" or his most popular video that introduced me to him: "Welcome to the Real World".
He definitely followed in Teed's footsteps, albeit not going into this whole immortality thing, he predicted the end of the world and that he would save those who follow him: an eclipse would have occured above Australia but instead of moving it stayed there, slowly scorching the rest of the world while in the Moon's shadow, at Uluru rock, a "space" elevator would have been built to bring humans to the firmament and recreate civilization. I think the date he predicted was in 2017 so obviously that never happened.
Please for the love of god Keven, Ask Micheal to come back.... Since he left there has been a hole in my life.... The perspectives he offered changed my life :[.... Ill pay him per video what I can....
I haven't been seeing these videos on my feed
I've looked up worse than the rectilineator
YESSSS HE'S BACK
This reminds me a lot of a book from around the 50s my grandpa found secondhand. It was called ‘the hollow earth’ and it seemed to make a genuine argument that the earth was actually hollow and that the poles had deep holes in them where you could enter the inner earth, which was always warm and had giant fertile crops, as well as a giant race of people. Apparently this had all been reported by a pilot who flew into the core. It was nonsense, obviously, but it was strange to see how earnestly this was presented as scientific fact. I wonder if it was associated with this guy at all.
That is such a cool story and i loved listening to it but now i have an insatiable craving for italian food. That reasturant looked great 🍝
I just order the book about his life. Another strange aspect of Florida history. Also interesting is "Warm Mineral Springs" a place in Florida that is most likely to be the Fountain of Youth.
23:11 Does anyone know the name of this bg music?
6:14 NOOOOOOO you killed him!!!
7:25 Interestingly, it's actually possible to do that now! .. in very small amounts .. like on the molecular level .. I believe i a particle collider .. But we can all agree there was no particle colliders in Chicago at that time!! ..
Boron is a trace element found in avacados, he just misspelled it. Long live lord Karrish
I live near the Koreshan park. It's pretty interesting.
When calculating trajectories over a long distance with cannonballs it matters not if you use the Concave or Convex surface model...the results are exactly the same
Sapient observations there at the end
We all live in a yellow submarine.
Or so I've heard.
Koresh cult wasn't exactly a hollow earth cult, they would have believed that digging into the ground would lead you to outer space. Hollow earthers believe in the place called Shamballa which they believe exists inside the earth, and would have believed digging deep enough would put you inside Shamballa.
@@TylerMarkRichardson weird... lol