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Harold T. Wilkins was a British journalist from the early 20th century known for making pseudohistoric claims about Atlantis, ancient civilizations in South America, and UFOs. He wrote numerous books on topics such as pirate treasure, ancient astronauts, and lost white civilizations in South America. However, his work has been criticized as pseudohistory and many of his statements were factually incorrect. He was also accused of plagiarizing some of his ideas from other authors.

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Harold T. Wilkins

Harold T. Wilkins was a British journalist from the early 20th century known for making pseudohistoric claims about Atlantis, ancient civilizations in South America, and UFOs. He wrote numerous books on topics such as pirate treasure, ancient astronauts, and lost white civilizations in South America. However, his work has been criticized as pseudohistory and many of his statements were factually incorrect. He was also accused of plagiarizing some of his ideas from other authors.

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Harold T. Wilkins
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Harold Tom Wilkins (June 18911960) was a British journalist known for his
pseudohistoric claims about Atlantis and South America.[1][2]

Contents
1 Biography
2 Reception
3 Books published
3.1 Articles
4 References

Biography
Brought up in Gloucester, the son of Albert Wilkins, an engine driver, and his
wife Leah, Wilkins read English and history at Cambridge University and began
a career in journalism. In the First World War he was imprisoned as a
conscientious objector. He regularly reported on the early television
experiments of John L. Baird, during the years 19261932.
Wilkins wrote a detailed description on the mystery of the Mary Celeste in his
book Mysteries Solved and Unsolved.[3][4]
In the 1950s he published books claiming that UFOs are hostile.[2] Wilkins also
wrote about White Gods, writing that a vanished white race had occupied the
whole of South America in ancient times.[5] Wilkins was also an inuence on
the hollow earth theory, as he located the descendants of Atlantis to
underground tunnels in South America especially in Brazil, he also discussed
underground tunnels in other locations such as the Andes.[6][7]

Reception
The anthropologist John Alden Mason has described Wilkin's research as
pseudohistory and noted that most of his statements capable of verication
turned out to be incorrect.[1]
A review in Western Folklore claimed that Wilkin's Mysteries of Ancient South
America reads like a science ction book due to its pseudohistoric claims.[8]
Jason Colavito has noted that Wilkins was a plagiarist. In his book Secret Cities
of Old South America he had taken material from Madame Blavatsky's Secret

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Doctrine.[9]

Books published
Pirate treasure
Hunting Hidden Treasures (1929)
Modern Buried Treasure Hunters (1934)
Pirate treasure (1934)
Captain Kidd and his Skeleton Island (1937)
Panorama of Pirate Treasure (1940)
Mysteries and Monsters of the Deep (1948)
The Mystery and Legend of Cocos Treasure Island (1948)
Ancient astronaut and UFO
Flying Saucers on the Attack (1954)
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
Strange Mysteries of Time and Space (1958)
Mysteries Solved And Unsolved (1961)

Articles
"Secrets of Ancient Torture Chambers" in Popular Mechanics Sep 1929
p.402[10]

References
1. Mason, John Alden. (1952). South AmericaFact and Fancy. Archaeology. Vol. 5,
No. 4. p. 254.
2. Clark, Jerome. (1990). The UFO Encyclopedia. Omnigraphics. p. 403. ISBN
0-7808-0097-4
3. Spence, Lewis; Fodor, Nandor. (1991). Encyclopedia of Occultism &
Parapsychology. Gale Research Company. p. 1035. ISBN 0-8103-4907-8 "The
most complete survey is that of Harold T. Wilkins in his book Mysteries Solved
and Unsolved (London, 1958; reissued in paperback as Mysteries, 1961)".
4. Begg, Paul. Mary Celeste: The Greatest Mystery of the Sea. Pearson Education
Limited. p.101.
5. The Pan American, Volume 7, Famous Features Syndicate, 1946, p. 11 "Harold T.
Wilkins Legend of a Fabulous Empire" discusses Wilkins belief about a "strange
white race living in lost cities, amidst the crumbling ruins of once splendid

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palaces and temples in South America"


6. Pennick, Nigel. (1981). The Subterranean Kingdom: A Survey of Man-Made
Structures Beneath the Earth. Turnstone Press. p. 82.
7. Wilson, Colin. (1992). Unsolved Mysteries. BBS Publishing Corporation. p. 160.
8. Kirtley, Bacil F. (1958). Irish Folk Ways by E. Estyn Evans; Folklore of Other
Lands by Arthur M. Selvi; Lothar Kahn; Robert C. Soule; A Year-Book of Customs
by Christine Chaundler; Mysteries of Ancient South America by Harold T.
Wilkins. Western Folklore. Vol. 17, No. 4. pp. 296-298.
9. Coloavito, Jason. (2014). "The Giants of Thera: A Case of Repeated Copying"
(http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-giants-of-thera-a-case-of-repeatedcopying). Retrieved 2015-05-12.
10. "Popular Mechanics". Google.com.

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