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Name
  
Harold Wilkins

Role
  
Journalist

Died
  
1960


Books
  
Mysteries of Ancient South Am, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Secret Cities of Old South, Strange Mysteries of Time a, UFOs Attack Earth: Ac

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Harold Tom Wilkins (June 1891 – 1960) was a British journalist known for his books on treasure hunting and pseudohistoric claims about Atlantis and South America.

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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 1926—1932.

In 1931, Wilkins wrote a detailed description on the mystery of the Mary Celeste for the Quarterly Review. It was later reprinted in his book Mysteries Solved and Unsolved. In the 1950s he published books claiming that UFOs are hostile. Wilkins also wrote about White Gods, writing that a vanished white race had occupied the whole of South America in ancient times. Wilkins was also an influence 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.

Wilkins, in his book Strange Mysteries of Time and Space, wrote about the Mary Celeste, disappearances at Glastenbury Mountain, medieval mysteries, disappearing airplanes, ships, and people, including Ambrose Bierce and the fictitious Andrew Lang disappearance, claimed by him to be factual.

Reception

The anthropologist John Alden Mason has described Wilkins's research as pseudohistory and noted that most of his statements capable of verification turned out to be incorrect.

A review in Western Folklore claimed that Wilkins's Mysteries of Ancient South America reads like a science fiction book owing to its pseudohistoric claims.

His Secret Cities of Old South America was described by The Explorers Club in a review as a "crank book, basing most of its fantastic conclusions on the assumption that Atlantis and Mu did exist... Despite a long bibliography there is little dependable documentation in the book. It is vaporous hearsay.”

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 Doctrine.

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. Popular Mechanics. September, 1929. pp. 402-407.
  • Wilkins, Harold T. (1931). Light on the Mystery of the "Mary Celeste". Quarterly Review 257: 82-96.
  • History of the Talking Mongoose. Fate. June, 1952. pp. 58-69.
  • References

    Harold T. Wilkins Wikipedia