As someone who's always been the one trying to solve mysteries, I think a lot about what it would be like to be at the center of one.

To know the answers, to swear yourself to secrecy, and to have to take the truth with you to the grave.

Which is why I would love being recruited for a top secret mission.

I mean, look, we all know the government keeps endless secrets from the American people.

And truly, the only way to get a peek behind the curtain is to, well, operate behind the curtain.

If you can't beat them, join them sort of thing.

And I've covered enough cases by now to know that the best way to perform a top secret mission

is to make it seem like it's not secret at all, like it serves another purpose entirely.

Just like Operation High Jump did after World War II, did you know that in 1946, the U.S. Navy sent 4,700 of its personnel to Antarctica for

what they said was military training in extreme conditions?

Sure, they had a few other things on the agenda, like establish a base, see if they could

build an airfield there, gather some geological data,

all regulation on the books kind of stuff.

Or so they said.

There were a lot of suspicious things about this operation that didn't really add up to the American people,

which is why people began to question the true nature of this mission.

Some said it might have been to seek out hidden Nazi bases.

Others said it might have been a cover-up for research on UFOs.

But there are some who believe that the operation was looking for a hole, one that led to

secret civilizations in the center of the earth.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and we're back for another episode of So Supernatural.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and we're back for another episode of So Supernatural. Thank you. We've covered a lot of conspiracy theories on this show, but there's one thing that sets Operation High Jump apart from the rest.

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