David Hatcher Childress
| David Hatcher Childress | |
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| Born | June 1, 1957 |
David Hatcher Childress (born June 1, 1957) is an American author, and the owner of Adventures Unlimited Press, a publishing house established in 1984 specializing in books on unusual topics such as ancient mysteries, unexplained phenomena, alternative history and historical revisionism. His own works primarily concentrate on lost cities (including Atlantis and Lemuria plus pole shifts and the hollow earth as well as pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact), suppressed technology (Nikola Tesla and free energy and UFOs and ancient astronauts and anti-gravity and vimana aircraft), and secret societies (including the Knights Templar), plus more recently time travel and cryptozoology (yeti and sasquatch). Childress refers to himself as a "rogue archaeologist".
Born in France to American parents, and raised in Colorado and Montana, United States, Childress went to University of Montana-Missoula to study archaeology, but left college in 1976 at 19 to begin travelling in pursuit of his archaeological interests. After several years in Asia and then Africa, Childress moved in 1983 to Stelle, Illinois, a community founded by New Age writer Richard Kieninger; Childress had been given one of Kieninger's books while touring Africa. Childress chronicled his explorations in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in his Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries series of books. Childress's first book, A Hitchhikers Guide to Africa and Arabia, was published in 1983 by Chicago Review Press. In 1984, Childress moved to Kempton, Illinois and established a publishing company named Adventures Unlimited Press, which is a sole proprietorship. His company published his own works and then those of other authors, presenting fringe-scientific theories regarding ancient civilizations, cryptozoology, and little-known technologies. In 1992, Childress founded the World Explorers Club, which occasionally runs tours to places he writes about, and publishes a magazine called World Explorer.
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