{"id":1843,"date":"2010-05-27T17:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wingate-richard\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:28:15","slug":"wingate-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wingate-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Wingate, Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard<\/strong> W<\/strong>ingate (1933-2011)<\/strong>\u00a0was described by Andrew Collins<\/a> as a \u2018maverick mineral \"richard<\/a>prospector and explorer\u2019(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup>. His search for Atlantis brought him to Ecuador where he was enchanted by the so-called Crespi Collection<\/a> leading him to speculate on a possible link between it and lost Atlantis. He subsequently shifted his attention to the Bahamas<\/a> where he claimed to have discovered Atlantean structures in shallow waters. He detailed his discoveries in his\u00a0first book[<\/sup>059<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Wingate published his second book, Atlantis in the\u00a0<\/em>Amazon<\/em><\/em>[771<\/a>]<\/sup> in June 2011. In it he returned to a further consideration of the Crespi Collection and its place in the theory of a South American\/Caribbean Atlantis. In support of his view of Atlantis he invoked the controversial Oera Linda Book<\/a>, Annie Besant, the English theosophist and of course Edgar Cayce<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

He also discussed \u2018ancient technologies\u2019, including his most startling claim,\u00a0that Atlantis was destroyed by a prehistoric nuclear war between the Aryans and the Atlanteans.\u00a0 He speculates that the Athenian army was destroyed when a Gibraltar landbridge <\/a>was shattered by earthquakes allowing the Atlantic to flow in, swamping the Hellenes!\u00a0 Minor details overlooked by Plato!<\/p>\n

Wingate originally put Atlantis in the Bahamas, but now he entitled his second\u00a0book as Atlantis in the Amazon<\/em> and ends up with Atlanteans being involved in nuclear war in ancient India. Along the way we have metallic glue, Easter Island<\/a>, <\/strong>Indian wooden flying machines and ancient lasers. All very confusing, to say the least.<\/p>\n

Wingate\u2019s ancient atomic weapons claim is just a rehash of\u00a0 the wild speculation from the 1940’s(e)<\/sup> followed by that of Pauwels and Bergier<\/a> in the 1960\u2019s and regularly regurgitated ever since(b)<\/sup>. Contrast the\u00a0last link and Wingate\u2019s remarks with the more forensic analysis of Jason Colavito<\/a>(c)<\/sup> together with\u00a0Dale Drinnon\u2019s<\/a> account(d)<\/span><\/sup>. The late Philip Coppens <\/a>also wrote a fairly balanced article(<\/sup>f<\/sup>)<\/sup> on the subject ancient nuclear weaponry.<\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.andrewcollins.com\/page\/articles\/stones.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com\/index.php?topic=30407.0<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/the-case-of-the-false-quotes.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200215124027\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2324\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/147538214?searchTerm=Atlantis discovered&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc<\/a><\/p>\n

(f) <\/sup>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200225034114\/https:\/\/www.eyeofthepsychic.com\/bestevidence\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Wingate (1933-2011)\u00a0was described by Andrew Collins as a \u2018maverick mineral prospector and explorer\u2019(a). His search for Atlantis brought him to Ecuador where he was enchanted by the so-called Crespi Collection leading him to speculate on a possible link between it and lost Atlantis. He subsequently shifted his attention to the Bahamas where he claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,1520,2003,137,162,563,389,82,174,35,1266,52,3443,371,1565],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-collins","tag-annie-besant","tag-aryans","tag-bahamas","tag-crespi-colection","tag-dale-drinnon","tag-easter-island","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-gibraltar-landbridge","tag-india","tag-jason-colavito","tag-oera-linda-book","tag-pauwels-and-bergier","tag-philip-coppens","tag-richard-wingate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65189,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/65189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}