{"id":3343,"date":"2010-06-08T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bill-hanson\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:14:10","slug":"bill-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bill-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanson, Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill <\/strong><strong>H<\/strong><strong>anson <\/strong>is a fine arts restorer from Vero Beach, Florida, who has also written three books<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>352<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>353<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>354<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> on the Atlantis mystery. He contends that the Biblical <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/946\/\">Garden of Eden<\/a> and Atlantis were two names for the same place,\u00a0which he claims had been located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bahamas\/\">Bahamas<\/a> region.<\/p>\n<p>Most serious Atlantis investigators will be put off Hanson\u2019s writing by his insistence that Atlantis and the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bermuda-triangle\/\">Bermuda Triangle<\/a> are linked, not to mention his apparently blind acceptance of the reports of underwater pyramids off the Florida coast, such as the claim of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/brown-ray\/\">Ray Brown<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>If this was not enough, Hanson\u2019s credibility is further undermined, in my opinion,\u00a0by his support for the idea that aliens founded Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson has also completed a work<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>355<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> on the \u2018assassination\u2019 of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Overall, I feel that Hanson is inclined to depend on bold assertion rather than hard evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hanson is a fine arts restorer from Vero Beach, Florida, who has also written three books[352][353][354] on the Atlantis mystery. He contends that the Biblical Garden of Eden and Atlantis were two names for the same place,\u00a0which he claims had been located in the Bahamas region. Most serious Atlantis investigators will be put off [&hellip;]<\/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":[137,1231,468,383,420,2354],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bahamas","tag-bermuda-triangle","tag-bill-hanson","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-pyramids","tag-ray-brown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","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=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66754,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/66754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}