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Hunt for 'Cosmic Manuscript' Stirs 4chan: Rare Book or Merely Obscure?
An online bookseller's two-year search for a little-documented volume on Hollow Earth and near-death revelations draws pleas for PDFs, warnings of malware, and a thread that wanders far afield.
4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board has asked fellow readers for help locating a book called Cosmic Manuscript by Dallas W. Thompson, which the author of the post describes as one of the strangest research rabbit holes of their career.
According to the post, the search began about two years ago, when a man claiming to be a 33rd-degree Freemason contacted the writer, then selling books online, in urgent search of the title. Scouring PDF repositories, auction sites, old forums, Yahoo Groups archives and the Wayback Machine turned up little reliable information, the author says, and even cover images proved elusive.
The post relays accounts that Thompson vanished and that the book was withdrawn because powerful people took an interest. The author states plainly that these claims are unverified. Other relayed accounts hold that Thompson lost his sight after a car accident, underwent a spiritual awakening, and wrote on metaphysics, humanity's genetic origins and Hollow Earth theory. Copies are said to have been offered for $100,000 to $150,000, though the author has confirmed no such sale.
Replies, 35 in all, were divided. Several readers asked for a PDF. One poster reported finding a copy for $40 on Amazon, or free on Scribd, and called such works a kind of currency. Another observed that a book being hard to find is no proof of suppression, noting that self-published titles often circulate in few copies. A further commenter said an AI tool had warned that online PDFs of the book were probably malware, and one anonymous user offered to sell a copy for $100.
Skeptics pressed the point. One poster linked an interview, said to be the one the author mentioned, and argued it discredits Thompson. Another poster, by contrast, suggested the author may have been a victim of a mind-control project, and tied his drone-company backers to DARPA. A link to a PDF was also posted, with one reader remarking that its page dimensions looked legitimate.
Much of the thread then drifted into unrelated and unpleasant tangents, and at least one participant urged the others to return to the subject. As of this writing, the question of whether Cosmic Manuscript is forbidden, or simply scarce, remains where the original poster left it: unverified.