
Wharton Basin, the site of the Wallaby Fracture Zone,Ĥ5. Hamakulia, near Hawaii, the scene of high volcanic activityĤ3. 2,4ĭavid Hatcher Childress, author of Mapping the World Grid observes “.we are speaking about an intelligent geometric pattern into which, theoretically, the Earth and its energies are organized-and possibly in which the ubiquitous megalithic sites are also positioned.” 5 The Vile Vortices on the Planetary Grid Vortices in the Tropic of Cancerġ2. He associated four of the five shapes with, respectively, the elements of earth, fire, air, and water and the dodecahedron with the earth’s prana/aether (life sustaining force). Plato theorized that the earth’s basic structure evolved from simple to complex geometric shapes the cube, tetrahedron (3 sides), the octahedron (8), the icosahedron (20), and dodecahedron (12), known today as the platonic solids. However, planetary grid systems date back to the time of Plato (approx. The work of the Russian scientists outlined a planetary grid that built on Sanderson's original twelve Vile Vortices (see figure 2), overlapping Sanderson's icosahedron with a combination of icosahedrons and dodecahedrons in parallel with many of the earth's seismic fracture zones, ocean ridges and additionally portrayed the earth’s atmospheric highs and lows, routes used by migratory animals, and gravitational anomalies as well as the locations of ancient civilizations." 2 The article claimed that the junctions of any three of these plates (62 junctions in all) possessed unusual properties such as advanced prehistoric cultures, unique wildlife, or other mysterious phenomena. 3 They postulated that "a matrix of cosmic energy" made up of twelve pentagonal plates covers the earth. In 1973, three Soviet scientists (Nikolai Goncharov, Vyacheslav Morochov, and Valery Makarov) extended Sanderson’s theory in their article, “Is the Earth a Large Crystal?” published in a Soviet science magazine. 1 Merging the Vile Vortices into the Planetary Grid Sanderson theorized that hot and cold air and sea currents crossing these lozenge-shaped areas might create the electromagnetic anomalies responsible for the disappearances of planes and sea-going vessels and the reported mechanical and instrument malfunctions in these areas. Together the Vile Vortices form the vertices of an icosahedron (a 20-faced polyhedron) 3. The remaining two Vile Vortices are located at the North and South Poles. Ten of Sanderson’s Vile Vortices are located in the earth’s tropical climates five of them fall within the Tropic of Cancer and the other five within the Tropic of Capricorn. In the late 60’s he focused his attention on ten areas that were approximately equidistant and were the subjects of reported unexplained incidents and/or electro-magnetic distortions 2. Sanderson, the founder of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, was avidly interested in investigating ship and plane disappearances linked to the paranormal. However, each of these twelve geographic areas is credited with instances of magnetic anomalies and other unexplained phenomena. The best-known Vile Vortices are the Bermuda Triangle, the Dragon’s Triangle (Devil's Sea), and the South Atlantic Anomaly.
Sanderson first coined the term, “Vile Vortices” 1 in his article “The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World” (Saga magazine, 1972).

Sanderson, a naturalist and paranormal investigator. Figure 1 - click to enlarge Explaining the Vile Vorticesīy definition, the Vile Vortices would be miserable whirlers but actually they are twelve vertex points of a planetary grid (see Figure 1) originally plotted by Ivan T.
