A conspiracy theorist who has appeared in multiple documentaries about the ‘Earth being flat’ confessed to being wrong

“Alright guys, sometimes you are wrong in life,” says a popular Flat Earther.

To hear conspiracy theorists confessing that they are finally wrong in the face of overwhelming evidence, is a breath of fresh air.

In the flat earth theory it would be impossible for the sun to be in the sky for 24 hours in Antartica (Getty stock)

It is crazy to think that Flat Earthers still exist, although whether they believe the nonsense they spew out of their mouths in another question entirely, but NASA critic Jeran Campanella has spoken out on whether the globe is spherical.

Speaking on the YouTube channel The Final Experiment, he explains being flown out to Antartica for $35,000, although it would appear that his trip was expensed by a ‘glober’ – the term given by Flat Earthers to someone who understand Earth is round.

The theory involves taking a trip to Antarctica to prove that there is no midnight sun because on a flat Earth it would be impossible that the sun stays in the sky 24 hours a day… which we all know occurs during the summer.

“Alright guys, sometimes you are wrong in life,” says Campanella, who runs his own YouTube channel Jeransim.

“I thought that there was no 24-hour sun, in fact I was pretty sure of it, but I respect Will Duffy [the ‘glober’ who paid for his trip] for being a standup guy – at least in the way that he kept saying it was true, I kept saying it wasn’t.

Jeran Campanella confessed to being wrong in believing Earth was flat (YouTube/The Final Experiment)

“He said ‘you want to go, I’ll take you’ and brought me here… and it’s a fact the sun does circle you in the south so what does that mean you guys are going to have to figure that out yourself.”

Campanella, who has appeared in multiple documentaries about Earth being flat, continued: “Don’t listen to my beliefs or my opinion, it shouldn’t matter to you – but at least you should be able to accept that the sun does exactly what these guys said, as far as circles the southern continent.

“So that’s about it, I realize that I’ll be called a shill for just saying that and you know what, if you’re a shill for being honest so be it – I honestly believed there was no 24-hour sun… I honestly now believe there is. That’s it.”

So what is a shill?

One user on The Flat Earth Society forum explained: “Well if you look at it from a FEer [flat earther] point of view, you are posing as an REer [round earther] to undermine the “truth” of a FE [flat earth] and trying to entice others to the RE [round earth] side. This would make you a shill. You know that the world is flat, yet you are trying to undermine that by calling the world round.”

Over on Reddit, users reacted to the experiment. One person typed: “I have a suspicion that flat earthers are only doing this so that one day people might be exasperated enough with them would give a free flight to the space just to prove them wrong.”

While another added: “This is where I see much of the explanation for ‘high profile’ flat-earthers. It’s not really about proving the earth is flat. It’s about getting attention and everything that comes along with it. They are almost like conmen in a way.”

So there you have it guys, as we all knew… the Earth is round.