'Flat-Earth' YouTuber admits 'midnight sun' exists after visit to Antarctica

A popular "Flat Earther" Youtuber traveled with a group to Antarctica in an attempt to prove that the 24-hour sun, meaning that the sun doesn’t set during the summer at the south pole, doesn’t exist. Instead, he said that "the sun does circle you in the south."

Jeran Campanella, who runs the channel "Jeranism," traveled with a group to Antarctica alongside other members of the "Flat Earth Team" and members of the "Globe Earth Team." The trip was dubbed "The Final Experiment" which "is a way to settle the shape of the Earth debate," the website stated.

"Both the flat earth side and the globe side agree that whether or not there is a 24-hour sun in Antarctica will confirm if we live on a flat plane or on a globe. A 24-hour sun cannot work on a flat plane in the south. And the sun cannot set on a globe during the southern summer," the website’s FAQ section added.

"Sometimes you are wrong in life and I thought there was no 24-hour sun. In fact, I was pretty sure of it," Campanella said, later adding, "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 find that out for yourself." He said that "I'll be called a shill" for making the statement, but "if you're a shill for being honest, so be it."

Campanella thanked the organizer of the trip, Will Duffy, a pastor of a parish just outside of Denver, but stopped short of saying that the Earth was not flat. The trip cost $35,000, per the Daily Mail, however, Campanella agreed to take the trip on the condition that he wouldn’t have to cover the trip cost.

In the summer at both the southernmost and northernmost reaches of the planet, the sun does not set, instead traveling in a circle around the sky and does not set in a phenomenon known as the "midnight sun." Flat Earthers believe that Antarctica is an ice wall encircling the rest of the world and believe the sun sets every day regardless of the time of year, with the sun circling the north pole.

Campanella was featured in "Behind the Curve," a 2018 documentary in which his theory was debunked through a light experiment. The experiment, which was set out to determine whether the Earth was curved or not, involved fences with holes cut out at equal distances from the ground. He believed that the camera set on the other side of the fences would be able to see the light, thus proving that the Earth was flat, however, this did not occur.