UFC featherweight (soon to be bantamweight) Bryce Mitchell has once again stirred controversy, doubling down on a tangled web of theories that includes adrenochrome harvesting, reptilian overlords, and most persistently, the belief that Antarctica is a government-controlled hoax designed to conceal the Earth’s true shape. But while Mitchell insists that exploring the icy continent would get you killed, actual flat earthers recently returned from Antarctica — and admitted they were wrong.
This contradiction lies at the heart of a broader story, one in which Mitchell’s worldview merges scripture, pseudoscience, and social paranoia into a deeply personal cosmology. The UFC star has been airing these beliefs on The Simple Man Podcast, where each theory seems to reinforce the others in a loop of conspiratorial certainty.
Antarctica and the Edge of the World
Central to Mitchell’s cosmology is the claim that Antarctica is not a continent at the bottom of a spinning globe, but a 200-foot-tall ice wall encircling the flat Earth — a boundary to the known world that governments strictly guard.
“You can’t go. They’ll kill you if you go over there,” Mitchell stated flatly, referring to the Antarctic Treaty.
In his view, the multinational agreement exists not to protect the environment but to suppress the truth: that the Earth is flat and covered by a dome, or “firmament,” as described in the Bible.
“There’s no South Pole,” Mitchell insisted. “There never has been and never will be.”
But this narrative took a major hit when a group of flat earthers traveled to Antarctica in December 2024 to test their theories — and returned convinced the globe is real. The “Final Experiment” witnessed the 24-hour sun, a phenomenon impossible on a flat Earth model. Even among true believers, some admitted, “Sometimes you are wrong.”
Flat Earth, Flat Certainty
Mitchell’s flat Earth beliefs go far beyond topography. For him, the idea that Earth is a stationary, flat plane beneath a dome has spiritual significance. He links it directly to Christianity and interprets biblical verses as literal geographic truth.
“Heaven up, hell down — that can’t happen on a globe,” he said. “Only on a flat plane.”
In his words, flat Earth theory is “the first domino,” the awakening that leads to rejecting evolution, NASA, gravity, and every other pillar of modern science.
“Once you go flat, you don’t go back,” he declared.
He believes that rejecting the globe model affirms divine creation and undermines the “Satanic” narrative of random evolution.
Evolution Denial and Chromosome Confusion
That worldview extends into Mitchell’s rejection of human evolution. He argues that humans could not have descended from chimpanzees because of differing chromosome counts, despite long-established scientific explanations for how chromosome fusion occurred in human ancestry.
He accepts evolution on a superficial level when convenient — like dogs evolving from wolves — but insists that such changes stay within fixed “kinds,” in line with a young-earth creationist view. In his mind, humanity was created exactly as described in Genesis.
“I know what happened in the beginning and I know what happens in the end,” he said.
He grounds his rejection of evolutionary biology in scripture, not science.
Adrenochrome, Satanic Elites, and the Children
No modern pseudoscientific theory ecosystem is complete without mention of adrenochrome — and Mitchell is all in.
In a disturbing segment of the podcast, he claimed that elites are using children to extract the compound adrenochrome from their blood.
“It has a healing effect on the body,” Mitchell claimed. “It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s a scientific medical fact.”
Despite the complete lack of evidence and the origins of adrenochrome claims in satire and internet fiction.
The myth got a big boost from Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1971), where adrenochrome is described as a powerful hallucinogen — this was fictional and never meant to be taken literally.
Mitchell framed the alleged practice as part of a vast Satanic ritual to defile God and maintain elite power.
“They’re drinking their blood. And they’re doing it to worship Satan,” he said without hesitation.
Reptilians Beneath Our Feet
Adding to his already stacked list of theories, Mitchell suggested that reptilian creatures live underground — a claim borrowed from the fringes of UFO lore.
“They’re not from space,” he explained. “They live beneath us.”
In his view, the reptilian theory fits perfectly with his denial of space exploration. NASA, he claims, is not merely lying about space — it’s part of a satanic system designed to divert people from the truth: that the real mysteries lie under our feet, not among the stars.
The Laser Fire in Hawaii
Mitchell’s distrust of official narratives doesn’t stop at science or religion. He claimed that the tragic wildfires in Hawaii were not caused by natural forces, but by a directed energy weapon — a laser fired from a plane.
“You can either believe Bryce or you can believe that a hurricane started those fires,” he said, alleging a systematic government effort to depopulate and privatize land. “They isolated that island and burned it down. And then they took the land that they wanted.”
As with many of his claims, no credible evidence has been presented to support this. But for Mitchell, the pattern of control — of lies, deception, and hidden truths — overrides the need for verification.
The Spiritual War Beneath It All
At the root of Mitchell’s conspiracies is a spiritual war: good versus evil, God versus Satan. Whether it’s flat Earth, adrenochrome, or the theory that gravity doesn’t exist, Mitchell’s beliefs are not just claims about the world — they’re theological.
“The real reason they lie about all this is to hide God,” he stated. “If people knew the Earth was flat, everyone would believe in God.”
Ironically, while Mitchell insists that no one can go to Antarctica without being killed, actual flat earthers have now been there and lived to tell the tale — conceding that the globe, not the ice wall, is real.
Mitchell may not accept their findings. But in the reality most people share, the ice wall has melted under the light of the midnight sun.
