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Karen Michelle, 54, passionately thinks the conventional belief that the world is a globe is a lie spread by NASA and governments to control people.

The domestic cleaner and mother-of-four spends up to 15 hours a day spreading the “truth” as a flat earth campaigner on her online blog.

Karen, of Thatcham, Berks, said: “I feel I have got a mission right now and my mission is to help the world to realise that we live on a flat spiritual realm.

“People are waking up (to realise the world is flat). It is starting. People are meeting in public like a community.

“This time last year you might have found one or two tiny groups meeting up.

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“This year you find groups meeting up all the time in the UK. For some reason it has really kicked off here.”

Karen believes the world is flat and is surrounded by a large expanse of water to the north and Antarctica to the south.

She claims that the stars are only 15 miles away, we have never been to space, gravity doesn’t exist and earth is at the centre of the universe.

NASA and the world’s governments have know this since the 1960s but chose to lie to people to stop them exploring further, she says.

The long-standing conspiracy theorist became a flat Earther 18 months ago, after having a bet with her mate that she could “debunk” the concept.

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But after watching videos online she was “instantly convinced” the world is flat.

Since then she had created Sun and Moon, a Facebook and YouTube group, which has more than 2,000 members, with more flocking to it every day.

Her videos garner 10,000s of views each and she is constantly inundated with messages from fellow flat earthers and people wanting to learn about it.

She said: “They are lying about going into space. They could have told us we were flat then (in the 1960s).

“They are lying to divert us away from the truth.

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“We (flat earthers) are doing this for all the world to set people free.”

When the Daily Star visited Karen this week she demonstrated two experiments which “prove” the world is flat and gravity doesn’t exist.

In one she spin a wet tea towel above her head. She claims that if gravity existed the water wouldn’t come out.

In another she placed water in a cup and said the fact it sat level proved the world was flat.

She also claimed that if we were travelling around the Sun at 67,000mph you would notice it.

“Why when you go outside sometimes is there no wind. How can that happen if we’re travelling at MAC 80 (270,000mph)?” she said.