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   "Why do they call that rock formation near where the E.'s had their strange experience Casa Diablo - the Devil's house?  And why did the Indians name that area Inyo - dwelling place of the great spirit?"

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#35 --- The following are parts of an extensive letter sent to AMAZING STORIES magazine, and published in their May, 1946 issue, on pages 171-173; describing strange UFO - and “Men In Black” - type anomalies with an apparent subterranean connection, in a remote area between Hopland and Lakeport, Califoria:

   “Sirs... The thing that I am trying to say is that I think I can show you an entrance to this subterranean city that he has written about several issues back.

   “Here is what happened to me and you may judge for yourself. In 1931 my mother and I took up this section of land as a cattle raising homestead from the U.S. Government, and naturally it was not a choice piece; first of all, no one before us was able to locate the land even with assistance of maps and the land office, but we are friendly people, so a person who turned out to be our nearest neighbor gave us some hints and as the place was only six miles from his, we stayed at his ranch until we built our house. Then we moved into our own and all in all we stayed there about two years before we quit...

   “There are too many incidents to be told in one letter, the best one was the disappearing automobiles, which happened about ten at night over at the neighbor's place. It was as follows: the neighbor and we were sitting on the porch after supper when he saw headlights come over the hill to the fence then along the fence for about half a