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#49 --- The following can be found on page 32 of the August, 1962 issue of “SEARCH” magazine:

   "...And Dick Shaver should be interested in Salamahowich, one time chief of the Shoshones who is alleged to have entered a huge cave in the Goose Creek Mts., where he was confronted by a giant who claimed to be the guardian of the Shoshones and would continue in that capacity only so long as they obey his codes, among which terms no human should ever again enter the cave, and Salamahowich's people should dance in his (the giant's) honor (the Neg-ga-kin "fandango" still being danced by present day Shoshones) whenever they heard him strike the "silver boulder" at the caves entrance."

 

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#50 --- The following unusual story appeared on page 71 of the November, 1958 issue of FATE magazine:

    "One of the most baffling disappearance cases on record centers around a truck coal mine three miles east of Pikeville on Chloe Creek in Pike County, Ky. On a warm day in September, 1949, Marvin Johnson, 20, and his cousin, George Johnson, 19, were working at the mine with their fathers, (including) Tom Johnson, Sr. They ignited the fuse to a charge of black powder to loosen a coal seam. Then they left the mine to eat their lunches, and await the blast. They heard the muffled explosion and, after waiting until the smoke had cleared away, the two boys started toward the mine entrance to resume shoveling. They carried an old-fashioned carbide cap lamp, which later was found unlit at the mine entrance. That was the last their fathers saw them.

     "'They're in there,' Tom Johnson, Sr., said later. 'We saw them go in.' As the hours passed and the two boys failed to appear from deeper in the mine where they were thought to be working, their fathers grew alarmed. They notified State and Federal mine