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authorities, and within a few hours over 200 men were searching the mine's dangerous labyrinth of criss-crossing corridors.

    "The searchers found no trace of the boys. A pair of blood hounds brought to the mine found no trail. After three weeks State and Federal mine inspectors reported that they were certain every part of the mine had been investigated and that there was no possibility that a rock-fall had sealed the two cousins in an abandoned room... State police circulated a missing persons bulletin and police authorities in cities to which the boys might have gone were notified. But no clue to what happened to the boys ever was found."

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#51 --- Page 66 of the July, 1965 issue of "SEARCH" magazine gave the following legend concerning Lehman Caves National Monument in Nevada (on the east shoulder of Wheeler Peak.):

    “...If there can be houses haunted by the spirits of persons who had once dwelt in them - (and it seems necessary they must have had some special attachment for the place) - then why may not there be caves haunted by the spirits of early people who had once dwelt in them? Perhaps there are!

   “Here is an excerpt from an old fact sheet from Lehman Caves in Nevada (as reported in DESERT Magazine): ‘...local Indians who had long knew of the caverns... firmly believed that they were inhabited by a little blue-headed man who would spread pestilence among them and eat their children if he was molested.’ A former custodian of these caves was discharged for having “hallucinations.” He would run from the cave shouting that he had seen “strange lights dancing in far corners and living walls pulsating” like a stomach of some gigantic creature. Indians have been buried in the Lehman Caves, under conditions regarded as mysterious - for none of the burials contained the