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Page 24 of Justin Hartley Moore's book, "THE WORLD BEYOND", refers to a tribe of California Indians, the MEWAN, who tell of an entrance into the Subterranean World which leads to a cavern where exist "other people". This entrance was said to be in some caves near a place they called Koo-loo-te, near where they lived until they were moved to government reservations in California.

 

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#65 --- Page 5 of the 6th edition of ‘UNKNOWN’, a newsletter formerly published by Paul Doerr of Fairfield, California., carried the following story (originally from Diablo Grotto News - N.S.S. - ‘Natioal Speleological Society’):

 

    “...3 Oakland miners open spectacular new cavern. Underground caverns so extensive a man would have to ‘take grub for a week’ and plan to explore for a month, have been opened here in the Tuolumne county subsoil by a gold miner's blast. The new caverns were burst open to gold-seeking men last week by three Oakland men headed by Ernie Byers, of this city, where he lives with his brother Clarence when he isn’t torturing mother earth.

    “Byers, looking for the main vein of the fabulous Mother Lode, set off six delayed dynamite charges on the evening of May 31. He and his partners had a shaft sunk 60 feet down. They heard a blast and echos and went to sleep for the night in their cabin.

    “The next morning Zake Goodman, the only experienced mining man in the group, groped his way down the ladder to the catacomb. ‘Hey, he shouted, something’s wrong! There’s a hell of a hole down here. I just rolled a rock down it and it takes half an hour to hear where it goes!’

    “Byers and William E. Miles scuttled down the mineshaft the, and found their partner looking into a gigantic cavern..."