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fetched as it might seem at first glance, because archaeologists have actually entered some and excavated a few of the tunnels!

    “These are in Turkey, according to Dr. Ron, Anjard, who is an expert on subterranean cities for PURSUIT magazine - the journal of the ‘Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained’., issue of Summer, 1978.

     “One is at Derinkuyu, Turkey, and nearby are no less than 30 of the vast tunnel complexes. They had bedrooms... storage chambers, wine cellars, toilets, and kitchens. There were ventilation ducts and some cities even had tunnels connecting them to other nearby underground cities in a sort of precursor of the Manhattan subway system! One of the cities had as many as 100,000 people. Artifacts found in the city at Derinkuyu village dated the site to 2000 B.C.

    “The floor plan of the cities couldn't be mapped in their entirety because a cataclysm caused cave-ins and flooding in the lowest levels. The name of the people who built the underground cities is unknown, and the names of the individual cities are lost. It appears that the unknown civilization was destroyed by the invading Hittite’s, an Indo-European people whose horse-drawn war chariots and bronze battle-axes were superior to the weapons of the subterranean people. Later, the caves were briefly re-inhabited by Christian Byzantine Greeks who were fleeing from Arab and Turkish invaders.

     “Anjard added that there were buried cities in France, his source being Erich Von Daniken. No details were given. He also stated that there were 44 ancient underground cities in North America, six being on the West Coast. No details were given, and Anjard's sources were anonymous American Indians..."

    (Also, from the same article...)

     "...Jets are probably not the cause of peculiar booming or rumbling noises that are heard in my own