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fifty feet, but the noises became so pronounced that
the workmen refused to go on with it, and the whole project wad abandoned.
“Since
then many attempts have been made to explore the mine, but the experience has
proved more than any man is willing to stand a second time.
“Captain
Louis Sefton was at the head of the latest expedition to the haunted site. He
is one of the most prominent stockmen in
“They let
the rope ladder down into the old shaft, and Captain Sefton and two of his
cowboys went down to the bottom. All was quiet, and they had just started to
enter the drift when the phenomenon suddenly broke forth in all its fury.
“The three
men were hurled with great force several feet and thrown repeatedly against the
jagged rocks of the shaft. It was only with the greatest effort that they could
climb to the surface. Their bodies were covered with bruises and their clothing
was torn.
"’I
as not superstitious,’ Captain Sefton said, in describing his experiences, ‘but
if the interior of that mine is not an inferno occupied by hellish spirits I
won't believe what I see with my own eyes hereafter.’
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On page 47 of the Summer-1980 issue of ‘THE NEW
ATLANTEAN JOURNAL’, there appeared an article written by Albert Roger, titled
‘IS THERE A SHANGRI-LA IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS?’:
"A
report came out in the early 1940's of a small winding path that led up one of
the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado, I believe it was, and as the
path neared the top of the hill, it turned to
