CAVE AND TUNNEL ENTRANCES OF
Compiled by B. Alan Walton
#1
--- In his book "MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT
"Fuentes, who lived about A.D. 1689,
and wrote an unpublished manuscript history of Guatemala, speaks of the amazingly
large and ancient towns -- inhabited by an unknown and long vanished race --
found there by the conquistadores.
He
says:
"The marvelous structure of the tunnels
(subterranean) of the pueblo of Puchuta, being of the
most firm and solid cement, runs and continues through the interior of the land
for the prolonged distance of nine leagues to the pueblo of
“He gives no hint of the uses to which these
amazing tunnels - more than thirty miles long, on the basis of the old Castellón league - were built by these ancient races of old
“It may be, too, that the great tunnel of
the Incas had a branch - an underground way leading under the forests -
eastwards of
“May be, the fleeing Peruvians vanished into these mysterious tunnels and left only the whispering leaves of the trees of the dense green forests, as mute witnesses to their secret exits?"
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#2
--- This following Indian tradition appears on pages 8 and 14 of "YUPA
FOLKTALES", by Johannes Wilbert:
"The Yupa
Indians, who live on the Sierra de Perija mountain
range of Venezuela, have their own legend of the underworld:
"Below the plane of the earth,
according to Pariri cosmology, there exists an
underworld inhabited by a race of dwarfs - the Pipintu.
The Indians claim to have obtained their knowledge of this place through the
eye-witness account of a man who, trapped in a funerary cave, managed to escape
by way of the entrance to this underworld... the natural environment of the
Land of the Dwarfs does not differ markedly from the Yupa
habitat on earth... They are friendly, honest, peace-loving people..."
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#3
--- In his book, "SECRET CITIES OF OLD SOUTH AMERICA", Harold T.
Wilkins gives an interesting account of a lake that is often worshiped by the
native inhabitants of
"The temples and sanctuaries most celebrated
of all the Mosca (Muysca or
Chibcha) nation of the province of Nueva Granada,
were those of Sogamoso, Bogota and Chia, the lake of Fuquene, and
the lake of Guatavita, that is distant two leagues
from that pueblo, between very high hills; with so much beauty and so level a
formation has Nature created it, that the water stretches for more than a
league around. It is so very deep and so crystalline and limpid that a straw
that fell into it sent out circles even to the edges of the strand... “Humboldt visited the mystic lake, about
1830. I have already given his impression (in a page,
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supra). Eight years later, Captain Charles Stuart Cochrane, R.N., was there, and he tells a very interesting story:
“'An old Spaniard, sounding in the centre of
the lake, drew up with the lead a small branch of a tree, in the mud round
which was a golden image, worth 100 dollars. About the summit of the cone which
forms the lagoon is an ancient Indian road, now quite neglected and overgrown
with brushwood and trees.
“'On the edge of the cone we saw two of the
sepulchres of the caciques, hewn out of sandstone
rock. And there is said to be a cave connected with the worship of the Lagoon
of Guatavita, at the entrance of which is said to
have once been standing two golden figures, large as life. A Spanish soldier,
who first wandered to the place, cut off one of the fingers, when he was seen
and attacked by natives. He was wounded and hardly made his escape.
“'Having told what he had seen to a large
body of Spaniards, they went well armed to the spot, but found neither figures
nor cave. The Indians, hearing that a strong force was on the way, cleverly
stopped up the cave and threw the golden statues into the lake.
“'And as that lake is 1,000 yards wide and
very deep, those gold statues have never been found!'"
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#4
--- The book "THE MYSTERIES OF THE
"The Agartha,
that mysterious underground
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kingdom that, according to the writer Ossendowski, lies under the Himalayas, is now in
if we are to believe certain traditions. It was
perhaps this South American Agartha that Harry
Gibson, a Venezuelan pilot, saw during a routine flight in 1964, at the bottom
of two craters in the jungle somewhere between the Sierra Maigualida
and the
“It is a strange story, and one would be
tempted to place it in the same category as reports of imaginary kingdoms -- El
Dorado, Paititi, Moricz's
tunnel - if it had not been taken very seriously by two respected
archaeologists, David Nott Rofi Liverpool and Charles
Brewer Carias of Caracas, assisted by Venezuelan Air
Force and ten scientists from different nations.
“The craters are near the sources of the
rivers Caura and Ventuari,
and two mountains known as Pava and Masiati, at the edge of the Sierra Pacaraima.
The volcanoes have been extinct for thousands... of years, so scientists hope
to find plant and animal life in them that has long since disappeared from the
rest of the world.
“In January 1974 a first three-member team
went down into one of the craters, about a thousand feet deep and twelve
hundred feet wide. They brought back living plants and animals of species that
were either unknown or had been thought extinct since the Mesozoic.
“The two craters are connected by an
underground passage nearly a mile long. According to unverified rumors, it is
still in use, because traces of recent activity were found in it.
“So much for the openly
announced part of the discovery. The most important results are being
kept secret by the Venezuelan scientific authorities, for mysterious reasons.
This secrecy has given rise to private inquiries among the
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people living in surrounding mountains, whose local
names are Jaua-Jidi and Sari Inama-Jidi.
Fantastic legends concerning the mystery of the two craters have been
gathered...
“The region of Jaua-Jidi
is a dense, very sparsely inhabited forest. It has been difficult for
Venezuelan investigators to make contact with the primitive people who live
there. They shun outsiders, speak an unknown language and do not understand
Spanish. Half-breeds from the town of
"’Strange people wearing strange
clothes have been seen several times in the forest of Jaua-Jidi,’
one of them reported. ‘They seem unwilling to approach the Indians and they
venture only a short distance away from the craters. Their skin is the color of
yellowed ivory; they have big eyes, like a jaguar's, and long hair of different
colors. They seem fearful and run away whenever they hear an unusual sound.
They are thought to live at the bottoms of the craters and in vast underground
rooms, with secret entrances in the forest.’
“Other reports would seem to indicate that
the people of the ‘Kingdom of Two Craters’ are in almost constant contact with
space beings, but it should be pointed out that sightings of flying saucers are
more common in Central and South America than any where else in the world.
“The Indians of the forest say that at night
the trees on the rim of each volcano are illuminated by a soft green light that
apparently comes from the bottom. Occasionally something that looks like a
‘little round airplane’ comes out of the darkness, enters the green halo and
disappears into the volcano.
“Two or three nights before David Nott,
Brewer Carias, G. Dunsterville
and their companions came
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to the site, intensified activity by the flying
‘things’ was observed. They were as numerous as a swarm of bees but, perhaps
because of their distance from the observers, they flew without making any
discernible sound.
“The Indians felt that the strange people
were receiving heavy reinforcements, or else that they were moving out before
the archaeologists came. In any case they left little trace of their presence
in the underground passages, but enough to give convincing evidence that their
existence is not a myth. The Indians believe that the ‘
“In
“What is strange about the whole affair, in
which legend is mingled with fact, is the Venezuelan governments’ inexplicable
silence and secrecy in which the expedition's report has been kept.
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#5
--- Page 119 of Harold Osborne's book "SOUTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY",
tells of one of the legends of the Tupari Indians,
who live up the
"...Long ago there were no Tupari or other men. Our ancestors lived under the ground
where the sun never shines... Then the men began to stream out in great
hordes... Many men remained inside the earth.
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They
are called 'Kinno' and still live there.
“One day, when (most of) the people of the
earth have died, the Kinno will come out of the
ground here. But the men whom Aroteh had let out of
the earth did not find room in the same place. We Tupari
remained here, the others wondered far away in all directions. They are our
neighbors: the Arikapu, Yabuti,
Makurap, Arua, and all
other tribes."
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Similar
legends can be found on pages 265-266 of Daniel G. Brinton's book, "MYTHS
OF THE NEW WORLD":
"...This cavern, which thus lingered in
the memories of nations, frequently expanded to a nether world, imagined to
underlie this of ours, and still inhabited by beings of our kind, who have
never been lucky enough to discover its exit.
“According to a myth extensively disseminated
among the Caribs, Arawacks,
Warraus, Carayas and other
South American tribes, in the beginning of things sky and earth were as one,
and man abode within the earth in a joyous realm, where death and disease were
unknown, and even the trees never rotted but lived on forever.
“One day the ruler of that happy realm
walking forth discovered the surface of the world as we know it, but returning
warned his people that though sunlight was there, so also were decay and death.
Some, however, went thither, and the present unhappy race of
men are their descendants, while others dwell in gladness far
below..."
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#6
--- Pages 90-91 of Harold T. Wilkins' book,
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"SECRET
CITIES OF OLD SOUTH AMERICA", carries a story of a strange underground
city beneath northern
"The dead cities of gold and mystery
lie, as one has said, round the littoral of the old Maranon-Amazon basin, and
on the uplands of proto-South
“Somewhere in the north of this region,
running from the slopes of mostly unknown and unexplored sierras of the Tumac-Humac and the Parairaima,
is a great prehistoric highway known as the
“Dense bush and far-spreading forests and
jungles, beset with fierce Indians who use blow-pipes and poisoned arrows,
cover up much of this ancient imperial highway, whose makers may be coeval with
the old Atlantean empire of
“Deep within this region, at a point where
a number of affluents merge, and on the fringes of
that mysterious land of Oyapoc where lived the Conoris, or white Amazons of Sir Walter Raleigh's day, is
one of a number of dead cities of
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megalithic date (Compare this
following story with the account of another dead city in Chapter 1.).
“The jungle Indians, who
shun the place as taboo and sacred, say that gold ingots lie in the dust of the
dead city. They say it has pillars in naves of ancient temples and great
buildings, grey and weathered with extreme age, that blaze with gold and
sacerdotal jewels.
“Around the pillars and the friezes may be
seen many hieroglyphic and bizarre letters of no known race. One of these dead
cities, far within the forest, and near the slopes of the sierras, is
approached by a great stairway of many steps going down, between walls of a
towering cliff, to an immense cavern or subterranean.
“The stairway is cut into the solid rock
and is slippery with fungi and dripping with dank moisture.
“As one nears the bottom of the stairway,
which at this point is inscribed with strange glyphs, one hears the roaring of
tumultuous waters. A rushing river goes underground through the middle of the
subterranean into a tunnel of more than a mile in length. The roof comes down,
and over the lip of a great crack in the rocks, the waters rush into a catadupa -- waterfall -- at the bottom of which is a
maelstrom. None knows what lies beyond.
“Clearly, the spot is very dangerous. It is
probable that, beyond this tunnel, lies the dead
city... which is said to be about three miles long. The story sounds like a
South American version of one of the late Sir Rider Haggard's novels. Attempts
have been made by daring explorers to find the way into the dead city, where,
as said, is much gold and many rich jewels, but all have been baffled.
“Within the subterranean approach there is
a hole in the cavern floor at the bottom of which is
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a quadrate-shaped chamber, clearly of man's make, in
which round the walls are numbers of oblong niches. These niches are for four
fifths of their height walled up with stones neatly laid on each other and cut
by skilled masons."
Chapter
1 of the same book, pp. 23-24 carries a similar story:
"...Here is an account of one in a
remote region of Brazilian
“‘I hear of a place where three streams
unite and spread out in the waters of a large and deep lago
(lake). I am told that some of the "rare plucked uns"
among the
“‘Reaching the bottom of this stairway, one is
startled to find unknown glyphs, or, as they seem to be, ancient and unknown
letters cut in the rock, which is dank with the spray of the falling waters.
One passes into an immense cavern where the air is fresh and cool. Looking up,
one sees that the roof is pierced with ancient ventilation shafts, as it might
be of a Great Western railroad tunnel in the west of
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“‘...Inside the great cavern, under an
archway, one hears an underground stream roaring into the darkness, which is
Stygian. No forest Indians will visit the place. But if one can obtain a canoe,
one can paddle in the deep darkness to a point where the walls close in, and
the roof comes down as in Edgar Allan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, in the
dungeons of the old Dominican Inquisition in Toledo. Dangerous eddies appear
and white foaming waters roar over the brink of a whirlpool.
“‘...One of the war-time frogmen might try
his luck beyond, but he had better be accompanied!
“‘...Off the main cave a labyrinth of
passages branches out. It is anyone's guess what lies beyond the maze. But one
passage leads into an eerie mausoleum. Here, in wall-niches around, human
skeletons are walled up. Above each partition, however, peers a grinning skull!
“‘Who are these guardians of this
mysterious buaca? Why were they walled up, and
when? On a frieze, or fresco, over each
skeleton, strange hieroglyphs are carved deeply in the rock, or they may be
signs of some unknown and ancient syllabary. No one
knows if this weird buaca contains hidden treasures,
nor what purpose it served. The forest Indians whisper that, if one follows the
right path through the maze of passages, one will finally emerge into the grey
ruins of a city of the long dead.’”
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In
his book "THE COMING RACE", Edward Bulwer Lytton seems to support the
idea of dead cities underground which have been abandoned by the ancient
inhabitants thousands of years ago as they sought for other lands (above or
below the surface) where they could re-settle.
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The following quote comes from chapter IX of his book:
"...A band of the ill-fated race, thus
invaded (had) taken refuge in caverns amidst the loftier rocks, and, wandering
through these hollows, they lost sight of the upper world forever.
“Indeed, the whole face of the earth had
been changed by this great revolution; land had been turned into sea, sea into
land. In the bowels of the inner earth even now, I was informed as a positive
fact, might be discovered the remains of human habitation, -- habitation not in
huts and caverns, but in vast cities whose ruins attest the civilization of
races which flourished before the age of Noah (and perished with the flood),
and are not to be classified with those genera to which philosophy ascribes the
use of flint and ignorance of iron."
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#7
--- Pages 1-6 of Erich Von Daniken's book, "THE
GOLD OF THE GODS", tells of the remarkable discovery of a vast system of
tunnels under
"...To me this is the most incredible,
fantastic story of the century. It could easily have come straight from the
realms of Science Fiction if I had not seen and photographed the incredible
truth in person.
“What I saw was not the product of dreams or
imagination, it was real and tangible.
“A gigantic system of tunnels, thousands of
miles in length and built by unknown constructors at some unknown date, lies
hidden deep below the
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South American continent. Hundreds of miles of
underground passages have already been explored and measured in
“On July 21, 1969, Juan Moricz,
an Argentine subject (resident), deposited a legal title-deed signed by several
witnesses with Dr. Gustavo Falconi, a notary in
"’Juan
Moricz, Argentine citizen by naturalization, born in
Hungary, Passport No. 4361689...
"’I have discovered objects of great
cultural and:-historical value to mankind in the Province of Morons-Santiago,
within the boundaries of the
"’The objects consist mainly of metal
plaques inscribed with what is probably a resume of the history of a lost
civilization, the very existence of which was unsuspected by mankind hitherto.
The objects are distributed among various caves and are of many different
kinds. I was able to make my discovery in fortunate circumstances ... In my
capacity as a scholar, I was carrying out research
into the folklore ... ethnological and linguistic aspects of Ecuadorian
tribes...
"’The objects I found are of the
following kinds:
"’1. Stone and metal
objects of different sizes and colors.
"’2. Metal plaques (leaves) engraved
with signs and writing.
“‘These form a veritable metal library
which
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might contain a synopsis of the history of
humanity, as well as an account of the origin of mankind on earth and
information about a vanished civilization.
"’The fact of my discovery has made me
the legal owner of the metal plaques and other objects in accordance with
Article 665 of the Civil Code.
"’However, as I am convinced that the
objects, which were not found on my own land, are of incalculable cultural
value, I refer to (the next article), according to which the treasure I
discovered remains my personal property, but subject to State control.
"’I beg you, most excellent President
of the Republic, to appoint a scientific commission to verify the contents of
this document and assess the value of the finds...
"’I am prepared to show such a
commission the exact geographical position and site of the entrance, as well as
the objects I have discovered so far...’
“Moricz stumbled
on the underground passages in June, 1965, during his research work, in which
he was ably assisted by Peruvian Indians who acted as skillful intermediaries
between him and their tricky fellow tribesmen. Being cautious by nature and
skeptical as befitting a scholar, he kept silent for three years.
“Not until he had covered many miles of
underground passages and found all kinds of remarkable objects did he ask
President Velasco Ibarra for an audience in the spring of 1968. But the
President of a country in which nearly all his predecessors had been deposed by
rebellions before the expiry of their term in office, had no time for this lone
wolf with his incredible tale of discovery. The palace flunkies found the
obstinate
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archaeologist
very charming and assured him, after long delays, that the President would be
glad to receive him in a few month's time, but Moricz
was finally told he could not have an audience until 1969. Disillusioned and
embittered he withdrew to his subterranean retreat.
"The secret entrance to the hidden
tunnel system, which is guarded by hostile Indians, is situated within the
triangle formed by the three towns of Gualaquiza,
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#8
--- Alexander Von Humboldt's book "VIEWS OF NATURE", carries an
account of the subterranean cavities beneath
"...Besides the family of Astorpilea, with whom I became acquainted in Caxamarca (now Cajamarca), the families of Carquaraicos and Titu-Buscamayea
were, at the time I visited
“The son of the Cacique Astorpilea,
an interesting and amiable youth of seventeen,
conducted us over the ruins of the ancient palace. Though living in the utmost
poverty, his imagination was filled with images of the subterranean splendor
and the golden treasures which, he assured us, lay
hidden beneath the heaps of rubbish over which we were treading. He told us
that one of his ancestors once blindfolded his wife, and then, through many
intricate passages cut in the rock, led her down into the subterranean gardens
of the Inca.
“There the lady beheld, skillfully imitated
in the purest gold, trees laden with leaves and fruit, with birds perched on
their branches. Among other
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things, she saw Atahualpa’s gold sedan-chair (una de las undas)
which had been so long searched for in vain, and which is alleged to have sunk
in the basin at the Baths of Pultamarca. The husband
commanded his wife not to touch any of these enchanted treasures, reminding her
that the period fixed for the restoration of the Inca empire (in 2023 AD,
according to some sources/records!? - Branton) had
not yet arrived...
“Golden gardens, such as those alluded to (Jardines o huertas
de oro), have been described by various writers who
allege that they have actually seen them; viz., by Cieza
de Leon, Parmento, Garcilaso,
and other early historians of the Conquista. They are said to exist beneath the
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#9A
--- The following letter appeared on pages 168-171 of the June 1947 issue of
AMAZING STORIES magazine. I will quote a section of it here:
"Sirs:
...In regard to the underground passages at
“Separately, someday, I hope to present a
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treatise on why I believe the Treasure of the Incas
exists today near
“The floor is paved with tile. He wet back as far as he could go without
suffocating. The air is too stale and there is considerable danger of
cave-ins. The Incas were very clever,
but I don’t believe at all that they had the means to bore tunnels for
thousands of miles through the mountains. Rather, if they covered such
distances underground, it can only mean that their man-made passages were only
entrances into a series of caverns. After earthquakes in the hills and in
“Indeed one time in
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#9B
--- The following letter appeared in the Feb. 1948 issue of AMAZING STORIES
magazine, on pages 164-165. This letter by Mr. Rhoden appeared right after Mr.
(L. Taylor) Hansen's:
“My dear Mr. Star: In answer to your letter published in the
December issue of AMAZING STORIES, I wish to answer the statements you make
concerning my facts. You seem to think that I am not telling the truth, even
though you graciously admit that I tell ‘lies with ability.’
“First as to Pizarro's name.
I doubt if I misspelled it. However, I have always thought it should be spelled
with two z's as that would hiss so much better. I
have never admired the swineherd turned conqueror. Living so much closer to the
territory of his misdeeds, do you? Honestly? However, as the wish is so often
the father of to the deed, it is possible I did misspell Pizarro. I do know
better.
“Next, and the
most important fact. You state: ‘There are no tunnels in
“I believe that a part of this statement refers
to what I said and not to Mr. Gaddis. I admit of course, that parts of the
treasures were hidden in lakes. However, part may have been hidden in secret
tunnels for such tunnels do exist in
“Dr. McGovern, author of ‘Jungle Trails and
Inca Ruins,’ has the following qualifications: He is a Ph.D. from the
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Curator
of South American Ethnology in the Field Museum of Natural History, University
of London, and the respected author of many books.
“Concerning the tunnels in Peru, he has the following to say on page 438 of his entertaining ‘Jungle Trails’ while describing the ancient fortress Saksawaiman (or ‘Sachsahuaman’ - Branton):
"’Near the fortress are several strange
caverns reaching far into the earth. Here alters to the gods of the deep were
carved out of the living rock, and the many bones scattered about tell of the
sacrifices which were offered up. The end of one of these caverns, Chincana, has never been found. It is supposed to
communicate by a long underground passage with the
“‘One man indeed is said to have found his
way underground to the Sun Temple, and when he emerged, to have two golden bars
in his hand. But his mind had been affected by days of blind wandering in the
subterranean caves, and he died almost immediately afterward.
"’Since that time many have gone into
the cavern never to return again. Only a month or two before my arrival the
disappearance of three prominent people in the Inca cave caused the Prefect of
the Province of Cuzco to wall in the mouth of the cavern, so the secrets and
treasures of the Incas seem likely to remain undiscovered for the present.’
“By his use of the words ‘said’ and
‘supposed’,
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McGovern
here keeps his facts separated from his theories, as the scientific mind
should.
“As Mr. Palmer so ably pointed out, in his
answer to your letter, I try to be specific in my articles, and draw a sharp
line between fact and theory, no matter how plausible the later may be. I envy
you your residence in this
--- L. Taylor Hansen
(Well, there's one answer to Mr. Star, and the next
letter is another! - Ed.)
- [Note: The ‘editor’ of AMAZING STORIES at the time was Raymond A. Palmer, or
‘RAP’ - Branton]
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#9C
--- “Sirs: I have read EVERY issue of
AMAZING STORIES, since the middle of 1945. I have enjoyed the magazine very much, however, I think you publish too much bunk which you
try to pass off as absolute truth.
“In your December, 1947, issue you had a
letter from a Mr. Marcial P. Star, of
“Please understand: I am not interested in
anyone's opinions, I am only interested in facts.
“I do not care to attest to the veracity of
the statements of Messrs. Gaddis, Kaye, Hansen, etc. Nor do I wish to be
interpreted that I am trying to make a ‘liar’ out of Senor Star. However, I
believe that I may be able to offer information which you do not seem to have
available.
“I forgot just which tunnels Mr. Gaddis was
referring to, however, in all fairness to Mr.
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Gaddis,
and to keep Senor Star's statement from being taken in the wrong light, I feel
compelled to make the statement that THERE ARE CAVES IN PERU -– IN FACT, THERE
IS EXCELLENT REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE ALSO TUNNELS IN PERU!
“Senor Star makes the affirmation that the
Peruvian government has ‘never’ looked for said tunnels. I do not know whether
they have or not. I do know, though, that the government does know they are in
existence. I, too, have heard of the ‘falling stones.’ However, these sounds were heard in the
vicinity of
“A number of years ago the government
sealed up the entrance to this cave, after several persons had become lost
after entering it. There is said to be several exits, of which at least one is
supposed to be under the ‘church’ in
“In proof of my assertions I offer the
following: ‘Treasure and Treasure Hunting,’ and other books by Harold T.
Wilkins; ‘Caves and Treasures in
“At the time that I first heard of these
caves I wrote to the Peruvian embassy in Washington, and to the American
Geological Society, both of these sources informed me that such caves DO exist.
“I have a list of books on the subject, none
of which I have bothered to read. However, if there is still any doubt as to
the existence of these caves I'll be glad to write an article for AMAZING
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STORIES covering this subject.
“I'll quote ONLY irrefutable evidence. As I
said before, I am not interested in opinions -– I WANT FACTS! I BELIEVE THAT I CAN OFFER PROOF. ANYBODY INTERESTED?
“--- Joseph R. Rhoden,
Jr.,
(Well, that ought to prove something! At
least, we can definitely say that Shaver-type caves do exist in
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#9D
--- One interesting legend which ‘may’ give a clue as to how the Inca race
‘originated’ into
"...The first version tells of a cliff
with three small cave mouths, or a building with three exits, about twenty
miles from the present city of
Later
on in this book, there is a particular legend which states that after the
ancestors of the Incas emerged from the caves, they passed through two areas
known as "Apitay" and "Huana Cauri" while on their
way to the present city of
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believe to be the ‘birthplace’ of the Inca
civilization.
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#9E
--- The following letter appeared in the September, 1945 issue of AMAZING
STORIES magazine, on page 175:
“Sirs:
Near the city of
--- Miss Eleanore
Kramer.,
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#9F
--- Pages 95-96 of "THE MYSTERIES OF THE
"The mystery of socabons
(tunnels and underground rooms) is not limited to South America, but in
“At Ilo,
a rock bearing mysterious writing, now almost entirely effaced, is said to
reveal the entrance to the socabon that leads to the
lost world of the ancients. Powerful occult defenses protect the mysterious
world, where gold and precious stones abound.
“Such legends circulate all over the
country, and the Peruvians are particularly fond of them. It
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is
said that a vast underground passage goes from Lima to Cuzco and that the
ancient capital of the Incas is connected to the fortress of Sacsahuaman, which overlooks the city, by socabons forming a labyrinth in which the treasure of the
Incas is hidden. I can readily believe in that secret sanctuary where Huascar,
the last of the lawful Inca rulers, buried the wealth of his kingdom when the
greedy Spaniards invaded the empire and crossed -- the devil knows how -- the ‘uncross
able’ Andes.
“The entrance to the labyrinth was in the Moyoc Marca, a kind of stronghold
that rose from the center of the fortress. A priestly caste composed of members
of the Council of Elders had charge of the underground city. The network of
passages was so ingeniously designed that not even the king -- the Inca --
could go into the city without being guided.
“The heart of the labyrinth was an immense
cavern where an abundant spring had its origin."
*******
#9G
--- Pages 169-179 of Harold T. Wilkins' book, "MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT
"...It was only, says Madame Blavatskey, by interpreting the mystic signs - invisible
except when the sun's rays struck them at a certain angle, at a certain hour of
the day, in the old Sun Temple of Cuzco - that one might learn the secret of
the tunnels and how and where they might be entered.
“One of the approaches to the great tunnels
lay, and still lies, near old
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of 380 miles!
Then, turning southwards, the great tunnel extends into what, until
about 1868, was modern
“At a certain point the tunnel cuts into
and is intersected by a ‘royal’, inside which, with all the ingenuity employed
by the old priestly architects and engineers of ancient
“One of these pivoted, turning slabs, so
cleverly sculptured and invisibly hinged, conceals the southern mouth of the
branch of the tunnel leading to Lima. The other masks the southern entrance to
the great tunnel to the former Bolivian end. This former Bolivian corridor
(today located in Chili) runs southwards, passing through Tarapaca
and Cobijo, which are in modern Chili. It must then
turn eastwards, passing through or under the cordillera and, skirting the
mysterious
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here, in this weird desert.
"...Tunnels and labyrinths have played
a mysterious part in ancient civilizations in the regions of what may wrongly
be called the older worlds of Asia and Europe and
"...A startling clue, gained in a very
peculiar and romantic manner, to one of the purposes of these mysterious
tunnels, and which is directly concerned with the mysterious stone city in the Lancandones territory, of which I have written elsewhere,
came in the course of a chance talk between a very old Peruvian -- a Quichua Indian -- and the same well-known mystic and
American woman traveler, the late Madame Helena P. Blavatskaya
(also spelled ‘Blavatsky’ - Branton), who, as one
sees, was journeying through the mountains of
"’I keep friends with them, these bandidos’" he said, ‘and their Catholic missionaries,
for the
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sake of my own people. But I am as much a worshiper of the sun as if
I had lived in the days of our murdered emperor, the Inca Atahualpa. Now, as a
converted native and missionary, I once took a journey to Santa Cruz del Quiche (in
“Said
Madame Blavatskaya:
"’We
believe his story, as it is corroborated, elsewhere, by Stephens in his
Travels. Besides, a man who is about to die will rarely stop to invent idle
stories.’
"...One day, says
the Indians, the wheel of life, or cycle of events, will come full circle, and
the ancient people will return and re-introduce a golden age. (As one has seen,
millennial prophecies of this kind are common all over the regions where the ‘Atlantean’ Central and South American empire
once held sway.)"
*******
#9H
--- Pages 163-164 of "Mysteries of Ancient South America", by Harold
T. Wilkins, also carries the following story of an Incan treasure hoard below
"...In the archives at
“Carlos Inca, a descendant of an Inca
emperor,
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had married a Spanish lady, Dona Maria Esquivel, who
did not think he was ambitious enough on getting on as he ought, and did not
keep her in the style she deemed befitting her rank, or his descent from kings.
"’You may call yourself Inca -- a lord,
or
“Carlos, who did not rule his poultry run
in the way advised by old Spanish hidalgos, or, yesterday, by ex-Wilhelm II,
Rex et Imperator of
“She somehow found out that he knew where
great treasures were hidden. The poor Carlos was plagued, night and day, until,
to gain a night's peace, he consented to blindfold his wife, and, later at
night, led her out into the patio of the old hacienda.
“Under the cold light of the stars, when
all around were asleep, and no unseen eye was on the watch, he took her by the
shoulders, and, although she was exposing him to serious risk of prison, or
torture in Cuzco, twirled her round three times. Then, deeming she had become
disoriented, he led her down some steps into a concealed vault in or under the
fortress (the ancient Inca fortress of ‘Sachsahuaman’).
“He removed the bandages, and Dona Maria's
tongue for once was silenced. She stood on the dusty, stone floor of an ancient
vault cluttered with gold and silver ingots, exquisite jewelry, and temple
ornaments. Round the walls, ranged in fine gold, were life-size statues of long
dead and gone Inca kings. Alone, the golden image of the Sun, on which the old
Incas set the greatest store, was missing; but the lovely goldsmiths' work was
of the
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same
artistic creation as the gold and jeweled plants and flowers which the Peruvian
workers made for those wondrous gardens on the isle of Puna,
in the northern part of the old Empire (modern gulf of Guayaquil), where the
Incas retired to hear the melancholy music of the Pacific combers on the
beaches below.
“Don Carlos was the custodian of the secret,
and from him it passed to a successor. As Mr. Squier,
one time U.S. Commissioner in
“Even today, in 1945, the secret of that
vault under the Sachsahuaman hill may still remain
locked up in the breast of some descendant of the Inca. The last man of whom I heard in search of these treasures, was one
Tito Cusi Ticcapato, said
to have Inca blood in his veins. It was
in 1928, and he planned to accompany an American expedition to quarter another
ancient hill near
“He was also an inventor and sought for
Inca gold to promote and exploit his creations.
What struck his imagination, as he said, was ‘the fact, senores, that
the old Incas wall-papered their houses with thin sheets of beaten gold’".
*******
#10 --- Page 52 of the November, 1954 issue of FATE
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magazine carried the following story about a
mysterious ‘gate to the unknown’:
"In
March, 1954, a French Jesuit priest in Sorata,
Bolivia, told a strange story of an exploring trip he had made in the cavern of
San Pedro, on 20,000 foot Mount Illampu of the Andes chain (just east of Lake
Titicaca).
“The cavern must be entered on all fours
through a narrow passage which widens after a few yards and leads into an
immense cavern filled with stalagmites and stalactites. At one end of the
cavern is a subterranean lake.
“The French priest claimed to be the first
person to cross to the far end of the lake. After several hours of rowing a
small boat by artificial light, he related, the cave narrowed and gave way to a
trail barred by an enormous gate of wrought iron. The grille, he said, bore all
the characteristics of 17th Century Spanish ironwork.
“The priest tried unsuccessfully to break
through the barrier. He was eager to see what lay beyond, but he had to return
to Sorata without solving the mystery."
*******
#11
--- Pages 35-39 of Eric Norman's book, "The Under-People", contains
the following interesting statements:
"...There are many equally fascinating,
and unsubstantiated, stories of subsurface tunnels in
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cave, or an ancient temple will send a frantic horde of hollow earth investigators pouring into the locale. I have corresponded with several of these groups. Some of their letters read like the frantic scribbling’s of madmen. Others are rational, well written and fascinating, even if they are a bit bizarre. A sampling of this South American correspondence includes:
"...The well-known English explorer,
Colonel Fawcett, disappeared in the jungles several years ago. He was searching
for a tunnel entrance into the subterranean world in the
"The entrance to the cavern city is
carefully guarded by the Murcego Indian tribe. They
are a ferocious, dark-skinned tribe with a highly developed sense of smell. You
must obtain their approval before you can enter into the caverns. However, if
they decide you are not worthy to share the secret, they will seldom allow you
to return to civilization.
"There is a legend that the
subterranean cities were originally constructed by the survivors of Atlantis.
We don't know whether the present inhabitants are the descendants of the Atlanteans, or whether they died and there were other races
who eventually wandered into the cavern cities and settled there amid peaceful
surroundings, abundance and happiness...
“Another
correspondent writes:
"’...at first I scoffed at such stories
about
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mysterious tunnels and an alien
civilization beneath the surface... I joined an inner earth group for the
simple enjoyment of discussing outlandish ideas in a humorless, serious
manner. Gradually, I became interested
by the considerable volume of circumstantial evidence. I now believe the earth
is absolutely honeycombed by a web of tunnels that run beneath the continents,
under the oceans, and these passageways link the subterranean cities of the
inner world.
"’...There are many reports concerning
a vast tunnel called the 'Roadway of the Incas' which has an entrance somewhere
in
“‘There is another entrance to this
fabulous tunnel in the
"’Everything at Machu Picchu is an
excellent preservation... there are more than to hundred buildings constructed
from white granite... fountains... shrines... and gigantic stairways carved
from a single massive boulder...
"’...This was a thriving city. It is
intact except for the thatched roofs of the houses having deteriorated over the
centuries... and, the doors are missing... it is as if the inhabitants selected
a single day and mysteriously vanished. Did they enter the “Highway of the
Incas” and migrate to the
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inner earth?...’
“Was this correspondent brainwashed by his
colleagues to believe in the subterranean world? Or, was he a skeptical man who changed his
mind in the face of a tremendous amount of information? His mention of the
'Highway of the Incas' strikes a familiar note among the hollow earth
fraternity. A physician in
"’...I have always been intrigued by
the unknown and please convey my thanks to Dr. H--- for providing this
opportunity to publish my views. I am of the belief that there are two
subterranean worlds. The cavern cities exist in cavities within the
earth's-crust. There is a larger, more populous civilization in the hollow
center of the earth and entrance to that new land is made through openings in
the north and south poles.
"...I started to investigate the
'Highway of the Incas' when I was a young, curious youth and I have hundreds of
witnessed, notarized statements. These
documents and tape recordings fill one room of my home. The Incas knew of the
tunnel and although gold was of little value to them, they hid their treasures
in these caverns to keep it from the greedy Spanish conquerors. “No one has provided a satisfactory
explanation for their mysterious disappearance. There was an empire of several
million people that vanished from the surface of the earth. They entered the
tunnel and left the Quechua Indians behind. As few Incas have been seen since
then, they possibly took up residence in a cavern city or followed the tunnel
to the interior of the earth.
"...The 'Highway' is the largest of the
tunnels and it connects all continents. In addition to the
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openings in South America, there are entrances in
"...I also suggest that you explore the
'highways' which have been found in the oceans.
These ancient underworld civilizations may be mining our seas!"
*******
#12
--- Page 4 of the 1980 issue of the ‘UFO ANNUAL’
magazine carried the following strange report under the heading, "CAVE
MARTIANS":
"...The residents of the town of Xucurus, some 90 miles from Buenos Aires, Argentina, claim
that men nine feet tall, green, with antennas on their head, and square legs,
are seen daily leaving a cave. The cave
was found last February, when agriculturalist Gerardo Cordeiro
dreamed he would find a treasure if he went to a certain place. Not uncovering
gold or jewels, Cordeiro found a cave with nine
connecting tunnels with strange inscriptions on the walls.
“The place is now being visited by hundreds
of people from the town and nearby locales, who expect to find ‘treasure’ or
see the ‘Martians’ (robots!? - Branton) who, according
to witnesses, resemble enormous ‘portable radios’.”
*******
#13
--- John Goodwin’s book, “OCCULT
"...Milinko
S. Stevic, a Yugoslav-born engineer
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currently (at the time of this
writing...) lecturing on the
“These underground cities are connected with
each other by a system of tunnels."
*******
#14
--- The following story appeared on page 51 of Timothy Green
"...Another explorer visited a similar
tunnel near Gaspar, Santa Catarina, and behind a
wonderful (underground) fruit orchard, saw a subterranean woman with a child in
her arms reading to it aloud from a huge book written in an unknown language (Atlantean?).
“After she read every sentence, the child
repeated the same and in this way was taught how to read. All of these
subterranean cities are illuminated by a strange light."
*******
#15
--- Page 50 of this same book carries the
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following account:
"...Our explorer, J. D. (name on file)
who is a mountain guide of the Mystery Mountain near Joinville (where there is
supposed to be an entrance) said that, several times, he saw a huge luminous
flying saucer ascend from the tunnel opening that leads to a subterranean city
inside this mountain, in which he heard the beautiful choral singing of men and
women, and also heard the ‘canto galo’ (rooster
crowing), a universal symbol indicating the existence of subterranean cities in
Brazil.
“He said that the saucer was so luminous
that it lit up the night sky and converted it into daylight. On one occasion he
met a group of subterranean men outside the tunnel. They were short, stocky,
with reddish beards and long hair, and very muscular. When he tried to approach
them, they vanished. Often he saw
strange illuminations in this area at night which were probably produced by
flying saucers.
“(We use the name, ‘
“Throughout my many years of research I
have accumulated a vast amount of data which would indicate that these
entrances to subterranean cities abound throughout the region.
*******
#16
--- Pages 49-50 of Tim Beckley's book also contains the following statements
made by Bernard:
"...I arrived in
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inhabited by a super race of Atlantean origin, that existed in
“Professor de Souza told me that the great
English explorer Colonel Fawcett is still alive, living in a subterranean city
in the Roncador Mountains of Matto
Grosso, where he found the subterranean city of Atlantean’s for which he searched, but is held prisoner
lest he reveal the secret of its whereabouts. He was not killed by Indians as
is commonly believed.
“Professor
de Souza claimed he has visited subterranean cities, including Shamballah, the world capital of the subterranean empire of
Agharta. I then went to Matto
Grosso to find the subterranean city where Fawcett is
claimed to be living with his son Jack, but failed to do so. I then returned to
Joinville in the state of Santa Catarina, and there
continued my research.
“Just recently two of my explorers returned
from entering a tunnel near Ponte Grosse in the state of
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“These
same two explorers entered a tunnel near Rincon, state of Parna,
and finally came to a chimney-like structure with four chains hanging down.
They descended on the chains but when they came near the bottom, a gas with a
chemical odor started to come up and forced them to ascend. Obviously the subterranean
dwellers tried to keep them from reaching their city. (Editor's Notes: This
seems often to be the case)."
*******
#17
–-- Page 51 of the same book also gives the following interesting account:
"...An elderly man living in Joinville
once told me that he had visited a tunnel near Concepiao
in the state of Sao Paulo, and saw in the distance a marvelous subterranean
city with vehicles darting back and forth, evidently traveling through tunnels
from one subterranean city to another.
*******
#18
--- Page 51 of Mr. Beckley's book, “THE SHAVER MYSTERY
AND THE INNER EARTH”, also carries the following story:
"...Although the following report
requires conformation, it was told to me by an explorer named N.C. who said
that he had visited a tunnel near Rio Casdor and had
met a beautiful young woman appearing to be 20 years of age. She spoke to him
in Portuguese and said that she was 2,500 years of age. He also met a bearded
subterranean man. Still another explorer named D.O.,
visited this same tunnel and saw a child inside, who fled upon seeing him. Also
as he once lay in front of the tunnel
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opening, a man with a beard and long hair passed
over him and entered."
*******
The
following story appeared on pages 54-55 of the same book:
"...Apparently such tunnels into the
subsurface exist elsewhere in the world besides
“According to Prof. Wiers,
just before the beginning of the second world war,
both the axis and allied powers were interested in using various caves as
supply bases, and for many military applications.
“Prof. Schwartz at one time had stated that
he knew of a Nazi who had come upon an ‘enormous circular pit’ (in
“Returning later with others he eventually
discovered a similar but much narrower bore, or shaft, not far from the first,
which was so big that it could not be hidden in any way. Not having cable or
apparatus with which to let down a man in the seemingly bottomless shaft, they
let down a pencil attached to a rope. To their surprise, the cord, when drawn
back up was found to be cut clean,
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as with a knife, or scissors - and the pencil was
gone. Of course they all resolved to come back to study this pit further but
the war prevented their doing so.
“The location of this shaft is supposedly in
northern
*******
Pages
26-30 of Timothy Green
"...One of the most controversial
figures in the UFO and occult fields is Dr. Raymond Bernard. He is
controversial not only for his research on the inner earth, but for his
mysterious disappearance as well.
“Since most of the readers of this work will
have already read Bernard's landmark book, ‘THE HOLLOW EARTH’, we will keep
these introductory words brief. As he states below, Bernard spent many years
searching
“After the
“He became known to flying saucer
researchers
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because of his belief that the UFOs came from
beneath the earth. He corresponded widely with many of them, including this
editor, after he had settled in Joinville, Santa Catarina,
Brazil, where he hoped to set up a colony for people throughout the world who
wanted to come there and develop that rich agricultural area - and escape what
he believed to be a coming atomic holocaust.
“In 1964, Dr. Bernard felt that he was ready
to invite the first settlers, and sent out considerable correspondence on this
subject. During 1965, however, his letters ceased abruptly, and letters were
returned from Joinville marked ‘deceased.’
“Researchers looking into this matter,
however, were unable to find any records, such as medical records or a death
certificated of Dr. Bernard's demise.
“During the later part of 1964, he claim that he had found the entrances to several underground
cities, and had actually entered some of these portals to the inner earth. He
believed that these entrances existed throughout
“Many writers in the
“His books were published by
“It is evident that Dr. Bernard's source of
subsistence came from a relatively modest estate, inherited from his mother,
and amounting to about $100,000, upon which he lived and conducted his work
during his years of searching for the inner
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earth.
“Since no records of his death could be
found, and since he had often referred to possible trips to the inner earth, it
is most natural to reach the rather fantastic conclusion that he either met
with some accident in his explorations or actually penetrated the inner earth,
where he either met with an unfortunate fate - or is still living!
“Gray Barker, who published a recent
edition of Bernard's, THE HOLLOW EARTH, expressed those same ideas in material
appended to that edition. The following account by Dr. Bernard was given to the
editor when we were contemplating the publication of a book such as this one
back in 1964.
“Though we were unable to go through with
our publication plans at that time, we are most happy, at last, to put this
interesting material into print.
“After a 32-year search through 20
countries of Central and South America, I at last found what I sought - THE
SUBTERRANEAN CITIES OF THE ATLANTEANS, which exist mostly in
“Other planets could not possibly be so much
interested in us as to send space ships here (...why not from both sources? - Branton), while those who live inside the earth and receive
air from the outside are very interested to prevent contamination of the air
they breathe by radio-activity. It is interesting to note that flying saucers
started coming in quantity after 1945, when the first atomic bomb was exploded
in
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“I have discovered many subterranean cities
and have spotted the location of about fifty in this part of
“These people and their descendants still
live in these cities. I am now collecting a group of Brazilian men, women and
children wishing to establish residence in such cities and wish to save as many
Americans as possible. This undertaking to save a remnant of mankind is
entirely humanitarian and non-commercial (for the subterranean people use no
money and require no payment of those they accept in their subterranean
cities).
“In my various books I have presented scientific
evidence to prove that the earth, rather than being a solid sphere... molten at
its center, is rather a hollow ball, whose crust is about 800 kilometers thick,
with openings at north and south extremities, and with a small sun in its
center. This sun gives off light for the plant, animal and HUMAN life which
exists in the inner earth. When I wrote these books I presented a well-founded
scientific concept and theory of the earth's structure, but had no experimental
evidence in proof of my theory except Admiral Byrd's expeditions, which entered
for 1,700 miles into the North Pole opening and 2,300 miles into the South Pole
opening. For material related to this, one
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should read my book, THE HOLLOW EARTH.
“Since then, however, other evidence has
appeared which PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT what I had previously written.
I shall now relate a most amazing experience by one of the 20 explorers working
with me, concerning a trip in a giant cigar-shaped flying (craft) to the center
of the earth, without entering either the north or south opening. I quote from
my explorer friend who does not want his name revealed at this time. Thus he
shall be known only as R.K. Hera is his
story:
"’...A certain hunter who had spent
most of his life tramping through the mountains of Santa Catarina
informed Dr. Raymond Bernard, director of our expedition, that one day he came
across an immense tunnel inside of which he saw a giant air vehicle which he
described as a zeppelin. Dr. Bernard therefore engaged this hunter to bring me
to this tunnel. I entered the tunnel and found inside, this strange immense air
vehicle and its pilot, a subterranean man.
"’I wanted to take a photo of the air
vehicle but the pilot would not permit it. However he did invite me to ascend
the staircase leading to a door in the vehicle, and I entered. It was
magnificently furnished inside and could accommodate about 40 passengers. The hunter who accompanied me also entered
the vehicle.
"’I made a second trip to this same
tunnel at a later date, this time alone. When I entered the vehicle, the door
closed and I was taken for a trip. The vehicle had no windows and I was unable
to see where I went, or perhaps the windows were purposely closed to guard
certain important secrets.
"’There was no sound of any motor and
the vehicle was completely silent. It was operated by a different form of
energy, and so I concluded it was
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a giant cigar-shaped flying saucer. I expected it to
leave the tunnel and fly in the sky, but instead it traveled deeper and deeper
into the tunnel. Then it began descending and I felt a strange sensation in my
stomach, the same as when an elevator descends rapidly in one of
“‘The descent took about half an hour and I
figured the vehicle traveled at supersonic speed, because, as Dr. Bernard
explained, showing me a diagram from his book, that what really happened was
that the vehicle descended through an inclined tunnel connecting the earth's
surface with its hollow interior -- perhaps the only such connection between
the two worlds, excepting the north and south polar openings.
"’Finally, the feeling of descent in
my stomach disappeared and it seemed that the vehicle was now flying
horizontally. A large window at the bottom of the vehicle then opened, and much
to my amazement I saw below me a large city. This city was much different from
the much small subterranean cities inside the earth's crust and not far from
the surface, of which Dr. Bernard discovered more than 60. These exist in
“(NOTE: While these subterranean cities
exist [mostly] in
"’The vehicle then made a curve in
order to return, and as it did, it tilted, and much to my surprise I saw a
“sun” in the sky, though smaller
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and nearer than our sun, and dimmer and reddish
(orange) in color. This is the central sun described by Dr. Bernard in his
books. It is a remnant of the original fire before the formation of our
planet."
"’The vehicle then began to ascend and
finally it returned to its starting point. I then returned to Dr. Bernard to
tell him of my experience. I really did not understand at all what I had gone
through until he showed me diagrams from his book, THE HOLLOW EARTH, and
explained that I was the first inhabitant of the Earth’s surface (that Dr.
Bernard was aware of, that is - Branton) ever to
travel to the subterranean world in the hollow interior of the earth. He added
that I made the greatest discovery and performed the greatest feat of
exploration in history, much greater than that of
(Actually, those who constructed the
‘vehicle’ in which this man traveled, probably ‘discovered’ the inner world
before him... - Branton ;o)
"’I then told Dr. Bernard that I had
forgotten to tell him one thing - namely that the subterranean pilot had told
me that a great reception was being prepared for him in the center of the
earth, when I will bring him there on my next trip, for as a leader of our
expedition, the subterranean people will honor as the first inhabitant of the
earth's surface to establish communication between the Upper World and the Subterranean
World.
“‘This reception will take place in the
City of
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thrilled when he heard of this invitation, for he has
tirelessly searched and traveled for 32 years, covering more than 20 countries
of
“‘This is undoubtedly THE GREATEST FEAT OF
EXPLORATION IN HISTORY. I wish all who want to help me, to come here and let me
bring them to the tunnel in which this vehicle is stationed.
“‘There are certain basic requirements,
however, before anyone can enter the Subterranean World. These were given to me
by the leaders of that world. They are:
“‘1. The applicant must abstain from all
animal foods, and be a strict vegetarian, consuming no meat, fish, fowl, eggs,
dairy products, honey, salt condiments, coffee, tea, cocoa, alcoholic
beverages, etc. (Hmmm... maybe living in
the outer world isn't so bad after all!? [smile] I do
however agree with his warnings against alcohol consumption - Branton ;o)
“‘2. He must not be addicted to the
poisonous weed, tobacco.
“‘3. Persons wishing to enter the center
(of the) earth must also be strictly chaste, for no sexual relations are
allowed.’ (Question: How do they pro-create!? - Branton)
“...Right now there are about 100
individuals (men, women and children) in Santa Catarina
ready to take up residence in the subterranean colony I am establishing, to be
associated with one of the 60 subterranean cities I found, all of which have an
abundance of fruits for the nutriment of their inhabitants. These fruits grow
under the strange light that illuminates the subterranean (cavern) cities.
(Note: Some believe that this ‘light’ is a diffused electromagnetic
illumination of the cavern
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‘atmosphere’, somewhat similar to the aurora borealis
phenomena. - Branton)
“One such city was described by Bulwer
Lytton in his book, THE COMING RACE. The subterranean race of fruitarians, who
live for centuries, will be the coming race after surface cities are destroyed
by the lethal fallout of World War III. Belief in an impending destruction is
widespread in
“Another one of my explorers discovered a
subterranean city in which exist marvelous automata or mechanical robots. These
robots perform all kinds of useful labor and have electronic brains which,
strange to relate, posses a degree of intelligence of their own. They can
speak, answer questions, talk, open and close doors, etc. These robots are
controlled by radiations coming from a control dial, something like a
typewriter, operated by a subterranean man.
“When my explorer came to the door of this
subterranean city, the robot opened the door and met him, together with the
subterranean man who controlled him(it). The
subterranean spoke Esperanto or a similar language, which had words from many
of our languages, mixed together. When my explorer tried to take a photo of
him, he grabbed the camera, which he later returned.
“To enter the tunnel which leads to this
subsurface city one must pass through poisonous gases and wear a mask and carry
a tank of oxygen. My explorer spent some time in the subterranean city of Atlantean scientists, operating strange devices. These
subsurface world people ride in
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automatic cars that travel at
supersonic speeds along rails or something like this.
“My explorer has been invited to bring
eleven other people to this city, and each newcomer can bring eleven more. In
this way, more and more people, who begin to realize that an inner earth really
exists, can experience its actualities. They will also learn that the people
who live in these cities are flesh and blood people who look, for the most
part, just like you and me. Only their science and personal development is
thousands of years more advanced than ours, on the outer surface of the
planet."
*******
#19A
--- Page 26-29 of the March, 1960 issue of SEARCH magazine, carried the
following fascinating story:
I FOUND SHAVER'S CAVES!
By "The, Inca"
(Name withheld for reasons this account makes
obvious)
Joinville,
c/o postal
“The editors of SEARCH present here a
strange manuscript, or rather, a letter, received by us from a man who claims
to be a descendant of the Incas. Although he signed his name, he has asked us
to withhold it for reasons of safety for himself and his family. We present his
information with no comment other than that it is presented as received. Without
actually accepting the invitation of the Inca to go to these caverns with him,
nothing further can be said, one way or the other.
"’...I am descended from the Inca race,
which
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disappeared in a tunnel when the
Spaniards invaded their country, and continued to live in subterranean cities.
The Incas were a race of vegetarians and pacifists, and when the Spaniards came
to attack them, they did not fight, but escaped into tunnels and disappeared
from the world.
“‘During all of my life I have been searching
for my lost race and traveled to many countries, as far north as Mexico, also
in Venezuela, Chili, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and all parts of Brazil,
investigating tunnels to find an entrance to the subterranean world. But I
could not find anything, and lost (through swindlers claiming to bring me to Atlanteans under the earth) and spent 1,800,000 cruzieros, equivalent to $36,000.
“‘After my money was gone I worked as a
mechanic and saved money, and with it, I continued my investigations. After
searching all the 21 states of
“‘One day I went to a river to drink water.
On the other side was a high mountain. I heard a powerful voice coming from the
top of the mountain, yelling many times. I thought it was a person lost in the
forest and asking for help. I swam the river to the other side and walked
through the forest an hour and then climbed for two and a half hours. When I
reached the top I found a hole in the ground. It was very deep, as I found by
dropping a stone down.
“‘I then gathered vines from trees, tied
them together, fastened a stone at the end and dropped it down until (it hit)
bottom. I pulled it up and it measured 100 meters or 330 feet.
“‘Then I returned to Joinville and told Dr. Raymond
Bernard about this, who gave me money to buy a rope. I returned to the mountain
and by means
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of the rope I descended. When I came to the bottom I
entered a tunnel, which I traversed for a distance of 2000 meters. I then saw
with my flashlight a door of stone. While I was watching the door, it suddenly
opened and I saw a very tall man with a metallic uniform, who spoke with a powerful
voice and said that this was the first time that anyone ever had the courage to
enter this tunnel.
“‘I first was frightened at the powerful
voice of the man and wanted to run, but he called me and told me not to be
afraid as he was a very peaceful person who never did harm to any living being.
So I asked him who he was to live in this cavern. He said: "I am an Atlantean-Inca, the guardian of this door." He asked
me what I was looking for. I told him I was looking for my race, because I too
am an Inca. He seemed to be very pleased to hear this. I told him I would like
to visit his city, and that I had an American friend, and a wife who would like
to go there too, with my children.
“‘He told me to bring photographs of my
wife, children and American friend, and if they were found acceptable, he would
give permission for them to enter.
“‘I then returned to Dr. Bernard, who gave
me his own photo, and I brought all the photos, including those of my wife and
children, back to the Atlantean. “‘On this second visit to the Atlantean he delivered a lecture on radioactivity and its
danger. He said that radioactive dust in the air is now causing surface
dwellers to age very rapidly because it accumulates in the pores of the skin
and stops skin respiration. He said the pores of the skin have a constants
alternate contraction and expansion and serve to take in air and expel foreign
matter.
(Note: There are those who believe that not
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only
radioactive dust, but also solar ‘radiation’, causes surface dwellers to age
faster, which is why the subterranean’s who are not
exposed to such radiations -- and also the antediluvian’s who lived at a time
when the earth was surrounded by a Venus-like canopy of water vapor which
blocked out most of the harmful solar radiations –– had life-spans of several
hundred years. However, as a result of
man’s rebellion against his Creator, and their unbalancing of the natural
order, this vaporous ‘canopy’ condensed and ‘fell’ to earth as the deluge. - Branton)
“‘In an atmosphere of radioactive dust
& metals, these substances clog up the pores and interfere with their vital
functions of respiration and excretion. This causes disease and early death.
“‘The Atlantean
called me to come near a transparent screen to make an exchange of blood, to
make sure I will preserve the secret of the whereabouts of this tunnel, so that
I do not reveal it to an unworthy person. When I was near the curved plastic
screen, another curved plastic screen suddenly appeared from each side of the
door and encompassed me, so that I found myself inside the two curved plastic
screens.
“‘Then it seemed that all air was pumped
out, leaving a vacuum in the space where I was BETWEEN the plastic screens.
Then other air entered, which seemed lighter and purer, which made me feel more
healthful and stronger. Then the inside plastic door opened, and he put inside
a man-sized capsule of this transparent substance which he held by handles on
both sides of it, and told me to go inside the open door. After I was inside,
the door automatically closed.
“‘Now the second plastic door opened and
the Atlantean took hold of the handles on each side
of the capsule and carried me to the other side of the
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inside plastic screen whose doors automatically
opened and shut.
“‘Then he inserted his hands into two soft
pockets in the capsule, made of the same material, and took hold of a metal
device which he lowered on the chain and wire with which it was suspended from
the curved top of the capsule (the base was flat for me to stand on) and put it
on my head. Then he went over to an
electrical apparatus, from which a recording tape emerged and I heard a ticking
sound, much like a telegraphic ticker. Then he read the tape, put it in a box
and spoke in a funnel-shaped speaker in a strange language. It seemed to be a
radio telephone.
“‘Then he asked me for the photos. He told
me to put my hand by one part of the capsule with a very delicate wall. He told
me to push my hand through, which I did and the material adhered to my hand
like an elastic, so as not to permit any air from inside the capsule to leave,
since he was afraid of my having contaminated the air inside the capsule by
what I exhaled. Then he sprayed my hand with a purpose of radioactive decontamination.
He took the photos from my hand and slid them into an opening in the same
electrical apparatus. Then more tape emerged, which he read and then spoke by
radio telephone to headquarters below. He then looked at a sort of small
television apparatus with a horizontal screen, apparently to see the persons he
was speaking to.
“‘He told me not to bring here any unworthy
person, because he would know it in advance. I asked how. He said that with
this apparatus, which he called an "electro-visor" he could behold
whatever was occurring in any part of the world. If any unworthy person comes
near the mountain and tries to get to the tunnel opening, certain rays confuse
the person's mind, so that he is unable to
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continue the trip and will go off in the wrong
direction.
“‘I had some bread in a pocket. He told me
not to eat the bread. He put a white pill in my hand (which was projected
outside the capsule all the time), and told me this pill had the taste of many
fruits and that his people live entirely on it. I believe it is a concentrate
of the vitamins of fruits. Then I withdrew my hand and the elastic material
through which it projected closed.
“‘After he gave me the pill he carried the
capsule with me inside to the space between the two plastic screens, as the
door of the inside screen opened to admit the capsule and then automatically
shut. Then the door of the capsule
opened. I left the capsule, and then the door of the outside plastic screen opened
and I left.
“‘When newcomers enter, they first enter the
capsule, and the Atlantean carries them to a
Decontamination Chamber (the Atlantean told me). The
door of the capsule opens, the person leaves the capsule, takes off his
clothing, then the chamber becomes filled with vapor
which draws forth radioactive poisons from his body. The person dresses with
other clothing there ready for him, then enters an "electronic
apparatus", which carries him to the center of the earth (i.e. into the
‘geo-concavitic’ portion of the earth’s
‘coconut-like’ shell, some 800 miles below.
In fact, some believe that the Creator in His infinite wisdom created
all or most planets ‘hollow’, in keeping with some sort of cosmic law of
‘conservationism’ - Branton).
“‘I should mention that during my visits,
before the door opened I heard a peculiar humming sound, which was of the
apparatus with which the Atlantean came up from
below, which became louder and louder as the apparatus came near, and when it
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came to a stop the noise stopped and the doors
automatically opened.
“‘I should also mention that when a flying
saucer came near my house on Saturday, June 13, 1959, in the afternoon and
night, it gave off an identical hum as this subterranean apparatus, which makes
me think they are both operated by the same mechanism and that the flying
saucer was an apparatus of these same subterranean Atlanteans
and did not come from another planet.
“‘The flying saucer came describing
(performing) a spiral which descended on top of a hill about 2000 meters from
my house, and then rose in a spiral manner, with a tail of light behind it. It
came in the night, had a round shape and a silver color. I believe it was sent
by subterranean Atlanteans, who knew where I lived
and came especially near my house.
“‘We are now twenty-on We are now twenty-one
vegetarians. This is necessary for
those who wish to enter the subterranean world. And if any of you wish to
enter, you may send me your photos for Presentation to the Atlantean,
to secure permission for you to enter.
“‘I am sending you this as an invitation to
come here and I will guarantee to bring you to the Atlantean
and to the subterranean world. I wish you to reply and tell me whether you care
to come or not. We will then tell you when to come and meet us. Await our
reply, as we are now building a boat and an elevator, and when these are ready
we will advise you to come and meet us in Joinville.
“‘This may seem as a lie or a story, and
many people will not believe that a subterranean world, which is a Utopia,
exists, but IT EXISTS! I know it exists
because I made this discovery and saw with my own eyes. The door I came to
leads to a tunnel through which the Atlantean came up
from the
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subterranean world in the center of the earth on an "electrical apparatus" and there exists the cities of this interior world called Agharta.
“‘When the boat (to cross the river) and the
elevator (to descend into the tunnel) are ready, I will enter with my family
and bring them to the subterranean world, then I will return to wait for your
coming and will bring you there. In that world there is no radioactivity to
poison the air and foods, as here.
“‘That world has no bad people, no
swindlers, no crooks. All the people there are good,
pure and vegetarians. They do not eat bulky vegetables as we do here. There
they live entirely on fruit concentrates prepared as pills, which dissolves in
your mouth and eat nothing else. I say this because the Atlantean
delivered a talk to me and told me all what I say and gave me a pill, which I
ate. It made me feel as strong as a bull, and very warm, and it seemed as if I
overate (I ate it on my way back), and could not walk, so I lay down and went
to sleep for several hours until I got over the feeling of overeating.
“‘On that pill I returned to Joinville full
of energy, and for the following three days I could not eat a thing, as I had
no appetite, because the pill had a high concentration of the vitamins of
fruits, and was so nourishing that I had no further need for food.
“‘Now we are working on the boat and
elevator and the moment when they are finished, ten vegetarians here in
Joinville including three men, one woman and six children, will go up the
mountain and descend into the subterranean world. The youngest of this group is
only one week of age. I want my newborn child not to live and grow up in this
radioactively contaminated atmosphere and eat food full of radioactive poisons.
I want it to grow
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up in a better world free from radioactivity and live on these fruit concentrate pills in place of the radioactively contaminated foods here’”. --- Sincerely., The Inca (THE END)
*******
19B
--- The following letter was sent to Richard
Shaver by Dr. Raymond Bernard himself. Shaver in turn passed it along to Ray Palmer,
who published it in the October 1959 issue of SEARCH magazine, p.48:
Dear
Mr. Shaver:
“I have discovered several ‘dero’ races, who live in
subterranean cities. If you came here I could bring you to the dero people, but they are NOT malicious (Note: The subterranean’s that this individual met are probably NOT
known as the ‘dero’, but by another name. - Branton).
“First of all, they are vegetarians, as
they cannot keep animals where they live, and a vegetarian diet makes people
peaceful. They are simply the ‘Niebelungs’ or dwarfs,
and with long white beards, of fairy tales, and they have dwarf women and
children. Last week my investigators returned and said they visited their city
(which has its own system of illumination) and are able to bring any of my
American friends to visit it, but I require one condition: absolute secrecy, as
I don't want governments to send armies Into the
tunnel to disturb these peaceful people.
“To reach them requires a 3-day journey of
about 40 miles through a tunnel. This entire distance is through a tunnel
carefully lined with cut stone blocks below,. above and on the sides. That was quite an engineering feat.
I think the tunnel was made long to keep out curiosity seekers,
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and only the most determined will travel that distance.
“Here is a report of my investigators:(They are two ranchers, father and son; who discovered the tunnel accidentally):
"’We left our house 5:A,M.
for the tunnel on top of a mountain and reached it 3 P.M. We were tired and
camped near the entrance of the tunnel. For three days we proceeded through the
tunnel. We told time by our watches, as we could not tell when it was day or
night. We went to sleep at 10 P.M. and awoke at 3 A.M. and continued walking.
By the third day the tunnel started to go downward by steps. It was built of
stone blocks on all sides. By the night of the third day the tunnel suddenly
opened into a great space covered with what appeared as a sky with yellow light
that made everything luminous, like daylight.
“‘We saw a city with many houses and saw
many people in the distance. They were dwarfs with long white beards and long
hair and we saw women and children, and heard them crying. The third member of
our party got frightened so we had to return...’
“These men found three such tunnels. They entered another for three days, but
after hearing voices further in, got scared and returned. Now they are entering
the third.
“But these people of your dero race (except not malicious,
as you injected much imagination into your account of subterranean people) are
degenerate offshoots of the real Atlanteans who live
in the hollow center of the earth. How to gets there is a great secret.
“If you wish to come here and visit these dero people I can arrange it. There is no charge as we are
not after money. But you better come soon because I intend to enter the deeper
subterranean world, perhaps never to return. Why should I return
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to this miserable radioactive world, which the Atlantean teacher told us will be as dead as the moon by
1969, when I can live in a non-radioactive paradise?
“To enter you must pay the price:
“1: STRICT VEGETARIANISM, to get a clean
body inside, free from decaying proteins; the Atlanteans
have refined sense organs and do not like people near them who are walking
cemeteries of putrefying corpses of animals.
“2: Absolute continence, or conservation of
phosphorus which is not wasted via the gonads and conserved to feed the brain
cells.
“3: A vow of silence so that you don't
‘spill the beans’ and endanger these people who do not want any lunatics with
atomic weapons to invade them.
“4: You must give up all surface
attachments for money, fame, etc.
“If you, Richard Shaver, meet these
qualifications, I will bring you to the subterranean world. No price charged
except the price above stated. Show this all to Ray and tell him he and his
family are welcome too. But I wonder if he would pay the price? Anyway he can
do a good service on the surface to save others by publicizing our discovery in
a cautious manner as we don't want madmen with atomic weapons invading these
people to learn their scientific secrets concerning ‘vril’,
their source of energy beyond atomic energy, which empowers their flying
saucers... two of which came here yesterday to visit us.
“It is pure nonsense to claim they come
from other planets. They purposely say so to conceal their true origin so as
not to endanger their people. But now that the human race has only a few years
left to survive on earth, the subterranean’s
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have adopted a more open-policy. You ask how to
reach them. Their entry is in Matto Grosso, in Chavantes territory, where Fawcett was heading when last
seen.
“Fawcett is still living in a subterranean
city. The Atlanteans refuse to let him out because he
has too loud a mouth and may speak too much or be forced to deliver lectures
before scientific societies about his expedition. The subterranean’s do not wish
to risk invasion. However, those who are worthy will not be molested by the
Indians who guard the entrance to the subterranean world. Just how to enter
without danger is a secret I will tell only to qualified persons. The location
of the entrance is (in the)
Dr.
Raymond Bernard
Director,
Postal
(Mr. Shaver gave us this letter, apparently
sent at the same time as the article we received from Brazil, and which is
reproduced in the next issue. Apparently Mr. Shaver is unwilling to risk
visiting the ‘dwarf’ people, admitted by Dr. Bernard to be ‘degenerate’. The
idea of their being peaceful because they are vegetarians doesn't convince Mr.
Shaver, who points out that human beings are not vegetables, and he says he's
seen [via telaug] human beings being eaten in
caverns. As for the ‘Atlanteans’, Shaver just doesn't
know. This is new to him. - Rap.)
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#20
--- The following story appeared in a
"
“Robinson is the information officer for
the San Diego Police Department and local reporters generally give him high
marks for credibility.
“It was while vacationing in
“Garcia's produce is the wonder of the
marketplace in Valle de Santiago, a village 260 miles northwest of Mexico city,
near
“Housewives swear they are as tender and
tasty as normal sized vegetables. Yet Garcia plows his 3 acre plot behind a mule
or horse, just like his neighbors... buys the same seed at the store, and does
not use fertilizers.
“Garcia said that in 1947, as a youth of 17
struggling to make ends meet on the farm inherited from his father, he met a
stranger, who looked and talked like a Mexican peasant.
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“The stranger said he had been held captive
by tall, fair humanoids IN A TUNNEL BENEATH A NEARBY VOLCANO. His captors spoke
unintelligible gibberish, he said, and lived on out-sized vegetables.
“He said he had memorized their magic
formula, which he sketched on a scratch of paper. He told Garcia to concentrate
on the symbols and that after a period of time, the ‘message’ would become
clear, then he walked away.
“After several sleepless nights, Garcia got
the revelation, what ever it was - planted the seeds and has produced gigantic
vegetables ever since. Arrendondo wrote about Garcia
in the Irapuato newspaper, EL ALACRAN and a Mexico City magazine, IMPACTO...
“An imaginative Agriculture Ministry
official took up Garcia's challenge to prove his crop-growing, in a grow-off
against any farmer on any soil. The ministry laid out two 20 acre plots near
Campo de Tangasneque in December 1978. The competing
tract was farmed by a team of ministry experts and local farmers hand-picked
from a nearby cooperative, using fertilizers.
“At harvest time, the results were tallied.
Garcia still has the tote sheets, showing the ministry team averaged 30 tons of
produce per acre, compared to his 106 tons. A ministry official thanked
Garcia and told him he could sell the produce, disappointing Garcia. He had
expected to be summoned to
keep samples.
"’Why isn't the world interested?’ Arrendondo asked Robinson in the chance sidewalk Café
encounter in
“Robinson and Arrendondo
went to the farm north
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of town where Garcia presented Robinson with the
monumental onion. Why didn't the
government experts give him recognition? ‘Perhaps,’ he replied, ‘they took it
personally.’”
*******
#21
--- The two following accounts are taken from an article by Vincent H. Gaddis,
titled “NOTES ON SUBTERRANEAN SHAFTS”, which appeared on pages 150-151 of the
June, 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES magazine:
"...Rising above the Pacific near
“It has never been fully explored, and it
apparently goes back into the earth for an incredible distance. The walls are
remarkably smooth and decorated with un-translated inscriptions and figures.
Long delayed echoes reveal its astonishing depth.
“It has been known to the Indians for some
years, but they avoid it and tell of strange lights that they have observed
near its mouth. Although access to it is difficult, this man-made, vast and
unexplored ancient tunnel deserves investigation. Why it was constructed in
such a treacherous spot on a barren cliff is itself a mystery.
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#22
--- (From the same article...) “...On the road from
“Some years ago an earthquake shook the
village and part of the ancient wall collapsed, revealing a tunnel cut into the
cliff.
“The sides of the tunnel bore mysterious
inscriptions and figures of birds, snakes and curious unknown animals. The
local Indians (natives) kept away from the passage, but one day two Americans
who were passing through the village decided to explore it.
“Hours later they emerged greatly excited
and left the town, stating that they would return. But they never came back. No
one knows who these Americans were or what they found.
“The padres, for reasons known only to themselves, sealed the tunnel again by rebuilding the wall.
In more recent years they have absolutely refused to permit exploration,
although they state that they have no knowledge of what lies within -– which is
probably true. Only time will reveal the answer."
*******
#23
--- Pages 46-49 of the Aug. 1958 issue of "SEARCH" magazine carried
the following article by Jim Wentworth, titled - "THE MARGARET ROGERS
STORY":
"...Few
students of the ‘Shaver Mystery’ would find the story of Margaret Rogers
uninteresting. For it
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was she who wrote a booklet in 1947 called ‘BEGINNING’
- which told, in seventy-seven pages, of her personal experiences in the
ancient underground caverns that Richard Shaver claims exist to this day, for
the most part in secret.
“Margaret was also responsible for the true
story ‘I Have Been In The Caves’ which appeared in the
January, 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES.
“Her story began on January 8, 1930, when
she was thirty-nine years old. As an American drug addict, unemployed, living
in
“On this day, a sympathetic and kindly
friend, Doc Kelmer of the Electro Therapy Institute,
took her in hand.
“As he had on other occasions, he gave her
some money for food, clothing, hotel, etc. Later the following night, he met
her, and in his car drove her past the city limits on the road leading to
“When Margaret became violently sick, he
gave her a small vial to drink. She did so, falling asleep immediately.
“Still later, upon awakening in a motionless
car, she found herself in mountainous country lit by a brightly shining moon.
The car was close to a mass of greenery that grew at the foot of a tall cliff.
“Margaret thought the spot was near Ixtaccihuatl.
“Doc
Kelmer stood quietly touching the foliage. Once more
Margaret was overcome by nausea. After the (nausea) attack, Doc came to her
side, talked briefly, and returned to the foliage. With upraised arms, he
wailed (rather than spoke) a few words. Then a startling thing happened. The
whole mass of
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greenery slid to one side, revealing a large opening.
Margaret followed the middle-aged man inside, oddly unafraid.
“The opening closed, and a queer bluish
light filled the cave. Events moved swiftly then. But to Margaret it was all so
vague. As though ordered, she made for a large block of black marble beside one
of the cave's walls, and lay down upon it.
“She felt herself float above cool, green
waters, watching strangely-colored denizens at play, unable to descend for
quite some time. She finally submerged beneath the water. The sensation of drowning
was never felt. Then -- utter oblivion. Once or twice, as in a dream, she saw
that she was in a vast room, lying on a table of some sort. Many giant figures
surrounded her. Under a soft, lavender light, Margaret felt heavenly relief
from the pains she had known for so long.
“Again came the feeling of floating. And,
again, came the hazy realization that she lay
unclothed on a table with one of the giants bending over her. When fully awake,
Margaret thought for a moment that death had truly claimed her. In wonder, as
she lay in a fur-covered bed fifteen feet long and nine feet wide, she looked
about the room in which she was present, a spacious room with appropriately
huge furniture where everything was seemingly made of silvery metal.
“Now free of pain, feeling clean (and
weak), Margaret was given a jolt when she received a visitor in the person of a
strangely attired female giant, strikingly beautiful.
“Given food, and told the date -- January
15, 1930 -- as well as the fact that she had for days been taking the ‘cure,’
Margaret learned that she had not dreamed of the giant figures about her when
she had arrived in the caverns. For later she met those very same giants (or
surgeons, to give them
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their proper name) who had cured her of the drug
habit and its ruinous results on her system.
“Margaret Rogers saw many amazing things;
learned much; met many of the cavern people who were all very kind to her. She
noticed many articles of surface manufacture; examined wondrous machines of the
underworld; saw evidence of how a badly hurt surface man, with one eye blinded
for fifteen years, was made completely well again in two hours by the
miraculous science of the wise people below (This man had accidentally fallen
down a shaft while exploring the ‘Cave De Los Vientos’
[‘Cave of the Winds’], where he was found unconscious by the subterranean
inhabitants).
“Reduced to our size scientifically,
Margaret was told that many cavern people live on the surface in large numbers,
being scientists, doctors, lawyers, judges, even higher in the government.
“Days
passed...
“Babies were seen as big as ten-year-old
surface children. Cavern children at that age were noted to be Margaret's
height of five-feet-five. The method of locomotion in the underworld was a
vehicle that was wheel less and without motors, torpedo-shaped and two-seated.
In what manner were they propelled over the perfectly smooth roads? Simply by
-- thought! About 2,000 miles was covered
in less than two hours on one occasion.
“She learned further that the caverns are
visited by Venusians in space ships, for the people below (who by the way call
themselves the 'Nephli’) have colonies all over the
universe.
“All the stars and planets as large as
Earth, or larger, have life in humanoid form. None of this four-legged,
green-colored intelligence so popular
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in science fiction.
Animals, on the other hand, are more varied.
“...More time passed for Margaret Rogers.
For her it was a happy period. Horror and fear never once marred the scene.
“I might mention here the fact that certain
underworld territory was forbidden. Margaret never had the reason explained to
her.
“Before leaving for her return to the
surface, she was told she would come back to the caverns in twenty years.
“Now, let us check back to the September,
1946 issue of AMAZING STORIES where a letter was printed by a Mrs. D.C. Rogers
of 117 Devine Street, San Antonio 3., Texas -– evidently the same Margaret
Rogers who wrote the booklet BEGINNING.
“Here, in the letter, she touches briefly on
her experiences in the immense caves of the underworld. A few important facts are mentioned.
“(1) Margaret Rogers ‘disappeared strangely
and appeared just as strangely after three years.’ (Having
entered the caves in January of 1930, she therefore departed sometime in 1933).
“(2) ‘I was born here’(in
the
"(3) ‘I shall go back (to the
underworld) when I am sixty years of age, three years from now.’ (Figuring it out, by her own admission, Margaret was thirty-nine in
the year 1930 when first she found herself in the caves.) With her
published letter in AMAZING STORIES in 1946, she should have been
fifty-five. 1951, then, would have been
the year of her second disappearance below. For then she would be sixty.
“Since I have known the story of Margaret
Rogers for more than ten years, I have often wondered about her. Did she vanish
in 1951 as she had prophesied? I never
did find the answer."
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*******
#24
--- The following two ‘origin’ stories/legends can be found on page 95 of
"THE PROBLEM OF ATLANTIS", by Lewis Spence:
"...More important are the flood
legends of the Indians of
"...The Arawaks
of Gutana had a myth to the effect that Aimon Kondi, the Great Spirit,
scourged the world with fire, from which the survivors sought refuge in
underground caverns. A great flood followed, in which Marerewana
and his followers saved themselves in a canoe."
******
#25
--- The following Taino myth was recorded on the island
of Haiti, or Hispaniola, by Fray Ramon Pane, a poor anchorite of the order of
St. Jerome, at the bidding of Columbus, who ordered him to set down all their
language and antiquities, because of his familiarity with their language. (From
- "LATIN AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY", by Hartley Burr Alexander., pp. 28-29):
"The earliest Indians appeared, according to the legend, from two caverns of a certain mountain of Hispaniola -- ‘moat of the people that first inhabited the island came out of Cacibagiagua,’ while the others emerged from Amaiauva (it is altogether likely that the two caves represent two races or tribal stocks).
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“Before the people came forth, a watchman, Marocael, guarded the entrances by night; but, once
delaying his return into the caves until after dawn, the sun transformed him
into a stone; while others, going a-fishing, were also caught by the sun and
were changed into trees. As for the sun and moon, they, too, came from a
certain grotto, called Giovava, to which, says Fray
Ramon, the Indians paid great veneration, having it all painted ‘without any
figure, but with leaves and the like’; and keeping in it two stone ‘zemis’ which looked ‘as if they sweated’; to these they
went when they wanted rain."
*******
#26
--- Thy following information can be found on page 123 of Ellen Russell
Emerson's book. "INDIAN MYTHS":
"...It is to the Cubans we are indebted
for the following version of man's origin:
“It was from the depths of a deep cavern in
the earth that mankind issued. There were two apertures to this cavern, one
large and the other small: out of the large aperture passed the men who are of
tall, magestic proportions;
and from the small issued the men of diminutive size..."
*******
#27
--- The following interesting information concerning the Aztecs can be found on
pages 91-93 of "AMERICAN HERO-MYTHS", by Daniel G. Brinton:
"All through
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they dwelt, constantly crops out. To that land
the Aztecs referred as their former dwelling place. It was located at some
indefinite distance to the north or northwest -- in the same direction as Tollan. The name of that land was significant. It was
called the White or Bright land, Aztlan.
“In its midst was situated the mountain or
hill Colhuacan the Divine, Teoculhuacan.
In the base of this hill were the Seven Caverns, Chicomoztoc,
whence the seven tribes with their respective gods had issued... those gods
including Quetzalcoatl, Hnitzilopochtli and the Tezeatlipocas.
There continued to live their mother, awaiting their return.
“The lord of this land and the father of the
seven sons is variously and indistinctly named. One
legend calls him the White Serpent of the Clouds, or the White Cloud Twin, Iztac Mixcoatl. Whoever he was we can hardly mistake the
mountain in which or upon which he dwelt. Colhuacan
means the ‘bent or curved mountain’. It is none other than the Hill of Heaven,
curving down on all sides to the horizon; upon it in all times have dwelt the
gods, and from it they have come to aid the men they favor.
“Absolutely the same name was applied by
the Choctaws to the mythical hill from which they say their ancestors first
emerged into the light of day. They call it Nane Waiyah, ‘the Bent or Curved Hill’. Such identity of
metaphorical expression leaves little room for discussion."
Pages 134-135 of the same volume continues:
"For this reason Quetzalcoatl's statue,
or one of them, was in a reclining position and covered with wrappings,
signifying that he was absent, ‘as of one who lays him down to sleep, and that
when he
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should awake from that dream of absence, he should
rise to rule again the land.’
“He was not dead. He had indeed built
mansions underground, to the Lord of Mictlan, the
abode of the dead, the place of darkness, but he himself did not occupy them.
Where he passed his time was where the sun stays at night. As this, too, is
somewhere beneath the level of the earth, it was occasionally spoken of as Tlillapa, ‘The
“Caverns led down to it, especially one
south of Chapultepec, called Cincalco, ‘To the Abode
of Abundance,’ through whose gloomy corridors one could reach the habitation of
the sun and the happy land still governed by Quetzalcoatl and his lieutenant Totec.
“But the real and proper names for that land
were Tlapallan, ‘the
Pages
206-207 of
"It
is interesting to speculate that archeologists, working in caves of the
“There is ample evidence that Aztecs did,
in fact, move southward into the high
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speleologist's cap if he could solve the
mystery of the longitude and latitude of caverns which the Aztecs did use in
their migrations southward. Archeologists may rise up in careful academic wrath
and say that no such find can ever be made, but scholars were not impressed
when Heinrich Schliemann set out to find the city of
*******
#28
--- The following story was reported by John J. Robinson, a popular
investigator of UFOs and other phenomena. It appeared on pages 6-8 of Tim
Beckley's book, "THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD":
"After the conquest of
“The village of Liyobaa
(or to translate it, ‘The Cavern of Death’) was located in the province of Zapoteca (the ‘Zapotec’ natives
lived in the state of 'Oaxaca', Mexico -
Branton) somewhere near the ancient village of Mictlan (probably refering to
'Mitla' in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, which is an ancient city containing
Zapotec ruins - Branton), or the ‘Village of the Underworld’.
“The Cavern of Death
was actually located in the last chamber of an eight-chamber building or
temple. This temple had four rooms above the ground and four more important
chambers built below the surface.
"The high
priests of the then prevailing Indian
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religion conducted the ordinary ceremonies for the common man
of Theozapotlan in the upper rooms. It was when they descended into the
subsurface chambers that the secret and, to them, holy ceremonies, were
conducted.
"The
first underground room was the one which was reserved for any human sacrifice.
Its walls were lined with the images of the representations of their various
'gods'. A blood-stained stone alter in the center of the chamber served for the
sacrifice of any human victim, whose still-beating heart would be torn from a
screaming still-living body and offered to the lips of those same stone idols
for their supposed repletion. There was a second door in this first chamber
which led to the second room. This was a crypt where the preserved bodies of
all the deceased high priests reposed.
"The next door in this crypt led to
the third underground vault, about the walls of which were the preserved bodies
of all the former 'Kings' of Theozapotlan. For, on
the death of a king, his body is brought to this chamber and installed there
with all the state and glory, as well as with many sacrifices to accompany him.
"It was from this burial chamber of kings
that the fourth and last underground room was accessible. A doorway in this third
room led into the last underground chamber which seems appropriately to have
contained nothing but another entrance covered by a huge stone slab. I
write 'appropriately', for the entrance to either HELL or the CAVES should be
covered but unencumbered in the area about it for the benefit of those who
might wish to leave rapidly and wisely.
"It was considered by the Catholic
Fathers of that day that this was an entrance to Hades; however, as we may well
understand, it was an entrance to a Dero larder.
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"Through this doorway behind the stone
slab were placed the bodies of all human sacrifices as well as the bodies of
all great lords and chieftains of the land who fell in battle. The bodies of
these warriors were brought from far and wide to be thrown into this cave when
they had been cut down in battles which were constantly
being waged by these people.
"Many of the common people, when
debilitated by an incurable illness or oppressed by an unsupportable hardship,
which made them seek death, would prevail upon the high priests to allow them
to enter the door of death while still living.
They believed that if they did so they would be the recipients of a very
special afterlife.
“The high priests would sometimes accept
them as living sacrifices and after special ceremonies allow them to enter the
‘Cavern of Death’ while still living. Needles to say, none ever returned to
describe their experiences. The Catholic priests, in order to convert the
believers of this ‘myth’ to ‘Christianity’, made arrangements to enter the
subterranean door with a large retinue of torch holders and a long rope, which
was tied to the stone slab door. They also took the precaution of having a large armed guard make sure that the door was not closed
on them.
“After they had lighted their torches and
entered the door, it was discovered that they would have to descend several
very large steps. At the foot of the steps was a very wide stone-paved
passageway with a high stone buttress on either side. The passageway led
directly away from the steps into the distant bowels of the earth. The bones of
the most recent arrivals, picked clean, lay before them as the passage seemed
to continue without end.
“On each side of the buttressed path they
could
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see into a large open area which was a labyrinth of
huge stone pillars that seemed to hold up the very mountain which they knew
they were beneath.
“As they advanced into the mountain, a putrid, dank air assailed their nostrils, serpents retreated from the light of their torches, and at times they seemed to see distorted figures retreat from the light behind the shadows of the pillars in the distance.
“They continued into the depths a distance
of about 40 meters when suddenly a strong cold wind began to blow about them.
Still striving to continue, as their torches were extinguished rapidly, they
took flight when all became dark, not only from the danger of the serpents, but
also from strange sounds they could not place, but which were being made by the
members of their own party.
“Using the rope and the light of the torch
one of the guards held in the doorway, out of the strong wind, the entire party
rapidly retreated from this terrifying region.
“When all the company had swiftly retreated
to the ante-chamber of ‘Hell’, they rapidly replaced the large stone slab
door. After this the head prelate gave
orders to fill in all the underground chambers and seal off and erase all signs
of the stairs to them, thus eradicating for all tine this entrance to the
Caves.”
*******
Following
are passages from various sources that give information on Inner-Earth related
mysteries. They may specify the general, although not the exact, locations of
the entrances to the caverns:
In
July of 1980 I received a letter from a friend of mine, Ed Berg, of
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in contact with a race of ‘extraterrestrials’ who gave
him the information which I quote from his letter below:
"...According to my
friends in space some bases have been established, some underground and some
above ground. There are many types of aliens, many different kinds. Some
believe in God, some could care less - just like humans. Did you know the space
people also have souls and know a considerable amount about the spirit
world? But this is getting off the
subject.
“As to the subterranean cities, they do
exist... The cities were constructed by a race (or races?) who
inhabit them now. This race is very highly advanced and very peaceful.
According to my information this race went underground when the people of
Atlantis and the rest of the world started turning negative...
“This race has created materials harder
than diamonds..."
*******
Issue
No. 843 of the newsletter for the HOLLOW EARTH SOCIETY (GPO
"Dear
Members,
“The upper council has instructed me to
inform you that, with great sadness, we announce the loss of a third
independent expedition by two of our cherished members to the Central
Australian Nullarbor cave region which the Society
believes holds an entry point to the inner earth continents.
“An investigation was confidentially made.
No trace of the party or their equipment however was
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found. We have omitted names of the members until
we can evaluate whether their mission was successful.
“A second expedition will be launched in
March of this year with the full back-up of the H.E.S. We have arranged purchase of sophisticated
electronic equipment from the Sony corporation which
will keep the council abreast of all details..."
*******
The
following letter was sent to TAL LeVesque from Tawani W. Shoush (at the time
living at: RR
"Greetings:
“We have received your letter of 21 January.
We thank you for your courtesy and the enclosed items of interest...
“First, we have no information to exchange.
I shall try to be as brief as possible and to the point. Until five years ago
all things in life were on what may be termed normal. Then on a certain morning
I was awakened very early, about 1:30 AM by my faithful Doberman.
“A few hundred feet from my lodge on this
beautiful Ozark mountain was a pulsating light. I
arose and went to see what it was. Needless to say it was something that I had
not dared to think existed. Yes, it was what is commonly called a ‘Saucer’, but
I have since had several contacts, and have learned that the true name of these
craft is ‘Flugelrad’.
“I have had the honored privilege of
accompanying these beautiful ‘Arianni’ on three
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separate Flights.
(Note: Shoush, a
German immigrant, admits that this name ‘Arianni’ is
related to the word ‘Aryan’, which has led SOME to suggest -- in addition to
the fact that ‘Flugelrad’ is a German word -- that
these entities ‘may’ have been from the secret Nazi German ‘New Berlin’
underground ‘saucer’ base that exists or did exist beneath the Neu Schwabenland region of
Antarctic, where these Nazi’s reportedly collaborate with reptilian humanoids
that do unspeakable things to those humans whom they abduct. The
“Of course this sounds like a crackpot does
it not? Well, that is not the case.
These craft do come from the inner Earth. Strange that you call yourself Tal,
for that is the Name of my closest Arianni Friend ‘Thal’. We desire no connection with any other group. We
have been given a certain
“The
“Instead of the Americans realizing that
the
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Arianni were a Super Race and here for the benefit
of all Humanity, the Military Fired on them and pursued them with Hostile
intent. Insanity! Thus the Americans
have lost their chance with them.
“They have proposed to us (The Arianni) that if we can launch a sincere Expedition free of
Military or Materialistic intent, they will meet with us. There will be many
barriers no doubt, but as the (Hollow Earth? - Branton)
Society in Australia states, ‘At Last The Truth Will
Be Known’.
“So we proceed our
course as directed. Again, thank you for your courteous letter, and we wish you
all good Fortune in the quest of Peace."
*******
Page
10 of the book, ‘ESCAPE TO INNER EARTH’, by Dr. Raymond Bernard (author of 'The
Hollow Earth’) carried the following paragraph:
"...We will have to find refuge under
the earth from the radioactive contamination of its atmosphere and surface. In
fact, after we have found such refuge from the destructive effects of atomic
bombs and fallout, we will have to become permanent subterranean dwellers. That
such an idea is not as far-fetched as it may seem to be at first glance is
indicated by the discovery of vast subterranean tunnels under
*******
The
following letter appeared in the September, 1945 issue of AMAZING STORIES
magazine, on page 173:
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Sirs;
“I sincerely hope that Mr. Shaver's
intentions are good because it is clear that he has come into certain powerful
knowledge from the past. Let me make clear these points. The tablets referred to were buried by Thoth
(are these the so-called ‘Emerald Tablets of Thoth’? - Branton). They have since been dug up and are at
present in
“The Atlanteans
and Lemurians were two different places and races.
Both were wiped out by the great Masters because of failure to obey cosmic
laws. The last remnants of the Lemurians are locked
in a great cavern in the earth along with other... negative creatures and can
not be reached by any ordinary mortal, for which I give thanks to the Cosmos.
“About Shasta - it is not peopled by Lemurians, although some of those who dwell there are
centuries old. You may make inquires if you wish, however you will not learn
much unless the great ones wish it. The masters have seven great caverns in
scattered places throughout the earth.
“There were other elder races besides the Lemurians and Atlanteans. One of
these was the Xions, who came from a dark planet. As
you travel in space, it can be done if you travel through curves but not
through angles. I welcome inquiry in the proper spirit and will answer letters
from anyone who is sincere.
--- Alden M. Scrum.,
*******
The
following information can be found on pages 20-22 of David H. Lewis' book,
"THE INCREDIBLE CITIES OF INNER EARTH". This book describes an alleged
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expedition in April of 1979 into a
tunnel located in
"...There are, as far as we can
determine, seven openings from the outer crust to cavities yet unseen by
surface man. One such opening is the gigantic gap at the north
pole while the matching entrance being at our South Pole area. Of the
five remaining, we can pinpoint them as being in
“All openings mentioned are accessible with
the exception of one located in the mid-Atlantic ocean. No opening lends to a
dramatic entrance marked for your convenience with pointing signs, nor are they
even obvious to the careful explorer who is sure he has covered every square
mile of that location. The
most obvious is generally the unobserved.
“For South America, I can state that the
opening is by way of a natural tunnel for part of its enormous length: Its
location lies south of the
“A second opening, recorded on the microfilm
taken from the tombs of the Gizeh Pyramid, points to the
land now occupied by
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expedition entered and reached a point of falled rock extending miles in depth, and never returned.
“A third passage is marked for
“The fourth and most direct route is
completely inaccessible by people of earth, for its location is marked at a 40°
longitude, or 1,0029 meters below the surface of the
“The fifth entrance is located here in the
“The
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unoccupied in the area of such planned
tunnels. These areas (speculatory thoughts only) were
chosen for their climate, trade winds and the fact they could remain breathing
holes for centuries - utterly undetected by the surface inhabitant..."
Pages 16-17 of the same book continues as follows:
"...Today, our earth contains hundreds
of thousands of miles of tunnel systems - a network varying from the underground
arched tunnels from Trenton, New Jersey to Bordentown of the same area ... to
the network in Colorado Springs mountain - operated by our government, the
unknown tunnels beneath New York City, the extensive system now in the Himalaya
Mountains of China and the deep network of tunnel mastery that are buried deep
beneath the solid rock of our ocean beds. When you take into consideration that
most of this tunneling was done without your knowledge, especially here in
“This vast network of tunnels buried far
beneath earth's surface now extends from Hyderabad India, around the northern tip
of the Arabian Sea, through the land bridge south of Jordan, across Egypt and
extending northwest to areas above Pearyland.
“Networks now believed to have been
destroyed
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by quakes were marked from an unknown location in the
Bermuda Islands back to
“Others will form automatically when drawn
on a world map. Bermuda and its triangle carry equal mystery
as that of Yucatan, Bandeirante, Easter Island,
And
finally, pages 30-31 of the same volume carry the following words:
"...There are facts regarding these
inner caverns where some surface dwellers (such as you and I) have wandered
into various tunnel openings and were never seen again. There are to date more
than nine dozes accounts where people from our surface have entered cave
openings and again, have not been heard from since the day of entry. There is
no way to verify if they became hopelessly lost, and ventured beyond the point
of no return or actually wandered into Utopia far in the depths of our earth.
“It is however, the author’s opinion that
not all of these odd nine dozen so-called adventurers lost their way to the
point of no return. If, on the other hand, some did manage to escape detection
on their journey and eventually reached a subterranean city, I could not even
hazard a guess as to whether they would still be alive and reaping the benefits
of an ultra-modern garden of Eden or befell disaster as an
unwelcome intruder and immediately sentenced to a death fitting for this
unforgettable sin of trespassing into another world."
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The
following letter appeared in the November, 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES
magazine, on page 174:
“Sirs: Here is some information you may have; if
not, this can be added to the Shaver Mystery.
“I will reveal no names or how I came across
this as it might involve the Ordinance officer who told it to some friends of
mine.
“Recently in
“Kenneth Henderson., 1441
*******
The
following statement, made by Raymond A. Palmer, former editor of AMAZING
STORIES magazine, was recorded on page 176 of the September, 1947 issue of that
publication:
"...As for your editor, he can give you
some of the information you want. For instance, we have close to 15,000 letters
from pro and con readers concerning the Shaver Mystery (AMAZING STORIES was a
very popular science ‘fact-ion’ - or science fact / science fiction - magazine
during the mid-1940's, and it still a very popular magazine today... - Branton).
“We have perhaps 3,000 from people who have
had similar experiences! We no longer
count letters -- we weigh them."
*******
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The
following is part of a letter which appeared on pages 172-173 of the March,1948 issue of AMAZING STORIES:
“Sirs:
...Then there is the Brotherhood of the White Temple of 1600 Logan Street,
Denver, Colorado, owned and operated by Dr. Doreal
and Dr. Ramose. This is another order
that tells tall stories of giants, underground cities, and the pyramid of
magnetic fire that always points toward the Sun on a magnetic belt deep in the earth,
and many tales that stretch the imagination..." --- G. H. Spaulding.,
*******
Pages
355-356 of ‘The Word’ (a series of volumes dealing with the occult) contains
the following information in the issue for Sept. 1917:
"...With elemental aid man will learn
the geography of the earth. At present he knows little about the earth and its
structure. All he knows is something about the seeming outline of the surface,
the outer skin of the earth. Aside from the so-called geography there is an
occult geography. Of this he can know nothing except what he will learn with
the aid of... the use of some faculties of his mind (see THE WORD.,
Vol. 11, page 193) which are now unworkable as adamant.
“Within the skin of the earth are other
earths and earth organs, of which man has not as yet even dreamed. Within the
earth are other earths and oceans and airs and fires, each of them peopled by
beings, some of them human in form and others strange beyond fancy...."
*******
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Pages 182-183 of "AN INTRODUCTION TO
FOLK-LORE", by Marian Roalfe Cox carries the following passage:
"...The idea of bliss is not
incomparable with underground abode. Legends tell of many a blissful sojourn in
subterranean fairy-halls. In folk-tales, little children who are good fall into
wells, and pass through green meadows to the house of the friendly Frau Holda. A well-known Chinese legend relates how two friends,
wandering among the mountains in search of medicinal herbs, come to a
fairy-bridge guarded by two maidens of superhuman loveliness, who invited them
to cross into fairyland.
“The blissful period spent with the
fairy-folk seems but as yesterday when it is passed; yet when the friends fulfill
their desire to revisit their earthly home, they find that seven generations
have lived and died during their absence, and they themselves are centenarians
..."
*******
Pages 411-412 of Harriette
Augusta Curtiss' book, "THE MESSAGE OF AQUARIA", carries the following information:
"....If it were possible to shut off
all the other planetary forces and focus the Martian force it could be used to
bore a tunnel clear through the earth. We are told that the Masters have
constructed wonderful tunnels under continents and oceans through the help of
the elements, but the elements and forces so used were not of Earth but of
Mars. Engineers say that they could tunnel through the earth even now if they
could remove the debris as the greater depths were reached, but with the use of
the Martian force there would be no debris to be taken out, for the sides of
the tunnel
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would be compressed and fused and whatever
resisted could be volatilized, and the tunnel, when completed, would endure as
long as the planet itself.
“By the use of this force all the great
Centers on Earth can be connected when the time comes."
*******
Pages
30 and 81 of the book, “GODS AND RITUALS”, by John Middleton, carries the
following:
“...In the cosmogony of the Amba there is another world under this one and our earth is
the sky of this other world. Rain, for
instance, soaks through the earth and rains once more in the world below.
"...the world contains certain other
invisible creatures - the ‘people from below’ (i.e., living inside the earth),
who are ‘good’ people, for example, anxious to insure
rain for the humans...” (Otoro tradition)
*******
Page
155 of "THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE SAVAGES", by Bronislaw
Malinowski, carries the following passage:
"According to active tradition, mankind
originated from the underworld, whence a coupler, a brother and sister, emerged
at different specified places. According to certain legends, only women
appeared first. Some of my commentators insisted upon this version: ‘You see, we are so many on this earth because many women came
first. Had there been many men, we would be few.’”
*******
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On
pages 176-177 of John Godwin's volume, "OCCULT
"...It is at this point that the UFO
syndrome gets inextricably tangled with a row of underworld themes, bringing in
earth gods, dwarfs, giants, subterranean serpents, and the whole kingdom of
Pan, complete with the fauns, centaurs and satyrs of classic mythology.
“A number of spiritualist organizations hold
that these creatures - plus others undreamed of by the ancients - are alive and
exceedingly active in the bowels of the earth.
The ‘Borderland Sciences Research’ Associates of
“But with the coming of the UFO, a new
dimension was added to the picture. One set of beliefs merged with another, so
today we have the cavern creatures increasingly identified with outer space
beings. Often to such an extent that the term Venusian,
for example, could denote a (reptilian) inhabitant of sub-Antarctica as easily
as a planetary dweller -- simply according to who uses it."
*******
The
following comes from Robert Charroux's book, “THE
GODS UNKNOWN", page 206:
“...Think of the pointer of a compass: it
shows where the greatest magnetic forces of the earth are concentrated, and
yet, geographically, there are places where apparently nothing at all happens.
“It might be, therefore, that Agartha (i.e. ‘Agharta’ - Branton) is either at the north
Pole or
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under the
*******
The
following passages, putting forward the idea that beings exist below the
earth's surface (according to some interpretations), may be found in the Holy
Bible:
"And no MAN in heaven, nor in earth, neither UNDER the earth, was able to open the
book, neither to look thereon." -- Revelation, CH.5 vs.3
"There
were GIANTS IN the earth in those days...” -- Genesis, CH.6 vs.4
"And
every CREATURE which is in heaven, and on earth, and UNDER THE EARTH..."
-- Revelation, CH.5 vs.13
"That
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things UNDER THE EARTH..." –– Philippians, CH.2 vs.10
“Now
that he ascended, what is it but that he also DESCENDED first into the LOWER
PARTS OF THE EARTH?" -- Ephesians, CH.4 vs.9
"For
as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son
of man be three days and three night in the HEART OF THE EARTH." -- St.
Matthew, CH.12 vs.40
*******
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The
following quote comes from Benjamin F. Johnson, and appeared in LIFE'S REVIEW
(Independence, Mo., Zion's Printing and Publishing Co., 1947. P 93):
"...Some think the earth hollow and at
the northern end of the earth there is a great hole. They fancy that the earth
is inhabited inside with a race of people, said by some to be what is called
the ten-tribes, as the statement is made that they (the lost tribes of
"...and if this be so
it is more than likely that they are a numberous
people. If they are inside the earth, I think that their cry for a long
time has been: give us room that we may dwell." ("The North
Pole.," The
"...In adding his theory, the writer of
the Era goes on to state the possibilities of a warmer region in the north. And
that some day, explorers MAY find the ten tribes who likewise may also be
searching for their brethren of the other two tribes." (ie. The tribes of Judah and
Benjamin)
The
most widely accepted source of information on the Lost Tribes of Israel can be
found in the ‘APOCRYPHA’, which according to Jews and Christians alike are
‘books’ that are not considered to be ‘Divinely penned scripture’, but rather
collections of Jewish tradition and history. One can read the following in the
Apocryphal book of II Esdras 13:40-48:
"...And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto
him; those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their
own land in the time of Csea the king,
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whom Salmonasar the
king of
*******
Page
77 of John W. Dean's book, "FLYING SAUCERS CLOSE-UP", carries the
following information on the Hollow Earth theory:
"It is true that we have several books
along that line, along with some vague stories and rumors. One of the earliest
and most definite was an old issue of the magazine SHOWERS OF BLESSING
(Published by the Rev. William R. Blessing). It showed sectional diagrams of
Earth -- a shell 300 miles thick, having openings at each end... somewhat like
a coconut with holes at the ends with rounded edges. I noted that they were
drawn about 1910."
(Note: Some claim that if these ‘holes’ do
exist, then why do they not appear in satellite photos? Well, first of all,
there ARE satellite
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photos which raise some suspicions, if you do a
net-search for the words “polar hole photos”, for instance. Next, these holes
are allegedly concealed most of the time by thick polar cloud cover, or by some
other phenomena, such as a dimensional phenomena!? The government of course has not released any
evidence to the existence of these vortexes for obvious reasons. - Branton)
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Pages
30-31 of the book, "RAINBOW CITY AND THE INNER EARTH PEOPLE", by
‘Michael X’, contains the following interesting information concerning Marshal
B. Gardner (now deceased) who was the author of the volume, "A Journey To
The Earth's Interior", one of the earlier books to put forward the idea of
a geo-concavetic or ‘hollow’ sphere:
"By
means of (electromagnetically assisted ‘thought transference’) I received the
following message:
“‘...There are entrances leading into the interior of the earth. One located at the Polar region, but not at the spot present exploration has covered. The opening is at distance some 1800 miles from the North Pole. Another opening is 2400 miles from the South Pole. These openings are not nearly as large as (some have) calculated... nor are they easy to find. The Inner earth people keep those entrances well concealed and camouflaged by their advanced scientific knowledge and superphysical abilities.’
“At this point the communication was brought
to a close. I was permitted to ask no more questions at that session. But much
of value had been revealed. Since then I've learned a number of other vital
facts about the Inner Earthians.
“Most important, perhaps, is the fact that a
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great
‘housecleaning’ has been going on within those inner earth realms -- in the
great cavern cities -- and the negative, destructive entities are being removed
by the friends and brothers from other advanced worlds. Both astral and
physical levels of the inner earth are being cleaned out in preparation for the
coming Golden Age on earth.”
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Page
62 of Raymond Bernard's book, "THE HOLLOW EARTH", puts forward the
following speculations:
"Gravitational pull is strongest around
the curve from the exterior to the interior of the Earth. A 150 pound man would
probably weigh 300 pounds while sailing through the polar opening and around
the curve from the outside to the inside of the Earth. When he reached the
inside he would weigh only 75 pounds. This is because less force is needed to
hold a body to the inside of a hollow ball in rotation than to hold it to the
outside, due to centrifugal force."
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The
following statements can be found on pages 77 & 218 of the book, “FLYING
SAUCERS CLOSEUP”, by John W. Dean:
"The
foregoing does not prove that there are not great caverns in Earth's crust with
openings in
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Page
8 of Tim Beckley's book, "THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD", gives the
following information concerning another entrance in
"Another source of tunnel information
may be a huge monolith of perpendicular rock, which stands apart from its
native habitat, the mountains. This rock is of lava,
and how it was erected or who erected it is lost in the ages of antiquity, long
before the Incas came on the scene.
“The huge monolith stands alone on the
shore at Ila, a small town in the southern tip of
“When Mme. Blavatsky visited
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archives of the Theosophical Society."
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Page
313 of the book, "BEASTS, MEN, AND GODS", by Ferdinand Ossendowski, records the following prophecies, made in 1890
by the (so-called) ‘King of the World’, who is/was said to reside in the
subterranean kingdom of ‘Agharta’ or ‘Agharti’. Quoting from the volume:
"...The Hutuktu
of Narabanchi related the following to me, when I
visited him in his monastery in the beginning of 1921:
"When the King of the World appeared
before the Lamas, favored of God, in this monastery thirty years ago he made a
prophecy for the coming half century. It was as follows (Note: It may be that
the ‘half century’ interpretation may have been the author’s idea, as many of
these predictions were not fulfilled by the year 1971, 50 years following 1921.
- Branton):
"'More
and more people will forget their souls and care about their bodies. The
greatest sin and corruption will reign on the earth. People will become as
ferocious animals, thirsting for the blood and death of their brothers. The
'Crescent' will grow dim and its followers will descend into beggary and
ceaseless war. It’s
conquerors will be stricken by the sun but will not progress upward and twice
they will be visited with the heaviest misfortune, which will end in insult
before the eye of the other peoples. The crowns of kings, great and small, will
fall... one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...
There will be a terrible battle among all the peoples.
“‘The seas will become red... the earth and
the bottom of the seas will be strewn with bones...
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kingdoms will be scattered... whole peoples will
die... hunger, disease, crimes unknown to the law, never before seen in the
world. The enemies of God... will come. Those who take the hand of another
shall also perish. The forgotten and pursued shall rise up and hold the
attention of the whole world. There will be fogs and storms. Bare mountains
shall suddenly be covered with forests. Earthquakes will come... Millions will
change the fetters of slavery and humiliation for hunger, disease and death.
The ancient roads will be covered with crowds wandering from one place to
another.
“‘The greatest and most beautiful cities
shall perish in fire... one, two, three... Father
shall rise against son, brother against brother and mother against daughter...
Vice, crime and the destruction of body and soul shall follow... Families shall
be scattered... Truth and love shall disappear... From ten thousand men one
shall remain; he shall be nude and mad and without force and the knowledge to
build himself a house and find his food... He will howl as the raging wolf,
devour dead bodies, bite his own flesh and challenge God to fight...
“‘All the earth will be emptied. God will
turn away from it and over it there will only be night and death. Then I shall
send a people, now unknown, which shall tear out the weeds of madness and vice
with a strong hand and will lead those who still remain faithful to the spirit
of man in the fight against Evil. They will found a new life on the earth
purified by the death of nations... Afterwards there will be eighteen years of
war and destruction. Then the peoples of Agharti will
come up from their subterranean caverns to the surface of the earth.’”
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The
following information comes from a booklet by TAL Levesque, titled
"REFLECTIONS”. The underworld journey described below is remarkably
similar to that which is described In John Uri Lloyd's book,
"ETIDORHPA" (Available from: Amherst Press., Amherst, Wisconsin.,
54406):
"THINKING
AND DESTINY", by Harold W. Percival., Word Publishers (1946):
“...Inside and outside of the crust of the
earth, are spherical zones. Inside the crust and the zones are races and
entities, some superior and some inferior to the human race. During certain
cycles divine kings (perfected doers) come from the interior earth to teach and
rule over human beings on the crust.
“SECTION 5 - The Way in The
Earth.
“The companion meets the on-goer and makes himself known... ‘I
am here to help you on a part of the journey. Are you ready to go and to have
me as your guide?’
“Together the companion and the on-goer go from place to placer... When the time comes the
companion leads the on-goer to an opening into the
earth... a new guide appears. The on-goer and his
guide leave the surface and enter the earth.
“Gradually the on-goer
becomes accustomed to the darkness and sees by a new kind of light. They come to a new worlds inside the earth crust, a world existing on
many levels. The new world is like
spaces in a sponge; some of the chambers, passages and labyrinths are vast in
size, hundreds of miles long and high, and some only small pockets. He sees
strange things in many colors, landscapes, cliffs, some of crystal. He sees by
an inner earth light, which is made by a mingling of
transient units. There is no night and no day. There are no shadows, except at
the outer limits of
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the inner earth light. He travels on foot or at times
in vehicles made of metal.
“The vehicles glide like a sled over the
magnetic ground.
“The guide takes him through many countries,
in which are varieties of human beings. They travel along different layers and
from one layer to others. Different conditions exist on the different layers.
Thus the force of gravity is strongest near the outer crust and after that
point is passed, decreases gradually as they advance into the crust, and
finally ceases (according to some, this would be the gravitational ‘null’ zone
between the inward ‘pull’ of the outer crust and the centrifugal outward ‘push’
of the rotating inner surface - Branton).
“The on-goer sees
many peoples. Nearest to the crust the races are wild and degenerate; they eat
raw flesh and drink strong intoxicants. But farther in the people are peaceable
and cultured. Nearly all races are white (no doubt due largely to the lack of
the ‘tanning effect’ of direct sunlight - Branton).
Some of them are acquainted with the earth and have powers over its forces.
“The people in the earth crust are human
beings, but who are not (directly) akin to any human race NOW on the crust.
Some have never left the interior. The on-goer meets
people of the race to which his guide belongs.
“During these wanderings the guide explains
the structure of the inner earth, its forces and history, the phenomena and
their causes and reactions. He explains the illusions of time and of the
dimensions of matter and the relative reality of all these things, which are
seen as illusions. He explains that the on-goer must
balance his thoughts, and that the end of The Way is in the balancing. The on-goer says: ‘I will go on alone.’”
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A
former acquaintance of mine (mid-1980's) by the name of Christine Hayes, at the
time living in
“...a
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Pages
48-49 of Raymond Bernard's book, "FLYING SAUCERS FROM THE EARTHS
INTERIOR", records the following account:
"Recently the Brazilian press and radio
announced that a party of geologists and other scientists entered one of the
many tunnels that open on the tops of mountains here (evidently constructed by
an antediluvian race of ‘Atlanteans’ before the
Deluge), and after descending some distance, came to a subterranean city. Then
a sudden fright seized the party, and they fled before they entered the city.
They refused to return or to reveal what made them get frightened. Perhaps the
city was inhabited and perhaps its inhabitants did not want to be molested and
projected certain types of radiations on them..." (Compare this with other
rumors that many Incas actually disappeared into the subterranean world - Branton)
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Page
159 of Andrew Tomas's book, "ON THE SHORES OF
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ENDLESS
WORLDS", records the following account, which is perhaps a reference to
the
"...The Jesuit Agnelio
Oliva (1572-1642) recorded the words of an old Inca quipu reader to the effect that the real
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The
following accounts come from page 242 of "THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN
FOLK-LORE” - Vol-52:
"...The Cubeo
Indians, a Tukano-speaking people, live at present
along the Cuduiari, Querari,
Pirabaton, and Vaupes rivers in southeastern
"...The Cubeo
are a river people, and according to their traditions their ancestors first
EMERGED from the rocks at river rapids; thereafter all the Cubeo
lived along the rivers."
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Pages 248-249 of the same work contains the following information:
"The Caraja
are an isolated people inhabiting a large territory slightly north of the
geographical center of
"...In the underworld, the original
home of the Caraja, there was neither sickness nor
death. As the emergence myth states, ‘More people kept being born. Nobody died.
There wasn't enough room. When a man got old, he sat there in one place without
moving. Kaboi couldn't add any more houses to the
village. It was full. A new father was lying on the mat. It was time to eat
honey. He went off hunting honey. While he was hunting he heard a ‘seriema’ (Portuguese name of a bird) sing. He scooped a
hole toward it and came out. He found fruit at once and decided to return. When
he got back he gave his folk the fruit to taste. They found it very good and
wanted to come out. They invited the others to come with them. Wobedu sent his folk out first and he went first among
them. Kaboi came among the last. He got stuck in the
hole. His belly was too big. He decided to go back. It was a dead leaf that he
spied. He spoke to his wife, 'Let's go back. There is death there.' They went
back again..."
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The
following passage appeared in an article titled "Subterranean Saucers -
Global Network Of Underground UFO Bases", by
Raymond Bond, which appeared on page 58 of the 1980 issue of UFO ANNUAL:
"In the
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according to the local people,
resemble those made by hydroelectric generating equipment. There is no
hydroelectric plant within
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The
following two accounts can be found on pages 79-82 of Warren Smith's book,
"THIS HOLLOW EARTH":
"In his book, ‘Mysteries of Ancient
South America’ (The Citadal Press., New York., 1956),
author Harold T. Wilkins related that in March 1942, a Mr. and Mrs. Lamb (no
other identification) from
“‘The Lambs told the President that the
gold sheets recorded history back beyond the great flood,' reported Gunther Rosenberg. 'The Indian
tribesmen seldom visited the secret city, except to worship. Then they held
ritualistic ceremonies in the Mayan temple and worshiped their ancient gods of
the underworld,'
“'This may be the same lost city mentioned
by Abbe Charles Etienne Brasseur-deBourbourg,
the scholarly, religious administrator of
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"...J. Lloyd Stephens, an adventurer,
traveler and a friend of Madame Blavatsky, was exploring the areas of western
“'There are ruins beyond
“‘Stephens motioned for his porters to march
toward the city. 'I was extremely excited at the
thought of finding a lost metropolis In this dense
green jungle,' he said later.
“'”This is as far as a white man may go,” an
elderly Indian Informed Stephens. “The people in that city know that white
invaders have conquered this land. They murder any white man who enters the
city.”
“'”How have they remained undiscovered for
so many years?” asked Stephens. “They have no coins, no livestock, or domestic
animals,” said the old Indian. “The buildings you see are not inhabited,
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They
have left the city and moved underground to save themselves from the white
invaders.”
“'”How do they live underground?” inquired
Lloyd Stephens. “Without sunlight, they would surely die after a few weeks in a
cave.”
“‘The old Indian looked at the explorer with
amusement. “There are many secrets in this world,” he said. “These people have
known the formula for the great light for thousands of years.”
“'”What great light?”
“‘The Indian pointed to the earth and up
into the cloudy sky. “The great light is the secret of all things,” he said.
“It was given to these people many years ago by the gods from beneath the
earth.”
“‘Stephens argued with his Indian packers,
but he was unable to convince them to enter the city. Frustrated, his curiosity
at a fevered pitch, Lloyd Stephens reluctantly followed his guides down the Rio
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