From: The Unknown Wyoming, by Mary Martin (the HOLLOW HASSLE Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 1 - October, 1981):
MEDICINE WHEEL - To those who seek to restore the holy places to their rightful aspect, none is more sacred than the mysterious and brooding Medicine Wheel. It lies high in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, at an elevation of 9,640 feet above sea level...
Indian legends tell of an underground cavern beneath the wheel in which the Alumdumbay, or "Little People" lived. These were very wise people, and great chiefs and medicine men went to this cave to learn wisdom. Wilford South, in a letter to me before his death, stated the following about Medicine Wheel:
"Medicine Wheel was the Venusian base in earlier times; I would venture to remark that this mountain site could well be a centre cone leading to an underground city."
From the Hefferlin Manuscript, printed by the BSRF (Borderland Sciences Research Foundation), we get the following regarding a tunnel in Wyoming:
"Another branch line ends in northwestern Wyoming, due west of Sheridan and some two hundred feet or more up the side of a mountain. This tunnel seems to have been twisted and sheared off, leaving a distorted and pinched outlet. When we consider the great density and toughness of the metal lining the tunnels, a metal that even earthquakes and great land mass movements cannot break, we wonder what titanic force sheared and twisted the Sheridon tunnel end."
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NEWS STORY: EXPLORERS DESCRIBE HUGE CAVE IN WEST
Sheridan, Wyo (UPI) - A group of explorers have emerged from a cave in Northern Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains, saying it may be the deepest ever found in the nation. The team of six men and one woman, all from the Sheridan area and ranging in age from 23 to 40, spent two weeks in what they dubbed the Great Expectations Cave, squeezing through narrow passages, swimming through pools over their heads and sleeping in darkness so black they often wondered whether their eyes for open or shut. They reached an estimated 900 feet depth before stopping... The country's deepest cave - Neffs Cave in Utah - is less than 1,200 ft. deep. ... The group reached a barrier they couldn't overcome without other equipment, but he declined to say what the barrier was.
"We don't want to tell anybody that," ... "Right now we're one jump ahead of some other people and we don't want to give it away." (SOURCE: ROCKY MT> NEWS - 3/35/80)
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TONGUE RIVER CAVE
The canyon looks insignificantly different than so many others in the state. Sharply-cut walls jut almost vertically from the shores of a ragged mountain river that plummets down from the high country. But far below the familiar territorial features of the Tongue River Canyon lies another world where the glimmering sunlight and Prussian-blue sky never penetrate and darkness reigns supreme.
Spiraling down into the depths of the earth from a perch 400 feet above the cascading river is an enormous limestone cavern extending 6,700 feet into the subterranean world. Here in the nocturnal recesses lies an extensive network of tunnels, crawlway and rooms varying from tight constrictions barely allowing a person to crawl through, to an immense amphitheater known as the Boulder Room, Twisting down from a sloping room at the entrance of the cave, the main passageway leads to a long, high-ceilinged hallway known as Rainroom Number One, so named because of the continual dripping of underground water.
Rainroom No. One is the first of two such rooms encountered in the cave. Beyond this, through a long spiraling tunnel known as the Corkscrew, and past the Boulder Room flows an underground stream, which in 1961 was discovered to be an underground portion of the north fork of the Little Tongue River. Passageways are found both up and downstream, with the upper tunnel leading to a small waterfall and eventually disappearing into a siphon.
Downstream a waterfall plunges 24-feet down to the cave floor. Unlike many areas of the U.S., Wyoming has only a few caves where diving is possible, though the Tongue River Cave is one such spot where it is thought additional caverns may be found by diving into the siphon where the stream enters the cave
