From: Steve Wingate 
Subject: CAVERNS, DUNGEONS AND LABYRINTHS, by Branton (Part 1) (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 04:31:51 -0700 (PDT)


                           FILE NO. 007

 C A V E R N S,   D U N G E O N S   A N D   L A B Y R I N T H S


     In this 'File' we will examine reports of ancient subterrain
excavations, the very reality of which presupposes the existence of
scientifically-advanced races which reigned perhaps thousands of years
ago, excavations that had apparently been constructed before the
deluge and, in some cases, following it.  The account which we record
below appeared in the Oct. 1947 issue of 'AMAZING STORIES' science
fiction/science fact magazine, pp. 171-172:

"Sirs:

     "Norman Finley, a neighbor of a good friend of mine, told me
about an experience he had which was rather unusual.  He and a couple
of other fellows were hunting down in the Big Bend country.  I don't
know whether you are familiar with the Big Bend or not, but there is
no more wild or desolate area in the country.  Rugged, mountainous,
cut by canyons, there are innumerable parts of it which have never
known the foot of man.

     "It was in one of the most desirable areas that Finley and his
companions found themselves.  They had driven about ninety miles
southwest of Marathon, Texas, a little town of about 700 people, at
the foot of the Del Norte Mountains, 4000 feet high, and had then gone
on afoot.  The dirt road just petered out and they couldn't get their
car further.  They were hunting deer but had no luck.  Just as they
were about to call it a day, Finley spotted a mountain lion.  He
snapped a shot at it and knocked it over.  But the lion just rolled
over on his feet and started to leave those parts.

     "Finley and the other fellows took after him since it was obvious
that he was wounded and not making very good time.  They managed to
keep him in sight for about a mile and were sure they had him when he
ran into a box canyon.  The lion, however, started up a faint trail up
one side of the canyon to a small cave they could see about a hundred
feet from the floor of the canyon.  They followed him up this trail,
but when they got to the cave--there was no lion!

     "The cave was one of those dished-out affairs that are so common
in the southwest.  Eroded out of the face of a cliff and cup-shaped.
The only access to it was by that trail.  But this cave was a bit
queer.  It had a sand floor and was just about big enough to park
twenty cars in it.  On the cliff edge was a low STONE WALL.  This in
itself was not too unusual, because such caves have sheltered Indians
for thousands of years.

     "The thing that did make it unusual was that in the rear of it
was a perfectly round hole.  It was obvious that the lion had ducked
into this.

     "They approached it rather cautiously and tossed some stones in
it to see if they could stir him up.  But there was no response.  They
could hear the stones rolling and bouncing down an incline and the
sound just got fainter and fainter until it died away altogether.

     "They then approached the hole and peered down into it.  It was
perfectly round--also it was about four or five feet in diameter.
They couldn't see very far down it, but it appeared to descend rather
sharply and at a steady gradient.  The fellows gathered some dry grass
from the canyon floor and made some torches.  The incline of the bore
was too steep for them to climb down so they tossed the torches down
it.  They just slid down further and further and disappeared into the
gloom.  They never did see or hear of the lion again.

     "At first they thought they had stumbled onto some old Spanish
mine workings.  But there was no sign anywhere of a dump that always
goes with a mine.  By all rights there should have been some sign of
the earth and rock that hd come out of that hole--but there wasn't.

     "When they inspected the hole itself more closely, they were
amazed at it's symmetry and at the consistency of the section of the
bore as far as they could see down it.  The fact that the bore was
perfectly round puzzled them, too.  If it was a mine shaft, it most
certainly wouldn't have been round, but instead would have been flat
on the bottom.  The fact that the shaft extended straight and
unwavering as a rigid pipe was cause for further amazement.  Since the
fellows had no rope with them, which would have been needed to descend
the shaft, as well as lights, they scratched their heads awhile and
then left.

     "Finley wanted to go back with equipment and see how far down the
shaft went and what was at the bottom of it.  But ranchers are busy
people and he never went back.  In the meantime he got pretty well
broken up when a horse threw him and he now lives in Fort Worth while
he has someone else to run the ranch. We talked rather idly about
having a look at his cave someday. He says he knows exactly where it
is and could find that box canyon with his eyes shut.  So far we
haven't done anything about it.  But we may either this summer or next
when we get time to go down to Big Bend.

     "Finley told me this story about a year before even you heard of
Shaver so you can be sure he wasn't influenced by the 'Shaver
Mystery.'  In fact, I don't believe he has ever heard of the 'Shaver
Mystery,' even to this day.

     "E. Stanton Brown.,  4931 Bryce Ave.,  Fort Worth 7, Texas."


     Another letter, dated Jan. 1948, appeared in 'AMAZING STORIES'
magazine also confirming that strange 'para-speleon' phenomena exists
in the western part of Texas.  However the artifacts described in the
following letter seem to involve areas north of Big Bend, not far from
the Guadellupe Mts. and the New Mexico border.  Perhaps this account
is a partial confirmation of a subterranean connection between areas
BELOW the Big Bend of Texas and the Guadellupe range of southern New
Mexico -nrthwestern Texas.  Quoting from the letter:

"Sirs:

     "Since I have been an interested reader of AMAZING STORIES since
my high school days (1929) when A-S was a bigger magazine, I feel like
one of the family when I read the letters in the discussion pages.
The temptation has arisen many times to write a letter to you
concerning some hotly discussed matter, but something has always
prevented me from getting at it.  However, the October Issue pushed me
too far, and here goes.

     "The mysterious cave Mr. E. Stanton Brown spoke of in his letter
is not exactly news to me.  In 1938 a party of six of my friends and
myself spent seven months in that area of Texas, and upper Mexico.  We
were testing an electronic instrument that we had developed, and
needed lots of space and some mineral deposits for the various tests.
So, we got rather well acquainted with the Big Bend country, and the
Figure 2 Ranch north of there.  We arrived there in January and camped
IN THE SIERRA BLANCAS, storing a lot of our equipment at the town of
Van Horn.  By march we had gotten deep into the rugged country and as
I recall, it was about the middle of March we stumbled onto this cave
(or a twin) that Mr. Brown speaks of in his letter.  Everyone was so
dumbfounded by it that we spent the better part of the rest of the
month in making a thorough investigation.  We penetrated the shaft to
a distance of 870 feet and at about 650 feet found some very finely
executed writing on the right wall at eye level, IN WHAT RESEMBLES
CUNEIFORM.  At 800 feet one of the party fell over a cloth lying in
the dust, and upon closer examination, it was found to be part of a
blue shirt, of fairly recent manufacture; indicating that someone else
had been this far in recent times. This and an empty pint whisky
bottle dated 1897 was all we located to indicate recent occupation.
Of course in a country where desperadoes such as Black Jack, Billy the
Kid, etc., hid out where they could and the more solitary the better,
such a find was not too surprising.

     "At bout 780 feet the floor dips more sharply downward and at
near 900 feet progress is very hazardous due to moisture and increased
slant downward.  We carried rocks from the opening, and rolled them
from the point where we could no longer walk, but they simply faded
out with a rumble after a few seconds.  We tried rolling flaming yucca
stumps to see if, perhaps, we might determine more about the bore
further on, but this proved to be futile, since the stumps burned
poorly at best, probably due to bad air.  It was very stuffy and hot
after the first 300 feet from the opening.  We held a powwow to try
and figure out how we could go further down, but the only thing would
have been lots of lariat ropes, or a long steel cable, and neither was
available nearer than some 50 miles.

     "If Mr. Finley had taken the time to go hunting up in the Figure
2 Ranch territory he might have run across another, and to me more
interesting, cave than the Big Bend one.  About 62 miles (north -
Branton) from the town of Van Horn you go through the salt-flat
country, where the Salt Wars of the old west occurred. Westward, some
8 or 9 miles from the road is the Apache Canyon country, and as rugged
as anywhere on the face of the globe.  In an offshoot of Apache Canyon
to the south, is an almost impassable gash called Hell Canyon.  The
walls of this canyon rise precipitously for at least 1000 feet and top
out on Apache Peak on one side and an old Indian ceremonial ground on
the other side.  More desolate country would be hard to imagine.
Coyotes and mountain lions are plentiful, and panthers no novelty.  I
have seen as many as 34 deer in a herd down below on the grassy ledge
sloping down toward the canyon floor.  Of course, further up toward
the box end of the canyon it was much too rugged for deer, but a few
mountain sheep are seen, (it was) in the wildest part of the canyon
that the other cave was found, in fact we almost fell into it.  The
high grass about the opening hid the dished out entrance.

     "We were at an elevation of approimately 7000 feet and going was
tough, especially with a pack, and we had stopped to rest when one of
the party remarked that it 'sounded hollow' when any of us talked.  Of
course, we all yapped away at the same time trying to figure if this
was so, and sure enough it was.  Further investigation located the
hole some six feet to the left of where we had stopped.  It was
roughly oval in shape, some 30 by 18 feet; and bridged in the center
the short way by a natural rock arch heavy enough to support an
elephant.  In the center of the arch were 3 deep grooves caused we
hazarded, by rope passing over the arch.  We spent several hours in
investigating the surrounding terrain to see if there might be any
other entrances to the cave, but found none.  It sloped sharply from
the opening down about 200 feet, and then the bore disappeared,
curving upward.  We succeeded in getting down to the first level, by
tying all our ropes together, and subsequently investigated a lot of
it.

     "Threading through the soil were long stringers of quartz, but
oddly enough at the same time there were chunks of rock as big as a
piano that were solid masses of seashells.  Quite a lot of pottery
both broken and whole, was found.  The most interesting thing was,
however, that the farther we went the colder it got.  Also there was a
sound of either rushing wind or water, which got louder the lower we
went.  We came upon two human skeletons not over 500 feet from the
entrance, but they must have been very old, as the bones crumbled at
the touch. Everything was covered with a deep dust after passing the
bend and no indication of any living thing having passed there was
ever noted.  It was very dark and depressing, and the chill was very
penetrating.  When you consider that the outside temperature was near
100 degrees, you can imagine how we were dressed.  We had three
flashlights, one a five cell, and after a while it was all that was
left that would give a decent light.  Down at what we estimated as
1200 feet from the opening we came smack up against a smooth stone
wall.  That was it.  The end.  None of us would admit it was natural,
it was too smooth and perfect, and look as we would we could not find
a single flaw or crack in it. It was of a marble-like texture and some
eight or nine feet high in the center and around eleven wide.  By
placing our ears to the rock surface THE ROARING ON THE OTHER SIDE
BECAME MUCH LOUDER, AND THE ROCK WAS QUITE COLD TO THE TOUCH.  There
was natural marble near there, in Marble Canyon, where marble was once
taken out in large quantities, and so the rock was native rock, I'm
sure.  Since the remaining light was all we had except matches, we
voted to get back to the opening as soon as possible, and after a hard
struggle upgrade we got back to daylight and held a conferenc.  We
decided to bed down and talk it over further the next day, as it was
getting late.

     "However, the next day we were inclined to look foolishly at each
other and claim it was all our imagination thinking there was anything
strange on the other side of the barrier, and it was just another one
of those many caves in the country.  Carlsbad is just 65 miles north
of there, AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS NO DOUBT HONEYCOMBED UNDERNEATH.

     "We finished our experiments and left, late in July but I have
never been able to forget the caves, and THE ODD SOUNDS ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THAT BARRIER.  Or for that matter, the barrier itself, for it
was too perfect to be natural, I believe.  Or, maybe I've just read
too many AMAZING STORIES,' and am inclined to wild ideas.  As the
Mexicans say, Quien sabe?

     "Some day I'm going to write you a ding-how Scientifiction on
something-or-other, and then place it and my rejection notice among my
souvenirs.  Maybe then I can go on reading AMAZING STORIES in peace,
without wanting to dash off a dinger.

     "K. A. Gookin.,  Carmel Radio & Sound Service.,  Box 1865.,
Carmel, California."

     (Note: It is unlikely that the writers of the two letters which
we have just quoted would be able to be reached at the addresses
given.  We've merely given them as they appeared in AMAZING STORIES
magazine in the late 1940's. - Branton)


     At this point we will mention several miscellaneous items
connected with paraspeleology, speleanthropology, subsurface phenomena
and related subjects:

     A researcher by the name of Frank D. Adams has written on the
result of his personal scientific experiments which may prove that
giant cavities exist in granite at depths of more than 11 miles,
conclusions which have also been supported by Louis V. King, a
mathematician who calculated that, at normal temperatures, a cavity
would exist at a depth of between 17.2 and 20.9 miles.  The authors'
findings are also supported by the recently discovered "16 Rouse
Belts" which give planes of fracture penerating the globe.

     Dr. Ron Anjard, in an article in the Summer, 1978 issue of
PURSUIT Magazine, claimed personal knowledge of 44 underground cities
beneath the surface of North America, six of which are alleged to be
on the West Coast.  His information allegedly comes from anonymous
American Indian sources.  When we relate this to the large number of
migration legends (to and from cavern realms) which exist among the
native Amerindians, then we may conclude that certain tribes still
retain intimate knowledge of underground civilizations related to them
via distant ancestral links.  Some of the elders of these different
tribes, others have suggested, may in fact maintain present contact
with several of these cavern civilizations.  There are some
indications that some such 'tribes' literally moved underground as a
result of the encroaching Anglosaxon civilization upon the America's.
Similar allegations are made in relation to South and Central America
as well.

     Interviews with survivors of a mine explosion in Dec. 26, 1945,
known as the "Belva Mine Disaster", appeared in the Dec. 1981 - Jan.
1982 issues of newspapers in Pineville, Kentucky and elsewhere.  The
interviews revealed that some of the trapped men saw a "door" in one
of the walls open, and a man dressed like a "lumberjack" emerged from
a well-lighted room.  After assuring the men that they would be
rescued, the strange visitor returned to the room and closed the door.
These "lumberjack-like" entities have been described by miners on
other parts of the country and in other nations as well.  There seems
to be some confusion as to whether they are physical or paraphysical
entities.  A somewhat similar incident allegedly took place several
years ago near Shipton, Pennsylvania.  Of the three victims of this
particular mine disaster, only two were rescued. However both
described a similar para-physical encounter with strange 'men' who
entered the caverns and gave light to the two trapped miners and told
them that they would be rescued.  They were unertain whether the
entities were humans or supernatural beings however, as much of their
collective "hallucination" contained both physical as well as
supernatural elements.  The bluish "light" which illuminated the room,
they said, was real, but other holographic-like visuals that appeared
on the walls, when touched by their hands, either disappeared or
revealed solid rock behind.

     R. L. Blain-Sanders, in an article titled 'TUNNELS AND CAVERNS
BENEATH NEW YORK CITY,' which appeared in the Fall, 1981 issue of
SHAVERTRON, described the author's knowledge of a large triangular
system of tunnels utilized by a 'Masonic lodge', deep below the
surface of New York City.  Could this have any connection to the other
'rumors' to the effect that cavernous regions exist below Manhattan?
For instance, in 1962 Con Edison, while drilling a test hole in the
north of East River Park, New York City, broke through to open space
about 200 feet below. Also, there are the allegations of Morris Doreal
that the Church of St. John the Divine in New York was built over
ancient tunnels leading to a dome-shaped city abandoned by
antediluvian 'Atlanteans' and later, apparently, re-established by
post-deluvians.  Then we have the accounts of thousands of people who
have literally and mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth
in and around New York City.

     Raymond Bond, in an article titled 'SUBTERRANEAN SAUCERS -GLOBAL
NETWORK OF UFO BASES', which appeared in SAGA'S UFO ANNUAL 1980
(Brooklyn, N.Y.), described caves within Mt. Sombrero in the Tampica
area of Mexico, from which sounds resembling those made by
'hydroelectric generating equipment' can be heard.  Also, inhabitants
of the interior of Mt. Kilimanjaro were also described.  Kilimanjaro
is one of the highest peaks in Africa.

     Bob Borino, in his article, 'UFO BASES FOUND IN ANTARCTICA'
(Globe, Jan. 18, 1983) quotes from certain scientists who believe that
a subterranean UFO Base is located beneath the strange 'Polynya Sea'
in the Antarctica's Weddell Sea region.

     Malcolm W. Browne, in his article 'UNDERGROUND TUNNELS THREATEN
TOWN IN HUNGARY'S WINE COUNTRY' (NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 8, 1967, p.2)
tells of over 60 miles of ancient tunnel systems of unknown origin and
purpose which have been discovered beneath the town of Eger, Hungary,
some of which have collapsed.  The civilization which built the
tunnels must have been fairly advanced in engineering and science in
order to create such a subterranean system.

     Karl Brugger, in his book 'THE CHRONICLE OF AKAKOR' (Boohi Tree
Books., Delacorte Press., N.Y., 230 pp), gives the history--as given
to the author by one of their chiefs--of the Ugha Mongulala tribesman,
whose ancestors were allegedly part of a vast empire which covered
South America in ancient times.  Some of these ancient people, the
chief claimed, left the planet in aerial vessels to explore other
parts of the solar system and beyond, leaving behind vast subterranean
cities beneath the Andes mountains and western Brazil.  In 1971, due
to the constant encroachment of white settlers or invaders into their
territory, 30,000 survivors of the Ugha Mongulala allegedly escaped to
this ancient system of underground cities, consisting of 13 separate
subterranean complexes all connected by tunnels, one of which is said
to extend to Lima, and others of which are located throughout the
Andes Mountain range of Peru.

     Michael Burke, in his article 'GREEN THING SPARKS RUMORS' (THE
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH, New Kensington, Tarentum and Vandergrift, PA.,
Mar. 5, 1981 issue) described a small creature, allegedly 'half
humanoid - half dinosaur' which was seen emerging from a sewer tunnel
in New Kensington.  A group of children chased the infant or young
dinosauroid creature, one of them momentarily grabbing it at which
point it let out a squealing or screeching sound, and then slipped
from his hands and escaped back into the sewer tunnel.  This incident
took place some miles west of Dixonville, PA., where in 1944 several
miners were killed or turned up missing as a result of ncounters with
'alien' creatures in one particular mineshaft there.  Any connection?

     SAGA Magazine's 'UFO ANNUAL - 1980', P.4, under the heading 'CAVE
MARTIANS', described a bizarre encounter with subterranean creatures
which seemed to have consisted of some type of automaton-like forms,
perhaps on a reconnaissance mission from an underground civilization.
The story involved a tunnel near Xucurus, Argentina(?), some 90 miles
from Buenos Aires.  The tunnel was discovered by agriculturist Gerardo
Cordeire, and found to contain nine connecting passages and strange
inscriptions on the walls.  From it's entrance "men nine feet tall,
green, with antennas on their heads, and square legs" were seen to
emerge, and which, according to HUNDREDS of witnesses from the town
and nearby locals, resembled enormous "portable radios."

     Dr. Earlyne Chaney, in an article titled 'ODYSSEY INTO EGYPT', in
her occult-oriented magazine VOICE OF ASTARA (May, 1982) tells of a
discovery she and researcher Bill Cox was shown in Egypt.  These were
two tunnels, neither of which had been fully explored.  One was in the
temple of Edfu between Luxor and Cairo in the ruins of El Tuna Gabel;
and the other near Zozer's Step Pyramid at Cairo near Memphis-
Saqqarah, within the tomb of the Bull, called "Serapium".  The
Egyptian government sealed both tunnels because of fears of certain
archaeologists who alleged that they "lead too deeply down into the
depths of the earth," and because they found the earth to be
"honeycombed with passages leading off into other depths," and the
possibility of explorers becoming lost.  If such labyrinths do exist,
then it may explain one story which alleged that men dressed like
"ancient Egyptians" have been seen deep in unexplored tunnels near
Cairo, as well as possible confirmation of the story which appeared in
Nevada Aerial Research's 'LEADING EDGE' Publication to the effect that
the U.S.(?) Government secretly maintains a huge base within a cavern
of tremendous size (several miles in diameter) beneath the desert
sands of Egypt.  Could this tie in with the vague references to a
subterranean society(s) referred to by certain people 'in the know'
which is/are known as the 'Phoenix Empire' and/or the 'Gizeh People'?

    Articles in the WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS, July 25, 1973 and Aug. 15,
1973, tell of the discovery of an unexplored network of ancient,
artificial tunnels during construction of a parking lot in Crofton,
Maryland.  Subsequent construction covered the tunnel entrances before
the system could be completely investigated.

     Leon Davidson, in an early issue of 'FLYING SAUCERS' Magazine,
spoke of a large network of "underground tunnels in the California
desert, at Camp Irwin, near Barstow."  This may tie-in with an item
related by a Los Angeles municipal water director, as related in an
early issue of Richard Toronto's SHAVERTRON letter-zine, stating that
this water director knew of 5 large underground rivers which ran
beneath the Mojave desert, and that die-traces showed that at least
one of these emptied into the Pacific ocean through openings in the
continental slopes (One source stated that such a river exited in the
Gulf of California. Other sources speak of a "Kokoweef" river-system
which is alleged to lie below Kokoweef peak just east of FORT Irwin,
which looked--according to it's alleged discoverer, a Mr. Earl Dorr,
and a few "Indians" who also claimed to have been in it--like a "Grand
Canyon" underground.  It allegedly consists of a river chasm generally
500 ft. wide and over a thousand feet high-deep, sided by steep
tiered-shelved underground cliffs, huge stalactites and cataracts.
Also, the alluvial sands on the 'beaches' along the river, which
allegedly hold a large percentage of gold dust, are said to be several
feet deep.  The entrance to this cavern was allegedly dynamited shut
by Mr. Dorr to protect anyone else from getting to "his" gold.  There
is in fact evidence that Dorr did dynamite shut the lower level of
'Kin Sabe' cave in Kokoweef Peak, and there are present-day attempts
to break through into this underground system.  The water of the river
allegedly rose and fell with the tides, suggesting that a very large
body of water might exist upstream, that is if Dorr's account as well
as the accounts ofthe Indians were not fabricated).  The municipal
water director, according to the SHAVERTRON article, spoke with a man
who claimed that he was hired several years ago by the government to
look for water sources for Ft. Irwin.  He alleged to have explored an
old mine in the area and found that deep down, the shaft intersected
with an ancient earth fault or chasm-like cave which continued
horizontally for a considerable distance.  This government employee
followed the chasm and allegedly emerged onto the bank of a huge
underground river-cave over a quarter of a mile wide!  The tremendous
water flow--possibly originating from the waters that apparently
disappear beneath the Great Basin, the Nevada and Mojave deserts?--
could have 'fed' the water needs of all of Southern California.

     Paul Doerr (not to be confused with Mr. DORR referred to above),
in issue number 6 of his Newsletter 'UNKNOWN', related the tradition
concerning a race of human giants which, according to stories in the
Carolinas islands and especially Papua, allegedly went underground in
ancient times.  Once inhabitants of a lost island-continent called
"Chamat," they will, according to legend, one day emerge.  This legend
is wide-spread throughout Malaysia, which incidentally contains the
largest "officially recognized" cavern chamber, the "Sarowak Chamber"
on the island of Borneo in the Malaysian islands.  It is said to be
230 ft. wide by 980 ft. long and nowhere less than 270 ft. high, large
enough to easily hold within itself the two previous contenders for
the world's largest OFFICIAL chamber - Carlsbad's "Big Room" in New
Mexico and the "Salle de la Verna" in the Pierre Saint-Martin caverns
in France.  Yankee stadium could fit in one end of the Sarowak chamber
with room to spare!  The same issue of 'UNKNOWN' also reports on the
discovery of massive caverns in Toulumne Co., California, by three
Oakland miners.  The caverns were so extensive that a man would have
to "take grub for a week, and plan to explore for a month."

     The 'BOOK OF DYAN', which has been translated from ancient
manuscripts, tells of intellectually sophisticated humans from an
ancient earth-born society who abandoned the surface of the earth,
"depriving the impure human race of their knowledge," and leaving in
flying craft to rejoin their land "of iron and metal."

     'FAR OUT' Magazine's April, 1982 issue carried an article titled,
'BOTTOMLESS PIT FOUND ON THE OCEANS FLOOR'.  The article tells of a
huge man-made opening in the ocean floor between Panama and the
Galapagos Islands, which scientists say receives a constant flow of
ocean water which is being sucked through the hole and into the crust
beneath the ocean floor.

     Raymond A. Fowler, in his book 'THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR' (Prentice-
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.  1979) gives an extensive
description of an abduction experience of one woman who was taken by
the "Gray-type" aliens and later returned to her house.  These
creatures, according to Fowler and Andreasson, had the ability to
travel between stars but her account seems to suggest that their
ORIGINAL point of origin is within a cavernous subterranean realm.
For instance, here are some quotes given by Betty Andreasson
concerning her abduction: "(The aliens had) Large, wraparound... eyes
(which) stood in stark contrast to less prominent facial features:
holes for noses and ears, and fixed, scarlike mouths.  They wore shiny
dark blue, form-fitting uniforms... Their three-digit (reptilian?)
hands were GLOVED." The creatures seemed claylike, "...They're scary,"
Betty said, "I don't see any hair... (their heads were like) an
upside-down pear... I didn't even see a nose."  She described an "eye
slit" and said that the creatures took her from her house and into
some type of craft.  After a while the craft apparently connected to
some type of dock somewhere on or below the earth, beyond which was a
tunnel.  She was put into an enclosed chair-like transparent container
which filled with some kind of fluid, and was then taken through a
"...subway tunnel... it's like  track we're going on... walking,
gliding--or something."  She said that her willpower seemed mesmerized
by powerful influences beyond her ken.  "We would pass other tunnel
openings.  I could tell that there were other tunnels there... passed
out of the tunnel into a place where the atmosphere was a vibrating
red color... like infrared light... there are buildings--square
buildings with openings... In the red part... there wasn't any
vegetable life... we are coming to where there are some beings!  And
they've skinny arms and legs and kind of a full body.  And their eyes
can move every which way, and they can climb just like monkeys.  They
climb up quickly and swiftly and down and around and in and out of
windows.  They are all over the place!"  Betty and the two alien
creatures that abducted her approached a circular membrane and passed
through it without resistance into a place with a greenish atmosphere.
She looked down upon strange plants, a mist-enshrouded sea, and a
distant complex of buildings.  The sheer vastness of the alien realm
overwhelmed her senses.  The place reminded her of "some legendary
underground kingdom."  She continued, "There's a lot of different
stuff I'm seeing... plants are different.  It's like, uh--long stems
that come out in loops and the different colors.  But they are green!
Other similar elevated tracks (like the one she was on) criss-crossed
the area."  They stopped to let something go by.  Betty just watched,
dumbfounded.  Later she found nothing in her vocabulary to describe
it... "I don't know what it is!  It is something like--I can't ever
explain it... I'm seeing a pyramid--it has one big flat side and the
others indent, sort of.  We are going over it, high in the 'sky'...
There were (high buildings) like, you know, a lot of science fiction.
Big cities with all these different bridges all around... I don't
remember seeing any activity.  It was too far away.  That was way over
to the side there, way over to the side.  The pyramid was closer than
that... When we reached thedestination, we went through the black
tunnel (following which she was taken through some type of occult
ritual in which she had a vision of a 'Phoenix' bird which was
consumed in fire and then emerged from the ashes in the form of a worm
which began to grow slowly into the 'bird' shape.  Mr. Fowler
suggested that this may have been a feigned 'religious experience'
orchestrated by the aliens in order to play on her emotions and gain
Betty's assistance)... "They seemed long," speaking of the tunnel
which she was taken through.  After the occult "initiation" or ritual
she was taken back the way she came, "It felt like pressure or
something on my head," speaking of the strange force which glued her
to the escalator-walk contrivance, "My head was hurting and heavy from
it, whatever it was... I COULD HAVE BEEN INSIDE THE EARTH... SOMEHOW I
BELIEVE WE WERE IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH." She retraced with the two
alien kidnappers the way back through the greenish cavern where the
mist-covered sea was located, "the sea was off to the side, and there
was mist, and then it had that narrow land and it did finally go onto
some kind of surface and was going up... It (the underground sea)
seemed very dark, but it was green--very, very dark.  It was choppy.
After it had cleared, it looked smooth, sort of smooth glass... I'm
going back on that thing (the track), and, ah, I'm stopping..."  The
two creatures retraced their original path via the 'black' track they
had traveled on earlier.  Betty began speculating out loud concerning
the heaviness that she felt in her legs.  It seemed as if the force
that kept Betty glued to a position just above the track was also
responsible for causing her severe physical discomfort.  "I think
maybe why my feet are like that--I must be, uh, glued to that thing,
because there are no railings and there's nothing holding me in.  And
I'm just gliding along that thing, and it's not very wide... And that
green and blue-colored atmosphere, it's just beautiful (the
underground land was very beautiful in some parts, but the alien
creatures themselves which had apparently taken control of these areas
at some time in the past were described by Betty as being frightening-
looking)... The green atmosphere was the sky, and then it was also
blue... and green and blue were mixed.  It was bright, bright green--
emerald green--and then it was like blue... I don't remember any
shadows."  She also claimed to have seen some crystalline structures,
as well as the pyramid structure once again, "there's that pyramid
again.  Ah, it has the white on the edges.  And that (sculptured) head
and those bridges, or something or other.  I don't know.  There was--
uh, there was water that was very choppy when I was going, like a big
sea.  There was land, but it was, if you call it a horizon, it was
like there was mist all around... I saw the color of the--fish, bird
fish... Off to the side there is some kind of--something like a city
or something.  I don'tknow what it is.  It is too different than I've
ever seen before.  I just can't explain it... And we are still going
through that red atmosphere.  We're coming to the circle again.  And
it's like a mirror.  We're going through something like a mirror."  In
an instant, they were plunged into darkness.  Once again, Betty glided
along the dark rock-hewn tunnel, "And we are going along this dark
tunnel and, uh, we're just gliding along.  And just keep going and
going and going, it seems like.  We are in there a long time, it feels
like... They (the aliens) have powers.  THEY CAN MAKE YOU THINK ONE
THING AND YET MEAN ANOTHER.  I DON'T LIKE THEM CONTROLLING MY WORDS!"
Betty said during one "regressive hypnosis" session DURING WHICH time
an alien force began taking control of her mind and spoke through her
in a mechanical voice. During this session she said: "They have
powers.  They can control the wind, the water and even lightning...
They are (using me), and I don't know how they're doing it... They
travel freely. They travel freely throughout the whole earth."  When
she was asked by one therapist if they traveled INSIDE the earth,
Betty replied, "Since the beginning of time... some come from realms
where you cannot see their hiding place.  Some come from the very
earth... there is a place on this very earth that you don't know of."
In 'THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR, PHASE II' (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ., 1982., 278 pp. ch. 6-8) Mr. Fowler reveals even more connections
between Betty Andreasson's abduction by the "Gray" manipulators and a
subterranean cavern region. Apparently, as in the case of many
abductees, she was being manipulated by the creatures since a young
age.  One encounter took place at the age of 12 with a small hominoid
creature which emerged from a hole in a mountain near Westminster,
England. During another abduction experience later in her life she was
allegedly taken to huge caverns in which she saw a crystal "museum" or
computer containing records of past events, etc., as well as
undergroundmountains, valleys and enormous "icicles".

     Janice Goad, in an article titled 'CAVE LEGENDS OF THE CENTRAL
APPALACHIANS' (which appeared in the TECH TROGLODYTE, a National
Speleological Society affiliate, Vol. 12, No. 2 issue), revealed
several accounts of strange caves and unusual stories surrounding
them.  Among these accounts are those concerning "Devil's Slide Cave,"
six miles southwest of Tazewell, VA., and "Stoven's Cave" in Kentucky.
From both these caves strange, unusual sounds have been heard to
emerge.

     Walley George, in his article, 'PILGRIMAGE TO THE DEVIL' (FATE
Magazine., Aug. 1957., pp. 38-52) tells of a cave in a mountain 5
miles south of Ojinago, Mexico, which is believed to be the home of
"devils".  According to the account, many "witches" who have fallen
under the control of these creatures make regular pilgrimages to the
site.

     Virgil T. Godwin, in his book 'BIZARRE SHAVER' (Published by the
author., Salem, OR  1982) tells of Mr. Godwin's contacts with a
subterranean race, his experience with "UFO's", etc.  The author, of
gypsy background, allegedly had connections with UFO occupants,
Sasquatch, etc., since he was a child, and has allegedly taken 1000's
of photographs of their aerial craft, and has appeared on talk shows
and has claimed continuous contact with the UFO occupants.  The
occupants are said to be a race of about 8 foot tall humans who live
in tunnels and underground cities centered below Lincoln County,
Oregon., with at least one (probably more) connected subterranean
colonies beneath other parts of the Western Hemisphere, one of these
being within certain caves in or near a canyon in the central region
of Baja, California.  They claim to be technically advanced, and warn
of their ability to help defend North America in the event it is
invaded by a foreign government (and/or by other-planetary entities
also?).  This underground race allegedly has ties and backgrounds that
are connected to old Amerindian civilizations. They are able to speak
English, but their dialectis that of 'American Indian'.

     Vaughn M. Greene, in a letter which appeared in issue No. 14 of
Richard Toronto's SHAVERTRON letter-zine, spoke of a possible
'entrance' to cavern systems near the bottom of the elevator landing
in the Hoover dam near Las Vegas, which holds back Lake Mead.  Early
construction workers allegedly broke into (and probably re-sealed)
large caverns while blasting out the cliffs near the base of the dam.
In the lower elevator landing, according to Mr. Greene, there was a
"wild tile inlay on the floor, with signs of the zodiac and all sorts
of stuff suggesting an entrance."  He suggests a possible connection
between this and the caverns which the workers broke into.  Could this
tie-in with accounts given by others that an underground base exists
beneath Page, Arizona connecting the S-4 underground base in Nevada
and the Dulce underground base in New Mexico via tube-line? (the Glen
Canyon - Lake Powell Hydroelectric dam in Page 'might' provide a power
source for such an underground installation)  This is however only
supposition, however Navaho dam is alleged to supply some power to the
upper human-occupied levels of the Dulce Base, which may suggest that
similar bases are at least partially powered by hydroelectric dams.

     An early issue of the 'Shaver Mystery Magazine' gave an account
of two boys who uncovered a 'thermal bore' in a cave near Pittsburgh,
PA.  Their dog ran into the tunnel, a few minutes following which they
'heard' a deep, low vibrating sound whereupon the dog in absolute
terror darted up from the tunnel, scratched it way past the boys and
was later found shivering at home.  The cave was subsequently covered
up by a road crew.

     Howard F. Griffin, in a letter which appeared in the 'SHAVER
MYSTERY MAGAZINE', Vol. 1., No. 2., 1947, p. 35., told of vast caverns
within the interior of Pike's Peak in Colorado, as evidenced by
occasional sounds of subterranean 'rock-falls' which have been heard
to emanate from the bowels of the mountain. Other sources have
confirmed his phenomena also.

     Paxson C. Hayes, in writings of his which appeared in early
issues of BSRF's (Borderland Sciences Research Foundation's)
publication 'ROUND ROBIN,' referred to the discovery which he claimed
to have made of the mummified remains of a race of 7-ft. tall humans
who lived in huge caverns 9,000 feet below the surface of North
America.

     The Vol. 2, No. 1 issue of THE HOLLOW HASSLE Newsletter (formerly
published by Tal and Mary LeVesque), told of the discovery of a
mysterious stone staircase leading to a network of underground caverns
beneath the Caribbean island of Bonaire.

     Charles Hillinger, in his article, 'AN UNDERGROUND CATHEDRAL'
(Los Angeles Times., Mar. 2., 1975) describes a mysterious maze of
underground tunnels and rooms discovered beneath the surface of
Eureka, Nevada.

     Dana Howard, in her book, 'VESTA, THE EARTHBORN VENUSIAN' (Essene
Press., Corpus Christi,  TX.  1950), includes a chapter which tells of
a remnant of an ancient civilization still in existence underground,
within one of the mountain ranges adjacent to the Imperial Valley area
of California.

     The I.N.F.O. JOURNAL (Published by the Inter-National Fortean
Organization., Arlington, VA), Vol. 2., No. 2, p.7., relates "Prof.
Hapgood's" discovery of a stone staircase leading down into the earth
at Acambaro in central Mexico, now filled with hard-packed volcanic
material.  The conclusions are that the stairway is very ancient and
must lead somewhere!  The site is located on the "Mizquiz" property.

     John A. Keel, on p. 145 of his book 'THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES'
(Signet Books., N.Y., 1975.), states: "An engineer Rex Ball swears he
came upon a mysterious underground installation in Georgia in 1940,
manned by small Oriental-looking men in coveralls and a few American
military officers.  When he was caught in the tunnels, one of the
officers issued the curt command, 'Make him look like a nut!'  He woke
up in a field, uncertain whether his experience had been real or a
dream.  That seems to be the battle cry of he phenomena.  'Make him
look like a nut!'"  And on p. 192 of the same book: "...A man on Long
Island (informed Keel that he) was frantically making preparations for
the big evacuation.  He even traveled to a secret underground flying
saucer base, in a black Cadillac with a dashboard festooned with
flashing colored lights, where he participated in a 'dry run.'  Other
normal human beings were present, he said, and manned various kinds of
equipment to communicate with the rescue spaceships somewhere
overhead. 'Funny thing, John,' he mused, 'all the equipment was
manufactured by Western Electric, Hallicrafters, and other U.S.
companies.'"

     David Klein, in an article titled 'AMATEUR EXPLORER DISCOVERS
VAST CAVERN SYSTEM CONTAINING UNDERGROUND RIVER OF GOLD' (NATIONAL
ENQUIRER., Feb. 4., 1973 pp. 16-17), related the discovery of a
strange cavern system located some 300 miles northwest of Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.  Within the cavern-system there were
allegedly large amounts of gold, huge unidentifiable human or
Sasquatch-like footprints, white-albino frogs and perfectly round
stones and underground rivers.  These findings, according to the
article, were immediately suppressed by the Canadian government soon
after they were discovered.

     Tal LeVesque, in an article titled 'UNDERGROUND UFO BASE
SUSPECTED BY OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON', which appeared in the Vol. 2.,
No. 2., issue of THE HOLLOW HASSLE, described a suspected UFO Base
which is believed by some to lie under the Yakima Indian Reservation
southeast of Tacoma, Washington.

     Abraham Mansfield of 'The Lemurian Foundation - Mt. Shasta'
located in Redding, California, published a book in 1970 called 'THE
GOLDEN GODDESS OF THE LEMURIANS.'  The book is based on the author's
alleged contacts with native tribesmen in the area who revealed to him
the secret of the ancient 'Lemurian' treasure caves in the area,
allegedly containing gold and treasure from the ancient lost
civilization.  Chapter One of the volume gives the account of a men
who was allegedly led into the bowels of Mt. Shasta and into a
subterranean city and gardens producing gigantic vegetables, a mile or
so under the surface of the mountain.  This seems to confirm what has
been written by others concerning an apparent ante-deluvian city, long
since re-established and occupied by a "tall, blond race" of humans
who are able to travel to other planetary bodies via
crystalectromagnetic, mercury, ion and tachyon propelled craft. Their
central r capital city is allegedly called "Telos" and lies about a
mile under Mt. Shasta, and is said to contain vast underground
hydroponic gardens.

      The 'MILWAUKEE JOURNAL', Feb. 18, 1983., printed an article
titled, 'MANY CAVE DWELLINGS IN CHINA'.  The article referred to 4
million Chinese people who are said to live in cavern dwellings,
according to THE PEOPLE'S DAILY, a Chinese Newspaper. There are
hundreds of miles of inhabited, artificially constructed "national
defense" tunnels and chambers beneath Peking alone.

     Charles A. Marcoux published in 1981 a book called 'THE HIDDEN
CITY OF CHIHUATLAN'.  It described an account of a sealed cave in a
certain canyon near old Sonora, Mexico, which is said to lead to the
ancient Aztec underworld, or 'The Hidden City of Chihuatlan.'  Marcoux
also referred to an entrance to a tunnel in the Franklin Mts. near El
Paso, Texas., and an unexplored cave with large stone steps leading
deep into the earth near El Moro National Monument northeast of Pie
Town, New Mexico.  In connection with the possible Aztec "underworld",
one source some years ago wrote a manuscript in which he hypothesized
that the legendary "Seven Caves" of Aztec tradition might lie beneath
mountains adjacent to the "Salton Sea" of southern California. Certain
persons have allegedly heard subterranean "rock slides" within
mountain in this area.

     In relation to Abraham Mansfield's account mentioned earlier,
another man has written a book titled 'LEMURIA - FACT OR FICTION?'
The author, Robert Maxwell, claims to have been taken into the inner
colony of Mt. Shasta and shown by one of it's inhabitants the city and
ancient domain which was once inhabited by a lost race.

     Clair Millet, in his article 'LEGEND OF THE TUARTUMS - OF THE
VALLEY OF THE SUN' (2-part article appearing in the Spring and Summer
1981 issues of the 'New Atlantean Journal'), tells of the legend of a
race of 'little people' or 'Tuar-Tums,' who allegedly live below the
Salt River Valley, or Valley of the Sun, in Arizona.  Other soures,
incidentally, claim that 'little men' have been seen on top of ridges
in the nearby Superstition Mts. area, as if they were guarding
something (an entrance to an underground system perhaps?).

     The book 'THE LIFE OF THE CAVE', by Mohr and Paulson (1966),
gives evidence of extended animal migration underground beneath the
central-eastern U.S., indicated by troglodytes (animal) found in
widely separated caves which are identical with each other, indicating
past inter-connections which have become blocked. These caverns are
found from time to time during deep drilling operations.

     An article in the Feb. 19, 1976 issue of the 'HOUSTON POST',
titled 'MOUNTAIN CAVE HAS MYSTERY, MAYBE MONSTER', tells of the
discovery by scientists of a cave, "the oldest in the world... with
smooth vaulted roofs and level floors," (i.e. artificial) located
inside Mt. Autana in the Orinoco jungle, 400 miles south of Caracas,
Venezuela, and believed by locals to be the home of a giant human
being(s).

     The Summer, 1980 issue of the 'NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL', p. 48,
relates the account of a Mexican by the name of Jose Carmen Garcia,
who claims to have met a man who was taken into a subterranean city or
tunnels inhabited by tall, fair, humans. The beings claimed to be
'extraterrestrials' (could they have been native terrans with
interplanetary capabilities as many 'hidden' societies apparently
are?), and were encountered beneath an ancient volcano near Irapuato,
Mexico.  The man who encountered the beings was given a "formula" for
growing gigantic vegetables.  The man gave the formula to Mr. Garcia,
who in turn presented it to the Rosicrucian Order in California.  In
the article there appeared photographs of giant cabbages grown by
Garcia.  Could this account have something to do with the Mt. Shasta
scenario?  Note: Both places are "extinct" or dormant ancient
volcanoes; both involve "giant" vegetables grown by the inhabitants;
both subterranean groups are "tall"; both are "fair" (blond?); and
incidentally the Rosicrucians hav somehow been tied to or interested
in both places as we can see, even if this connection is peripheral
and does not involve actual contact with the inhabitants.

     The September 29. 1981, issue of the 'NEW YORK TIMES' (p. 3)
reported on Russian drilling experiments which have been conducted at
the Kola Peninsula and at Saatly in Azerbaijan, resulting in two
unexpected findings.  These included the discovery of traces of
biological activity of fossil microorganisms at 22,000 ft., and a
dramatic increase in temperature at 33,000 ft., instead of a dropping
temperature that was expected.

     A Mr. John Hall of Utah alleged that several years ago a farmer
near Alpine, Utah requested help from some locals to move a large
boulder in the midst of a field.  They were surprised upon moving it
to find an 'staircase' or tunnel that led deep underground.  They
followed this until they came face to face with a huge snake or
serpent that seemed to be 'guarding' the lower entrance, whereupon
they fled to the surface terrified and set the boulder back over the
opening.

     The 'NORWOOD REVIEW OF ENGLAND'., May 12, 1884 issue, summarizes
the surprising discovery of a warm country in the north by Arctic
explorers.  If warm land exists there, then conceivably lost
civilizations might as well.  Quoting from the article, "We do not
admit that there is ice up to the pole - once inside THE GREAT ICE
BARRIER, a new world breaks upon the explorer, the climate is mild
like that of England, and afterward, balmy as the Greek Isles."

     David Perkins, in a letter of his which appeared in the Vol. 1,
No. 1 issue of 'THE HOLLOW HASSLE', told of a strange "breathing well"
that drillers had broken into 17 miles east of Walsenberg, CO.  Other
strange occurrences had been found on the ranch or farm where the well
was located, including unexplained cattle mutilations.
Representatives from the Colorado School of Mines came out to
investigate the well, which seemed to "breath" in and out with the
rising and falling of the tides, and they exctedly suggested that a
tunnel lay below which may have connected with a similar tunnel which
the Colorado School of Mines had tracked from the Gulf of Mexico and
as far as Oklahoma.  In 'possible' connection to this, one source
alleged that an "alternative 002" type of underground "city"
maintained by a secret society, can be entered via a "lodge" in the
Uncompagre Mts., also in southwest Colorado.  Also, a large "Masonic
Park" exists in this same area (any connection?).

     W. B. Seabrook, in his book 'ADVENTURES IN ARABIA' (ch. 15)
refers to the secret caverns under the temple-shrine at Sheik-Adi on
Mt. Lalesh, near Baadri, Arabia.  It is believed to have a
subterranean river, this being confirmed by the author, which the
Yezidee devil worshippers of the area allege connects with the spring
of Zem Zem in Mecca, flowing beneath the entire desert country.

     Wayne D. Simpson, in a letter which appeared in the Vol. 1, No. 2
issue of 'THE SHAVER MYSTERY MAGAZINE' (pp. 28-29) tells of his own
personal knowledge of the "Spillman Manuscript," written by one C. J.
Spillman of Phoenix, Arizona.  In 1912 the author of the manuscript
and others allegedly discovered an entrance to a cave or tunnel
beneath some ancient surface ruins near San Simon, Bolivia.  The group
allegedly followed the passage to a great depth until emerging into an
enormous cavern in which they encountered several identical-looking
(cloned?) 8-foot tall human-appearing beings who approached them from
a distant "city". These beings alleged that they were connected with
other-planetary civilizations, although they lived in an underground
city which seemed to have been there for some time.  The present
whereabouts of the manuscript is unknown.

     The April 6, 1982 issue of 'WEEKLY WORLD NEWS' carried an article
titled, "SOVIET TESTS REVEAL THE 55-HOUR DAY!"  The article records
the strange discoveries of Russian speleologists-scientists who spend
71 days in one of the world's deepest known caverns, located in the
Abkhazia Mountains in the Soviet nion (i.e. or rather the former
Soviet Union).  After entering 8 miles into the cave, scientists
reported increased vitality, less fatigue, and a natural change from
normal 24-hour working-sleeping cycles to a 55-hour cycle.

     Martha G. Stark, in a letter to "inner earth" researchers, told
of an entrance to "Pelleur's Kingdom" near Carlsbad, New Mexico.  She
did not explain just where she came across this information.  Carlsbad
Caverns are located in the Guadellupe mountain range of southeastern
New Mexico and northwestern Texas. Aside from the unusual tunnel
containing the "smooth marble wall" mentioned earlier in this file,
which was allegedly found near the Guadellupe's, other strange
paraspeleological phenomena have been described in connection with
this area as well.  For instance in the 1800's, according to Toronto's
'SHAVERTRON' newsletter, some trappers claimed to have followed a
cavern in the Guadellupe's deep underground where they were able to
witness from a hidden position a procession of hooded dark-robed
figures performing some type of strange ceremony.  It was not
established whether the 'beings' were sauroid or human.  In the Spring
of 1992 the television program 'CODE-3' covered the remarkable rescue
of a woman--a speleologist who had broken her leg while helping to map
the system--from the Lechuguilla cavern-network adjacent to Carlsbad.
Ever since the entrance to Lechuguilla was found less than a dozen
years previous to the accident it quickly became "the" cave for
veteran speleologists and spelunkers in the United States, if not the
world, to focus their attention on.  In these few years it has
established itself as the deepest "officially recognized" cavern in
the United States at over 1,565 feet in depth and over 55 miles long
with no end in sight!  In addition to this, John Lear, Thomas C. and
other have identified "Carlsbad, New Mexico" as being the general
location of an "underground base" connecting the gigantic subterranean
network which converges below Dulce, New Mexico.

     Lt. Col. Wendelle C. Stevens, in his book, "UFO - CONTACT FROM
THE PLEIADES, A PRELIMINARY REPORT" (UFO Photo Archives., Tucson, AZ
1982., p. 79) reports on the alleged sixth face-to-face contact
between Eduard 'Billy' Meier and the 'Pleiadean' Semjase.  He was told
of strange people, unknown to us, who live in the interior of
mountains and cave's beneath the earth's surface.  They are of various
types, some with bluish skin, and others who often come to the surface
and blend with surface inhabitants, unknown to their true origin.

     Cecil Michael, in his book 'ROUND TRIP TO HELL IN A FLYING
SAUCER' (formerly published by Saucerian Press, later known as Gray
Barker Books and still later as the Gray Barker Archives -(304) 624-
6512), tells of a UFO encounter of a different sort. Aside from the
almost exclusive physical nature of encounters with human occupants,
and the often para-physical nature of contacts with the saurians, Mr.
Michael claims to have encountered the 'Infernals', entities that make
up the third classification of UFO occupants - exclusively
supernatural beings, or rather fallen light beings or angels.  He
tells how he was isited by strange "dead looking" men that
materialized in his shop one day, which offered to take him on a trip
in their "flying saucer".  He responded that he would never physically
go with them, at which point they made it known that the "physical"
aspect was not necessary.  Sometime later, he claimed, he was
'astrally' abducted by the entities, his spirit form being separated
from his physical and soul forms, and taken into a saucer-shaped
object apparently constructed from some type of etheric matter yet
which was empty and absent of any mechanical parts and in fact was
allegedly operated by the 'psychic energy' of the beings.  From here
he was allegedly taken to a realm of tormented souls deep, deep
beneath the earth where he saw the souls of discarnate men and women
being cast by the beings into an icy sea, after which the tormented
souls drifted away into oblivion.  Mr. Michael claimed that the
creatures looked humanoid yet were not at all human.

     Raymond A. Fowler, in 'THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR', pp. 202-203, gave
his own interpretation of the intentions of the non-human entities who
abducted Betty Andreasson to their underworld abode. In reference to a
supposed "religious experience" she had during which she thought she
observed a huge phoenix-like bird consumed by fire and then rise again
from it's own ashes, a theme which is tied in with ancient Egyptian
lore, Mr. Fowler stated: "...it seems to be the purpose of her travel
through the red and green spaces.  In reality, the... phenomena may be
a combination of advanced technology and theology.  A slightly more
sinister possibility suggests itself, of course.  When researching the
life-style of primitive peoples, modern-day anthropologists are
careful to respect the beliefs of local tribes, sometimes going so far
as to let themselves be 'initiated' into their secret societies.  It
did occur to the investigator that Quazgaa (the alien-gray commander
involved in orchestrating the abduction of Mrs. Andreasson) may have
paid lip service to Betty's religious convictions SIMPLY IN ORDER TO
ENSURE HER COMPLIANCE.  Again and again, Betty had been about to
RESIST the entities' requests, but invariably acquiesced when she was
assured (however obliquely) that her abductors were, indeed, on the
side of the angels (there are, however, two classifications of
'angels' - the fallen and the unfallen variety - Branton).  AND YET
MUCH OF WHAT THESE BEINGS MADE BETTY UNDERGO (particularly her
examination ordeal) HARDLY SEEMS IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
Indeed, the hypothesis makes a bit more sense of the baffling phoenix
episode.  Betty assured us that Quazgaa and his associates' sense of
time was far different from ours; and the phoenix was apparently a
meaningful symbol to members of the early Christian Church.  Supposing
that these entities went out of their way to stage-manage a religious
experience as a 'reward' for Betty, it's not inconceivable that they
might have picked a symbol that was obsolete by some 1,500 years!"

     In his book 'THE GOLD OF THE GODS', Erich von Danniken relates
some interesting thoughts concerning an ancient tunnel system that had
been discovered below the mountains and jungles of Ecuador which
allegedly consist of straight 'glazed' tunnels with intermittent 'air
shafts' that stretch for hundreds of miles.  Although he has come
under criticism from many researchers for his tendency to embellish
certain accounts, and twist archeological and historical facts in an
attempt to support his own pet theories, some of his research is
nevertheless interesting and reliable enough to include here.  On pp.
59-60 of this particular work, he stated: "...I can refute the
objection that the tunnel-builders must have 'betrayed' themselves by
the enormous quantities of debris excavated while making the tunnels.
As I credit them with an advanced technology, they were presumably
equipped with a THERMAL DRILL of the kind described in DER SPIEGAL for
3 April, 1972, which reported it as the latest discovery.  The
scientists of the U.S. Laboratory for Atomic Reseach at Los Alamos
spent a year and a half developing the thermal drill.  It has nothing
in common with ordinary drills. The tip of the drill is made of
wolfram and heated by a graphite heating element.  There is no longer
any waste material from the hole being drilled.  The thermal drill
melts the rock through which it bores and presses it against the
walls, where it cools down.  As DER SPIEGAL related, the first test-
model bored almost soundlessly through blocks of stone 12 ft. thick.
At Los Alamos they are now planning the construction of a thermal
drill that is powered by a mini atomic reactor and eats into the earth
like a mole, in the form of an armored vehicle.  This drill is
intended to pierce the earth's crust, which is about 25 miles thick
(in some places - Branton), and take samples of the molten magma that
lies underneath it..."

     An analysis of UFO occupant reports prepared for the Center for
UFO Studies (AN ANALYSIS OF THE FALL 1973 UFO/HUMANOID WAVE, by Dave
Webb.  Center for UFO Studies., Evanston, ILL  1976.  p. 52) states
that twenty-seven "dwarf" cases were reported to CUFOS in 1973.  One
such case allegedly involved another family's CE-III on October 16,
1973, at Lehi, Utah.  Using hypnosis, Dr. James Harder, consultant for
the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), elicited from one
of the witnesses the following description:  The beings were slightly
over four feet tall, very thin, with large slanted eyes.  Their arms
were long and their hands GLOVED and CLAWLIKE, with a diminutive
thumb. They were wearing what appeared to be glowing clothing with Sam
Brown-like belts!

     Although this particular 'File' is reserved for reports of
subsurface phenomena, we will not exclude these to planet earth alone.
There is much evidence that the underground regions of other planets,
or possibly even the moons of this and other planets, may play a part
in the "Grand Scenario".  Frank Edwards, in his 'STRANGE WORLD' (Lyle
Stuart Co., N.Y.  1964.  pp. 329-330) gives the following revelatios
under the heading, "THE MYSTERIOUS MOONS OF MARS":  "Now that man has
tools which will enable him to obtain detailed information by near
approaches to Mars, we may expect, within the next few years, to learn
whether Mars is inhabited by intelligent beings, and, if so, what they
look like and how they live.  Among the factors which have focused so
much of our time and talent on Mars are the two tiny satellites which
orbit the planet--where--prior to 1877--no satellites had ever been
seen before (In other words, about the time the canals of Mars were
mysteriously starting to "disappear", new satellites began appearing
on the scene -Branton).  The famous astronomers Herschel and Lasselle
had excellent telescopes at their disposal--so good that they used
them to DISCOVER THE MOONS OF URANUS.  Yet neither these men, nor
hundreds of other astronomers who observed the planets, were able to
see any satellites around Mars.  Then in one week in 1877, Asaph Hall
found that Mars had two satellites where none had been seen before.
Furthermore, he found that the satellites were tiny but
bright...brighter than the planet itself...as though they were made of
some material other than that of Mars.  It is also worth noting that
not only do these two Martian satellites sweep around the planet at a
very high speed but they travel in different directions...factors
which had led to the suspicion that they are artificial.  This is the
theory advanced by Soviet astronomer I. S. Schklovsky, who points out
that the Martian satellite known as Phobos exhibits a strange
acceleration in its orbit, an irregularity which would be expected if
the satellite were in reality a huge metal sphere that was hollow.
The same difference in speed, however, would be impossible for a
natural astronomical body.  Therefore, says Dr. Schklovsky, at least
one of the moons of Mars IS NOT A NATURAL OBJECT, but an artificial
satellite placed in orbit around the 'red' planet in 1877, or shortly
before that time.  When we stop to think of the discovery of the
artian moons in 1877--and of the mass of phenomena noted on our moon
between 1879 and 1889--the conviction develops that if we discover
life on Mars...we may also discover that we are merely returning a
visit."

     An article in the Dec. 1, 1968 issue of THE PEOPLE (British),
titled "Something Quare Down The Tunnel!", reported on a strange,
dark, 7 ft. tall creature which was briefly seen by workers during the
construction of London's New Victoria tube line.

     The MELBOURNE SUN (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), August 25,
1954 issue, carried an article titled "THE NEW SATELLITES", which
stated: "Two meteors (asteroids?) had become satellites of the earth
and WERE REVOLVING WITH IT 400 to 600 miles out in space, the latest
issue of the American Magazine 'AVIATION WEEK' said yesterday.  The
magazine said that the discovery of the satellites threw the air force
into confusion this summer.  Alarm over the sightings ended only after
they had been identified as natural rather than manmade."  Another
possibility may be that they were both 'engineered' natural objects
such as hollowed-out asteroids taken from the asteroid belt.  The
simultaneous arrival of two large asteroids, combined with the fact
that both took up a geo-synchronous (synchronized with the revolving
of the earth and positioned always over a particular geographical
location) orbit, would be an incredible coincidence indeed.

     In 'THE KATHA SARIT SAGARA (THE OCEAN OF STORY)', edited by
Bhatta Somadeva., New Delhi, India., 1968., this Ten Volume collection
of ancient East Indian lore gives a description of the 7-leveled
underworld of 'Patala', which is the traditional abode of the Nagas,
or the Serpent Race.  Vol. 6, pp. 108-112, gives a legend concerning
the journey of a King by the name of Bhunandana to this underworld
region.  Although most of the story is probably fiction, it is
nevertheless a bizarre reflection of the ideas which it's writer or
writers, early Hindu's, had concerning this underworld.  Take note
that some of the legend seems to parallel certain ideas concerning the
reptilian netherworld which have appeared in other accounts.  Whether
this legend has any direct connection with actual alleged scenarios
such as that taking place deep below Dulce, New Mexico, remains to be
seen. We will let the reader make their own determination.  The
legend, as it appeared in 'THE OCEAN OF STORY', states that: "There
are on this earth many openings leading into the lower regions; but
there is one great and famous one is Kasmira made by Maya... even now
the place is called by the two names Peak of Pradyumna and Hill of
Sarika... the king (Bhunandana) entered with... his pupils, and
marched along the road to Patala for five days and five nights.  And
on the sixth day they all crossed the Ganges of the lower regions."
The king told his followers, "This is the dwelling of the god Siva (as
the reader may recall, Siva or Shiva is an apparently supernatural
being that has been identified with the Serpent Race of the 'Nagas',
as related in Andrew Tomas' book 'ON THE SHORES OF ENDLESS WORLDS' and
elsewhere - Branton), who inhabits the lower regions in the form of
Hatakesvara, and whose praises are sung in the three worlds..."  Could
the 'three' worlds be the subterran, terran and exterran 'worlds'?  In
the legend the underworld of Patala gave off the impression of being
some kind of underworld paradise, yet the hero's of the story soon
learn that such 'beauty' is only superficial, and that inwardly things
were just the opposite.  One of the kings servants, becoming hungry,
eats a fruit from one of the subterranean trees and "...as soon as he
had eaten it, he became rigid and motionless."  At one point in the
journey the king encounters a being that appeared to him in the form
of a woman, and this being takes him to an underground garden and,
according to the legend, "...then she sat down with him on the brink
of a tank filled with wine, and with the blood and fat of corpses,
that hung from trees on its banks, and she offered the king a goblet,
full of the fat and wine, to drink, but he would not accept the
loathsome compound.  And she kept saying earnestly to the king: 'You
will not prosper if you reject my beverage.'  But he answered: 'I
certainly will not drink that undrinkable compound, whatever may
happen.'"  In apparent response to his refusal, instead of declaring
that he had passed some test, 'she' then pours out the grotesque
compound over his head and departs, and shortly afterwards he was
expelled from Patala, the legendary home of the Nagas or the Serpent
Race (this particular legend did not refer to the Naga's as the
inhabitants of Patala, as most Hindu legends do, that is of course
unless the 'woman' was actually a Naga in disguise.  Or could 'she'
have been a sorceress who lived in that dark underworld realm?  This
is assuming of course that there is some seed of truth behind this
tale).  Whether fantasy or reality, the 'king' should be commended for
resisting the bloody 'drink', and may have been fortunate that he
himself did not end up as 'food' for these false 'gods' of the
underworld.  This is, again, assuming that there is a fire of truth
behind the 'smoke' of such tales.

     Manly P. Hall, who has written numerous books on Freemasonry and
other occult themes, in his volume 'MAN, THE GRAND SYMBOL OF THE
MYSTERIES' (Manly P. Hall Pub. Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1932, p. 160)
states: "The most secret rituals of ancient initiation were performed
in subterranean crypts, which were called 'caverns of the Mysteries.'
In the Gothic rites, the final ceremony in which the new initiate was
invested with the insignia of his order took place in a high, vaulted,
cavernous chamber in the presence of the luminous statue of Balder (a
Nordic 'deity')... Here also are the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and the
cave-dwelling Rishis of India--the seven original beings who in the
mythology of Central America were the cave-born progenitors of the
(Central American) races." (Note: The cave-dwelling Rishis are said to
live largely in Ellora, India where there are alleged to be tunnel
entrances to an underground system which connects with Elephanta and
the Ajunta Caverns - Branton)

     One source stated some years ago that the Texas Instruments plant
near Dallas, Texas, had discovered a system of ancient tunnels and
caverns deep below the T. I. Complex there (discovered via
experimental electronic earth-sounding probes? -merely a suggestion),
and have secretly been investigating these tunnels for some time.
This source revealed the name and address of one woman T.I. worker who
allegedly told this source about the underground system.  A letter was
sent to this woman asking if she would confirm or deny the story, but
no response has been forthcoming.  These sources alleged that 'small'
hominoid beings were discovered in the tunnels, some of which were
being held in captivity in 'cage-like' enclosures for research
purposes (whether 'they' were humanoid or sauroid was not mentioned,
other than that they tended towards a greenish-like skin color).
Certain 'inner earth' researchers were allegedly contacted by the
company and allowed entrance into these tunnels for the purpose of
getting their opinion and views on who or what these beings were.  Due
to the lack of solid confirming evidence as yet, the reader should
take these reports with a grain of salt for now.

     Archaeologists have in recent years broken through into vast and
ancient labyrinthine underground cities in Turkey.  Although several
'cities' have been found, the largest seems to lie beneath Derenkuyu.
These underground villages are quite extensive, with many levels, and
in some places contain tunnels only 3 or 4 ft. in diameter (apparently
constructed this way for defense purpose) that lead to other chambers
or other levels. According to tradition, many of these cities were
utilized by early Christians escaping persecution.  It is not known
however whether the Christians built the cities or whether the
underground villages are of more ancient origin.  According to Kurt
Braun, in his article 'Underground Civilization Attacks German
Archaeologists', in 'BEYOND REALITY' (Dec. 1968); some men who were
exploring the lower depths of the Derenkuyu labyrinth were at one
point 'attacked' by tall, albino-like humans.  Since most of the
underground 'cities' have not been fully explored it is uncertain just
how extensive they are or if they connect lower down.

     John A. Keel, in his book, 'THE EIGHTH TOWER' (Saturday Review
Press., N.Y., 1975), pp. 53-54,129, stated:  "...A woman in Gaffney,
South Carolina, was plagued by eerie hums and strange mechanical
sounds in the mid-1960s.  She complained to the local police that
someone was digging tunnels under her house, but a thorough
investigation yielded nothing... During my own investigations into the
mountains of northern New Jersey, I wandered uncomfortably through old
caves half-filled with water after local residents had told me of
hearing sounds of pulsing machines... To the UFO cultists these sounds
are supposed to be coming from the marvelous space ships of mysterious
extraterrestrial travelers.  Another group (and it is a large group)
sees these as evidence of the existence of 'Deros'--detrimental
robots--who live in the bowels of the earth and are up to no good...
In May 1969 Jose Antonio, a Brazilian soldier, underwent (an)
experience when he was kidnapped by a group of tiny humanoids, and
transported to a cavernlike room of stone. There his captors offered
him a drink from a stone cube with a pyramidal cavity in the center.
It was a dark green liquid, with a bitter taste.  But he said he felt
better after drinking it."

     In his book 'ON THE SHORES OF ENDLESS WORLDS' (Souvenir Press),
Andrew Tomas, in his chapter "Labyrinths and Serpents", states:
"...According to legend, King Minos of Crete ordered his architect
Daedalus to construct the labyrinth, a maze of passages so ingeniously
devised that even the builder himself could not find his way without a
plan.  In the center lived the Minotaur, half bull, half human, to
whom the Greeks sent seven youths and seven maidens as a tribute every
nine years.  The Minotaur was slain by Theseus who was able to find
his way out of the labyrinth thanks to a ball of thread given to him
by Ariadne. This myth has been interpreted as an historical record of
the construction of the palace of Minos in Knossos which contains
innumerable galleries and rooms.  On the other hand, this myth may
have an entirely different interpretation, similar to a cryptogram,
which conceals the existence of a secret repository of underground
chambers and passages..."  Although this might seem to be just a
"legend", there are alleged accounts of actual encounters with
paraphysical (part supernatural, part physical) "demonic" creatures
such as the satyres, centuars, and Minotaurs, etc. which have been
described in Greek mythology.  Such encounters often involve
paraphysical "poltergeist-like" phenomena and manipulation of mind and
matter.  According to some sources, a race of beings possessing a
combination of humanoid, angelic and animal-like characteristics pre-
dated Adamic civilization and were involved in the original rebellion
and conspiracy against the Creator.  The creatures mentioned in the
9th chapter of the book of Revelation "may" be this type of demonic or
fallen entity.  These were apparently distinct from the purely
spiritual angelic and fallen angelic beings. Whether the following
account describes an encounter with such a fallen race(s) remains to
be seen.  The letter we quote here appeared in the Winter, 1962 issue
of THE HIDDEN WORLD, one of several publications which grew out of the
"Shaver Mystery" controversy of the late 1940's:

     "Mr. Richard Shaver:  Hoping this letter finds you in the best of
health.  My name is Frank J. Mezta.  I live in the County of Imperial
Valley, City of Calexico, California.

     "Through accident I happened to stumble into your book HIDDEN
WORLD issue No. A-1 and just recently A-2.  I sometimes wonder if it
was luck or deliberate action on the part of a tero. All my life, I
have been looking and asking for certain, unsolved and unanswered
questions regarding civilization, our ancestors and the beginning of
time.  I believe your book gave me the best answers.  Let me tell you
a few of my expeditions.

     "Two years ago, we went treasure hunting in the interior of
Mexico, which turned out to be a flop.  But in that excursion some
strange things happened to us, which at the time we wrote off as
superstition.  We went to this place where we were supposed to enter;
but suddenly a fright with chills came over me, something I had never
felt before.  Something like a sixth sense, like if I knew something
was going to happen to me.  I didn't go in and neither did anybody
else.  Next day we approached the cave again, only this time I wasn't
afraid and I let the group inside.  This cave was tremendous in size,
and leading passages everywhere.  Some of these passages or chambers,
sometimes being 30 ft. high and 100 ft. long (contained) connecting
tunnels.  We finally gave up, but in retrieving we found two leading
passages instead of the one we had entered. This startled us, and we
set to investigate the second tunnel. It just kept winding and going
down so we finally gave up and got out of there.

     "When we got back to the village we struck a conversation with
two Mexican Indians, and they told us that whatever we did, not to go
into the enchanted caves.  We got curious and asked them where these
so called enchanted caves were.  They gave us directions and that was
exactly where we had entered a few days ago.  We asked them what
happened in these caves.  They told us that people that went in there,
never came out, that while in there, the entrances and tunnels would
change, which happened to us, and we didn't know about this till after
we had been in there.  Then they told us the strangest thing, which at
the time we said these people are superstitious, they said that they
went with an expedition with 20 or 30 men hired by an American man to
look into this cave.  This happened about 10 or 15 years ago they
said.  Four or five of the men had revolvers, they were well equipped
with lights and tools.  While they were working there all of a sudden
in the far end there appeared a half man and bull head like a bull
upright.  This description fits the one you have on your front cover
on issue A-1.  And next to him was a naked midget or little boy.  They
pulled out their revolvers but they wouldn't fire, and their lights
went out.  There was confusion, and several men were killed in the
scramble and nobody returned after that - Frank J. Mezta, 939 Genge,
Calexico, Calif."

     In recent years, much has been written about the so-called
"National Defense" underground facilities, some of which have become
public knowledge due to the apparent "fall" of Communism in the former
Soviet Union.  It is alleged that these facilities do serve or have
served as National Defense shelters, yet according to some they "flow
in" via tube-shuttles to other subterranean systems which are involved
in the secret government "Alternative 002" scenario, underground bio-
genetic laboratories, and even subterranean systems involving "alien"
scenarios as well.  Mt. Weather, near Bluemont, VA., is the site of an
actual "underground city" constructed and maintained by the U.S.
Government for the purpose of being utilized "by the President" and
top governmental officials as a command center in the event of a
nuclear war or a similar emergency.  It is uncertain whether this
installation was entirely excavated by the U.S. government or whether
they utilized and added-on to already-existing natural subterranean
cavities, but most reports state that the "installation" is enormous.
It was virtually unknown to the media until a plane crashed near Mt.
Weather in northern Virginia, forcing the government to acknowledge
the existence of the underground complex.  It allegedly consists of
miles upon miles of underground tunnels which connect scores of
chambers, offices, recreation centers, cafeterias, etc., all
reportedly accessible via a system of 'electric cars'.  It is
apparently one of the major 'bolt holes' (a code-name for a series of
about a hundred, possibly more, such government installations located
in America and overseas) which is being utilized by the U.S.
government.  Witnesses have stated that helicopters have at times been
seen landing in a secret port in the side of Mt. Weather. These craft
then enter the mountain via enormous metal 'doors' in the side of the
mountain.  In reference to Mt. Weather, the editor of 'THE MISSING
LINK', published by UFOCC (UFO Contact Center International) of
Federal Way, Washington, stated:

     "A...paper on caves, tunnels, etc. states that there is a tube
shuttle from the White House to a super-secret underground complex in
case of nuclear attack, under Mt. Weather, Virginia!"

     Incidentally, a man in Florida (who will remain anonymous for
obvious reasons) who claimed to have been "abducted" by alien
entities, also alleged that he had a friend who was a high-level
officer in the government, with a very high security clearance. He
stated that his friend was involved in interviewing military personnel
who had "UFO-type" encounters, and other forms of debriefing and, we
can assume, other methods utilized to maintain the cover-up.  This
government officer had allegedly been to Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base near Dayton, Ohio and had personally seen some of the "alien
cadavers" which were recovered from disks which had crashed.  He was
also, he claimed, allowed entrance into a top-secret system of
underground tunnels beneath Washington D.C., and had visited a highly
classified underground installation which apparently was the 'real' or
'inner' Central Intelligence Agency, and that the one at Langley was
merely the 'outer' level of the CIA.  This 'installation', he said,
was connected to the White House via a TUBE SHUTTLE!  Could this
Florida man's friend have been referring to Mt. Weather, or a similar
installation?  Or was he referring to the alleged CIA-NSA-MIB
installation deep below Washington D.C. itself, the so-called 'NOD'
installation?

     In addition to this, there are other sources who claim that the
CIA installation at Langley descends at least seven levels, and that
some of the (recovered?) disks are housed in these lower levels.

     A researcher by the name of Jon Singer, stated the following in
an article of his which appeared in 'THE MISSING LINK' (mentioned
earlier): "Our nation's capital has it's share of Fortean mysteries.
There is supposed to be a tunnel complex under the Octagon House at
1741 New York Avenue, NW.  Dr. John Thornton, the architect who
designed the Capitol Building, built some (but not all) of the
tunnels.  The course of at least two of the tunnels is known.  One is
supposed to go to the White House and the other supposedly leads to
the Potomac.  The tunnels are supposedly blocked up.  Jim Brandon, on
p. 58 of (his book) 'WEIRD AMERICA' (1978.  E.P. Dutton & Co., N.Y.),
added that the tunnels built by Dr. Thornton were only part of a much
older and larger tunnel network constructed by colonists from
Atlantis. Unfortunately his sources were two unidentified psychics, so
this must be a fascinating rumor."  This would depend upon whether
these "revelations" were received by these psychics via "occult"
means, in which case they should be viewed with great suspicion, or
whether they based their claims on actual physical accounts.  However,
Richard Toronto, editor of SHAVERTRON, claimed that some years ago as
a result of a printed request for information on subterranean
anomalies, a scientist contacted him offering a 10-page report on a
system of tunnels he had personally investigated beneath Washington
D.C.  He stated that the tunnels were built by a very ancient race,
and that the walls consisted of a diamond-hard, glassy or glaze-like
substance.  As far as we know, Mr. Toronto never did actually get his
hands on the report.

     Another incident (or rather a few incidents which should be of
interest to us) was related in Eric Norman's book 'THE UNDERPEOPLE'
(1969.,  Award Books.,  N.Y.).  First of all, Norman asks the
question: "Who lives in the inner earth?"

     "'...The Masters live there, a friendly group who watch over the
outer world.'

     "...Still others tremble at the question.  'The DERO dwells
within!' they say.  A squat, wiry tribe of lustful demons, the DERO
plagues mankind and delights in tormenting those who live on the
surface.

     "'They (the Under-People) are vegetarians,' claims some
researchers.

     "'They are cannibals!' swear others.  'Humans are kidnapped and
dragged into their dark caverns for pagan feasts.'

     "'They are good!'

     "'They are evil...'

     "'...They are both good and evil.  Different races live inside
the earth!'

     "'...They are more advanced.  They are sexless.  They reproduce
by test tube.'

     "'...Nubile young girls are dragged into their nether world and
assaulted by an evil tribe of animal-men.'

     "The theories are many and, admittedly, the facts are often few.
Frequently, we must depend on folklore and ancient scrolls for our
research.  Many of our ancestors were believers in the diverse tribes
of inner earth and there are accurate statements, detailed information
and considerable documentation to support their theories...

     "Depending on our viewpoint and your bias toward the occult, the
pages that follow can be interpreted in many different ways.  A
psychologically trained individual might feel that these are excellent
case studies of individuals with severe psychopathologies.  Freudians
would find rich symbolism in the hollow earth theory; they might claim
it is a manifestation of a desire to recapture the lost security of
the womb.  Still others may feel the theory is constructed on
misinterpretation of natural phenomena...

     "It was a cold, blustery, winter evening of December 27, 1666,
when Dr. Jophn Frederick Schweitzer entertained his remarkable
visitor.  Throughout Europe, noblemen and peasants were celebrating
Christmas and the good doctor utilized his vacation to conduct a vast
number of experiments in his laboratory.  Soon, the results of those
experiments would be carefully scribbled into a large journal and sent
to alchemists throughout Europe.  It was Dr. Schweitzer's secret that
he was also known as 'Helvetius the Alchemist.'

     "'Helvetius' was puttering in his laboratory, cleaning
instruments after a long series of experiments, when a loud knock
sounded on the door.  'I opened the door and this strange man walked
into my workshop,' Helvetius recorded later.  'He was a sturdy, gray-
haired man, but there was a slimness to his body and a vigor in his
movement.  His face was oddly warm and friendly.'

     "The stranger walked confidently into the laboratory.  He shook
the folds of his white robe and snowflakes fell to the floor.  He
looked directly at Helvetius and asked, 'Do you believe in the
Philosopher's Stone?'

     "Helvetius suppressed an impulse to ridicule the bizarre costume
worn by the stranger.  'The philosopher's stone is a mere figment of
alchemical over-imagination,' he said, arrogantly.  'I believe in the
oneness of nature.  There is a natural pattern to the universe.  It is
sheer fancy to believe base metals can be transmuted into precious
gold.  Some alchemists have excluded mysticism from their laboratory.
I this room, the reality of the soul and spirit exists with facts.'

     "The stranger smiled and took a small package from under his
robe.  'Others of your kind are not so skeptical,' he explained. 'They
have seen this substance turn lead into gold.  Perhaps you would like
to try.'

     "Helvetius accepted the package from the stranger.  Later, he
described its contents as 'some form of glass, or a pale sulfurous
substance.'  The stranger carefully instructed the skeptical alchemist
in the relatively simple experiment.  Plain, ordinary lead was placed
in a crucible and melted to a bubbling mass.

     "'Encase the substance in fine yellow wax and toss it into the
crucible,' directed the stranger.

     "Helvetius followed the instructions and, as steam and vapor
disappeared from the container, he watched, incredulous, as the lead
seemingly was transformed into the purest of gold.

     "'A skeptic becomes a believer,' the stranger remarked, smiling.

     "Helvetius looked as if he were about to argue, then turned
suddenly and slumped into a chair.  'Is it really gold?' he whispered
hoarsely.

     "'The purest form of the metal.'

     "'Who are you?'

     "'A man who directs those who lead their people.'

     "'Where are you from?'

     "'I am one who dwells within the earth,' the stranger replied.
'When events make it necessary, we must come to the surface.'

     "Helvetius stuttered with confusion, his tongue stumbling over
the questions racing through his mind as his white robed visitor
prepared to leave the laboratory.  'Stay...Wait!...I want to know...'
he mumbled.

     "'There are others to see,' the stranger said.  'Here is one more
package of the substance.  It is the real Philosopher's Stone.'  Then
he opened the door and disappeared into the darkness.

     "Helvetius dashed to the open doorway and watched the cloak-
shrouded figure disappear into the snow-storm.  He shook his head in
disbelief and looked again.  There was the lane leading down to the
town.  There were the lights in the church, the houses the town--and
the stranger's tracks in the snow.

     "Helvetius conducted his second experiment that night. Again, the
lead bubbled with golden fury when the substance was added to the
crucible.  Forgetting his lack of sleep, Helvetius was waiting at the
shop of the goldsmith to the Duke of Orange when the craftsman opened
his door.  The goldsmith listened to the babbling alchemist and
frowned when he heard the phrase 'lead into gold.'  But, when the
goldsmith examined the precious metal, he said solemnly, 'It is the
finest gold I have ever seen.'

     "News of the sensational transformation spread throughout Europe
and scores of famous men journeyed to Helvetius' laboratory.  Baruch
Spinoza, the Dutch philosopher, was one of the first visitors.  He
discussed the transmutation with Helvetius and the goldsmith.  'I
checked the laboratory, and, additionally, made a careful examination
of the crucible,' Spinoza later recorded.  'Clinging to the sides of
the container were flecks of remaining gold!'"

     "...Is the transmutation of lead into gold an idle dream of
demented and reclusive chemists?  Not according to King Henry IV of
England.  In 1404, His Royal Highness decreed: 'From now on, no man
shall, under the penalty of felony, or death, multiply gold or
silver.'"

     Eric Norman described yet another visitor from "within the
earth".  This fellow however seemed to be more interested in the
process involved in transforming grapes into wine, rather than lead
into gold.  If this doesn't seem to make sense, read on:

     "Pepin the Short, the pint-sized father of Emperor Charlemagne,
was the founder of the Brunia Monastery in the fabled Trier region of
ancient Prussia.  In A.D. 1138, a strange series of events culminated
in an unusual visitation by a bizarre little man.

     "There had been several nocturnal visitations to the monastery's
wine cellar and its steward voiced his suspicions to the abbot: 'The
monks are slipping into the wine cellar and sampling the casks.'

     "The abbot frowned at the thought ofa possible scandal and asked,
'When did this begin?'

     "'It's been going on for several months.  I didn't mind it when
they only took a cup or two,' explained the embarrassed monk.  'Last
night, the culprit tapped a huge cask and forgot to stop the bunghole.
A whole keg of wine drained out onto the cellar floor.'

     "The abbot hurried to the cellar, inspected the damage, then
carefully tapped the bunghole in each of the huge casks.  He anointed
the cellar with holy water, securely locked the door and placed a
saint's relic above the entrance, declaring, 'None of our monks would
dare transgress against the power of the Cross.'

     "The following morning, a sleepy-eyed abbot unlocked the cellar
door and squinted into the dim room.  Followed by a group of curious
monks, the abbot discovered that another keg of wine had been tapped;
the floor was covered with the rich, red liquid. Suddenly, the abbot
spotted movement in the dark shadows in the far corner of the cellar.
'There's the thief,' he shouted. 'Grab the transgressor and prepare
him for punishment!'

     "Two burly monks rushed forward and grabbed the shadowy figure.
They carried the struggling thief into the light and the abbot stared
in wonder at a dark-skinned dwarf, who glared back in impassive
silence.

     "'Are you a Nubian?  How did you get in our wine cellar?'
inquired the abbot.

     "The strange little man would not speak.

     "'Do you have parents?' the abbot asked.

     "'Here!  Here!  This fellow got in through the wall,' called a
monk, pointing to a displaced stone that covered a small tunnel
leading down into the earth.  The bewildered monks crowded around the
secret tunnel as one quaking novice suggested the tunnel must lead to
the Devil's lair.  An older monk spoke knowingly of subterranean
demons who delighted in tormenting those who had taken the vows.

     "Despite his crime, the captured dwarf was accepted into the
society of holy men.  'He looks human and the least we can do is
provide the poor child with a Christian educatio,' the abbot said.
But, in spite of the kindness showed him by the monks, the dwarf
refused to utter a single word.  He sat quietly on the bed in a cross-
legged position, staring directly ahead and refusing all food and
drink.  After several weeks of fasting, the monastery dwellers were
concerned for the life of their visitor and a visiting bishop was
asked for his advice as the dwarf was brought into the great hall and
introduced to him.

     "'Good Lord!  You must expel this Devil's child at once!' the
alarmed bishop shouted.  'He is a demon and the tool of the devil!'

     "Gervase, a monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, England, later
inscribed this strange ending to the dwarf's appearance in his
manuscript: '...The demon ran in alarm from the holy words. He went to
the cellar and returned to his underworld tribe!'

     "The monastic scribes produced hundreds of manuscripts with
stories of visits from demons, evil apparitions and other 'devils'
from the vast subterranean world.  They were adamant in their belief
that a nether world, an underworld, existed beneath the surface.  Many
of these manuscripts told of long tunnels and deep caves that led down
to the inner world (Note: Although the various accounts of demonology
suggest that 'demons' or non-physical malevolent entities are
seemingly capable of appearing in para-physical or semi-solid forms
temporarily, there is no real proof that the entity just described was
such a creature. Since the various accounts suggest that both good and
evil beings reside in the 'underworld', he may well have been part of
an ancient branch of the human race who disappeared into the cavernous
regions below the surface of the earth.  Since black pygmies live in
abundance in Africa we should not consider this individual to be
entirely "alien" from any race now living on the surface - Branton).

     "A thirteenth-century historian, Saxo-Gammaticus, wrote down the
folklore and myths of Scandinavia.  He recorded the ancient VIKING
belief in 'Hadding Land,' a subterranean world where GIANTS,
superhumans, TRIBES OF BLACK DWARFS and 'SNAKE PEOPLE' lived.  These
strange beings, and even stranger animals, were said to occasionally
surface in the outer world and create chaos. The (Roman) church was
violently opposed to these beliefs and condemned such theories as
'ignorant superstitions.'  Gradually, such tales lost their element of
fact and truth and became a part of the folklore of northern Europe.

     "In Vol. 1, No. 6 of the NEWSLETTER FOR THE COMMITTEE FOR THE
SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF PSI, there is a fascinating account of a
laborer in Staffordshire, England, who may have glimpsed, for a
moment, the mechanical development of the aliens within the inner
earth.  Researcher Ronald Calais told of a tunnel laborer, digging
underground in 1770, who heard a roaring sound behind a large, flat
stone.  Curious, he pried away the stone with pick and crowbar and was
amazed to see a smooth stone stairway leading down into the earth.
The laborer's first thought was that he had discovered some type of
ancient tomb.  Envisioning vast chests of ancient treasures, he
cautiously walked down the stairs. Suddenly, the stairway ended and
the man was standing in a large stone cavern, filled with gigantic
machines.  The astonished laborer glanced about the well-lit room,
then saw hastening toward him a strangely-clad, hooded figure.  The
being held a baton-like object in his upraised hand and the terrified
laborer scrambled back up the stairway to safety." (Note: Other
accounts have referred to this chamber as the 'Rosicrucian Sepulchre',
although the Rosicrucians may not have had a direct connection with
it.  It is uncertain just what connections the Rosicrucians may have
had with the inner world, if any, other than this incident, the
Rosicrucian Grandmaster Bulwer Lytton's publication of the
subterranean-oriented book 'THE COMING RACE', the preoccupation of the
Rosicrucians with the strange stories surrounding Mt. Shasta, and the
connection of this secret society with the 'House of the Temple' in
Washington D.C. - Branton)

     In his book, 'DEPTHS OF THE EARTH - Caves and Caverns of the
United States' - (Harper & Row., N. Y.), William R. Halliday gives
some interesting observations on caverns of northern Arizona's
Coconino Plateau region:

     "...Those who dream of Butler Cave as potentially the world's
largest, however, must hasten.  The explorers of Mammoth Cave and
Flint Ridge--and of Jewel Cave--are not the only teams on the verge of
a breakthrough.  Missouri-Tennessee-few of our greatest cave areas
today can be denied a flickering chance at the title.  And for those
who dream of long shots indeed, our most magnificent cave area beckons
irresistibly: the Grand Canyon.

     "Perhaps in the purple shadows of the incomparable canyon there
really is no chance for a truly great cave system.  So believe some
experts.  Perhaps our hopes here are gossamer dreams, strung together
with wishful thinking.  Here I claim no impartial judgement.  My mind
is hopelessly influenced by the long intimacywith the timeless beauty
of that tranquil canyon. I have seen its magic pastels at moonrise
over the mile-high rim, suddenly dramatized by the weirdly luminous
flutter of bat wings. No caver brushed by such a spell is ever the
same again.

     "In this strange, magnificent country, much remains to be
learned.  Sinking streams, an occasional natural shaft, and plateau-
top sink-holes tell of much more water vanishing underground than
reappears in canyon-bottom springs.  Miles to the south, enormous
sinks and remnants of a throughway type of cave are evidence of
sometime profuse subterranean water flow. Fanning out from both rims
of the mile-deep canyon are vast plateaus capped with limestone 500
feet thick.  Yet caves seem few and tiny in these vast expanses of
plateau-top limestone.

     "The other massive limestones of the incomparable canyon lie
2,000 (feet) below.  Above them are 1,500 feet of sandstone and shales
which ought to block the downward flow of the water essential for cave
development.  Yet at this great depth occur the caves of the Grand
Canyon.  In the blazing, rock-tiered canyon, foot travel is difficult
and progress slow.  Still, cave after cave is coming to carbide light
in the purple-shadowed depths.  Some are merely shallow alcoves,
important only for archeological content.  Others are colossal natural
sewers, dwarfed only by their stupendous environs.

     "Yet it is this often-scorned limestone of the plateaus which
speeds the pulses of American caverns.  Just south of the Grand
Canyon, fluorescent chemicals introduced into a sucking 'earth crack'
of the Coconino Plateau have been traced to a 'breathing well' 24
miles away.  Initial calculations somewhat like those of Jewel cave
suggest a minimum air volume here of more than 7 BILLION CUBIC FEET.
Scientists of the famed RAND CORPORATION suspect the presence of
hundreds of miles of narrow, interconnected caverns fissuring the vast
plateau.

     "Many a veteran caver may consider such a cavern system
impossible.  Perhaps it is, but Arizonacaverns have already performed
the impossible.  In Sipapu Cavern, an earth crack near the Rand
Corporation study site, they have descended 500 feet toward the
massive cavernous limestone deep below.  In this locale the surface
limestone is only 248 feet thick.  Half of their descent was through
supposedly non-cavernous sandstone.

     "If one of the rare dome-pits of the Kaibab Plateau intersects a
washed-out section of a fault zone draining to a North Rim stream
cave, a depth record will be within reach. Geologically such a
circumstance is hardly more than a pipe dream of an irrepressible
caver overcome by the magnificence of the Grand Canyon.  But it may
happen.

     "Perhaps eager caverns plumbing the earth cracks of the Coconino
Plateau have little more chance than beneath the Kaibab. But if those
caverns can penetrate twice again as deeply as Sipapu Cavern, they
will begin to enter the limestone where great sewer caves may lie.  If
such do exist, they may enlarge away from the great canyon rather than
toward it.  They may not exist at all.  Yet a cavernous network
dwarfing that of Mammoth and Flint ridges may be penetrable here.
Some day obsessed caverns may break through the Coconino sandstone
barrier and the shales which underlie it.  If that happens, those who
follow in their footsteps may emerge triumphant from obscure orifices
deep in the heart of the Grand Canyon.

     "Even without such a triumph, even without knowledge of the
hundreds of undiscovered caves which must exist hidden in limestone
recesses of the mighty terraced depths, the Grand Canyon must be
recognized as one of America's great cave areas. To some, that
recognition alone would be achievement.  Yet sunbaked canyon caverns
have much in common with their Appalachian fellows.  Until every crack
is penetrated, every hole plumbed, spelunkers and speleologists alike
will remain unsatisfied.  Fragile indeed are the spelean threads which
weave together Sipapu Cavern and Butler Cave, yet such are caverns'
secret dreams."

     Brad Steiger, n his book 'STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES' (Lancer Books.,
N.Y.  1972) related the following (MIB-related?) incident:

     "...at sundown on February 12, 1953, witnesses told police that
they had watched an automobile enter the throat of a storm drain near
Willowbrook and Greenleaf Avenues in Los Angeles. Officers arrived on
the scene within ten minutes, and according to the Los Angeles HERALD
AND EXPRESS, they followed the fresh tire-tread marks into the tunnel
for seven miles.  Other policemen and flood control district workers
continued the search for the automobile by dropping through manhole
covers.

     "The trackdown continued until midnight when, seven miles up the
storm drain, THE TRACKS VANISHED.  'HERALD AND EXPRESS' newsmen who
had accompanied the police on the incredible search up the tube were
witnesses to the fact that: 'In the muddy silt covering the floor of
the drain, the tire-tread marks were sharp and fresh.  Then no more
tracks.'"

     From here we will now examine another incident, this one
involving a subterranean excavation in southern Idaho.  The letter
which we quote here was submitted by a George Haycock of Burley,
Idaho, and appeared in the Oct. 1947 issue of 'AMAZING STORIES'
science fiction/science fact magazine, pp. 174-175:

     "Sirs... Perhaps I have delayed over-long to send you my slight
contribution to the master code.  Why?  I was still afraid there might
be some slip that would put me in a bad spot.  I am a druggist in this
town and any trace of nut's talk would ruin my job.  I have been
waiting for the issue which just hit the newsstand and agree with you
completely.

     "There is in this area an artifact which seems to prove all you
have printed about the cavern dwellers.  First I want to ask a
question.  How are the caverns ventilated?  There is no vegetation to
purify the air in caves (i.e. small caverns, that is - Branton).
Therefore there must be some connection with the surface.  I know
where one of the air shafts reach the surface.

     "My grandfather was raised with the Indians in this section of
the country and has told me of the stories he heard when he was a
child.  The Indians describe the wind cave as it is called around here
as the home of the devils ho come forth in the dead of the night to
steal their women and food.  No Indian will venture within the area
inside of five miles of the cave.

     "Perhaps a description of the inside will make my meaning more
clear.  The entrance is just a hole in the rocks, but after getting
inside you come into a four-square tunnel about three and one half
feet square with a six-inch gutter along the west side, about 10
inches deep.  The tunnel is intact for about 100 yards and then opens
into what looks like it might have been at one time a completely ROUND
or half-round passageway which now looks like the solid lava which it
goes through has been chipped and crumbled by extreme heat.  It is
possible to travel for about half a mile inside before the tunnel
becomes obstructed too much for a man to get through.

     "I have been trying to get some one who would help me clear this
obstruction enough to get through and several have agreed but when we
get there and start to work they soon give up and want to get out.
Another funny thing is that every time I go back the work done before
does not show, yet there is not evidence of fresh falls of rock from
the ceiling.  At this point the feeling that you're in mortal danger
becomes almost overpowering, after battling this feeling for an hour I
feel as weak as if I had been sick for weeks and I have made this
attempt many times.

     "The opening has been dynamited at least four times that I know
of.  Supposedly to kill rattlesnakes, yet I have never seen one either
in the mouth of the cave or inside.

     "In fact my experience with snakes leads me to believe they would
never brave the cold blast that comes out.

     "Still the feeling of distrust and fear clings and none of the
natives will consider exploring this artifact which could be made the
biggest tourist attraction in this part of the state--if people were
just not afraid to go down in there.

     "This covers the known facts about this cave: yet since I can
remember I have dreamed, thought and considered many of the thigs
Shaver talks about in his stories, mostly those pertaining to mind
control...

     "Please ignore the mistakes and misspelled words in this letter.
Ordinarily I am a good typist and a good speller, but when I try to
put these things on paper I cannot hit the key I want to.

     "Please notice that the mistakes and misspelled words are mostly
where I try to describe the caves and conditions inside them.  These
happen even when I try to watch every stroke I make. I have recopied
this letter three times trying to eliminate the errors and still they
crop up in the same sections if not in the same words.

     "I am willing to discuss what I know with any one who won't
believe I am crazy, and would like to find some one who has the
intestinal fortitude to help me clear the obstruction to the major
cavern with which it connects which I know extends to the depth of
30,000 feet because it has been drilled into and that much cable let
out without hitting anything to drill in and I will show anyone who is
interested the entire set up.

     "My grandfather is now dead unfortunately so he cannot verify the
Indian stories mentioned, but if Mr. Hansen is as familiar with Indian
legends as he claims and really desires the truth have him work with
the Shoshones and the Blackfeet. Consider their tales of the demons
who work this countryside...

     "Write me if you're interested in these legends and any knowledge
I have is yours.

     "George Haycock., c/o Thriftway Drug., Main and Overland.,
Burley, Idaho."

     Raymond Palmer's editorial reply to this letter was as follows:
"We're sure that members of the CHMBS (Cave Hunters Mutual Benefit
Society) will contact you, and they won't consider you crazy.  We hope
you can tell them more about this cave, and show it to them.  As for
the depth of 30,000 feet, letting a cable, or string, down that depth
tells nothing, because it might be going down only a few hundred feet,
then simply coiling up on the floor, as the weight of the string would
make it impossible for you to tll when it had hit the floor... - Ed."

     This account as given by Mr. Haycock is strange to say the least,
however it may contain an significant piece of the puzzle whereas the
overall subterranean scenario is concerned.

     Two more postscripts to the George Haycock - Burley, Idaho
account have surfaced.  The first came from a man by the name of Frank
W. Haigler, and a Sgt. Brentlinger who was at the time stationed at
Hill Air Force Base near Salt Lake City, Utah.  Mr. Haigler had told
of his own investigations in connection with Mr. Haycock's letter in
'AMAZING STORIES'.  This letter of confirmation, which appeared in the
Jan. 1948 (Vol. 22, No. 1) issue, stated:

     "Sirs... If you file your correspondence, you will find a letter
there from this writer which was written in the early part of this
year, advising you of reading my first AMAZING STORIES magazine and of
my interest in the mystery of the caves, especially the articles by
Mr. Shaver.  I haven't missed a copy of A. S. since then and interest
in the mystery of the caves has grown until you may class me as an
unofficial member of the CHMBS.  In fact, the purpose of this letter
is to inform you of a recent expedition to one of the caves for an
investigation.

     "For you and those interested in the 'air shaft' near Burley,
Idaho, reported by Mr. George Haycock, whose letter was published in
the October issue of AMAZING STORIES, this is to verify the truth of
this cave.

     "M/Sgt. Brentlinger (a Shaver fan), stationed at Hill Field,
Utah, and myself made a trip to Burley over the weekend of the 17th of
August to ascertain the authenticity of both Mr. Haycock and the cave.
We had no trouble locating this gentleman and after explaining the
purpose of our mission he quite readily agreed to show us to the cave
and to guide us through, providing it was still possible to enter.
The entrance had been blasted since he was last in the cave, he
explained.

     "We drove about six miles west of town, then turned off the
highway onto a little rad leading through the desert sagebrush. Oddly
enough, this road was well worn and seemed to be much used although
there is no apparent reason for so much traffic.  We failed to see any
other cars either on the way in or out.

     "Even though he had been in the cave many times and to the
entrance as recently as three days prior to this trip, Mr. Haycock,
strangely, had difficulty in locating the spot and we stopped twice to
look before we finally found it about a mile from the highway.

     "The entrance was located in the center of a shallow circular
depression.  The surrounding terrain was nothing but sand and
sagebrush but jammed in around the opening were several large
boulders.  We found there was still a small hole running down through
the boulders and Mr. Haycock thought it still possible for us to make
entrance.  With some violent maneuvering we did manage to squeeze
through and we followed Mr. Haycock to the floor of the cavern.  Then,
crawling, kneeling and sometimes walking, we were led back through the
cave for approximately one-quarter of a mile.

     "The cavern was cut through what appeared to be lava rock. Walls
and ceiling are badly fallen-in in many places but there is enough
intact yet to give the general appearance that