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Kafton-Minkel, Walter
— SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS., unpublished manuscript., Portland, OR: A historical review of several ‘Hollow Earth‘ theories, including information on the early proponents of the theory.
— THE LEGENDS OF MT. SHASTA., Article in ‘HOLLOW EARTH NEWS’, Vol. 1, No. 1., Oct. 1981., Hollow Earth Society of Kentucky (Also see: HOLLOW EARTH NEWS); adapted from a chapter in SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS (see above).
Kapierlian, Maude
– LOCH NESS SERPENTS., Letter in FATE magazine, Sept. 1958, pp. 11-12: The belief in a deep aquatic cavern connecting Loch Ness in Scotland with the sea.
Kaye, Marx
– Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine, June 1947, pp. 168-171: Hidden caverns and Inca tunnels in Peru.
Keel, John A.
– THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES., Saturday Review Press., Dutton, 1975, pp. 170-171: An engineer named Rex Ball of Georgia, in 1940 stumbles into a vast underground complex occupied by ‘Oriental looking men‘ wearing coveralls and accompanied by American military officers. (Also see: Chase, Frank Martin)
Keightley, Thomas
— THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY., H.G. Bohn., London 1850; reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corp., 1969: Several accounts of encounters with fairies throughout the world. Pp. 281-283: An account recorded by Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newbridge of two green-skinned children who emerged from a cavern, disoriented, in some ‘pits‘ about 5 miles from Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk, England, and who – once they lived on the surface for a time and learned the English language – claimed to have come from an underground country called “St. Martin’s Land“, apparently named after a “Christian” saint who discovered this underground land in much earlier times. (Also see: Drake, W.R.)
— THE WORLD GUIDE TO GNOMES, FAIRIES, ELVES AND OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE., 1888; reprinted in 1978 by Avenel Co., NY: Accounts of little people who inhabit caves, hollow mountains, and other underground areas.
Kenton, Edna
– THE BOOK OF EARTHS., Circa 1928., 262 pp. illus., Chapter: EARTH A HOLLOW SPHERE.
King, Godfre Ray (Pseud.)
– See Ballard, Guy.
Kirk, G.S.
— MEANING AND FUNCTION., p. 138: The Mesopotamian tradition of a man who, after traveling twelve leagues through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of “Mashu“, emerged into the brilliant light of a jeweled subterranean garden. This story is recorded in ancient Mediterranean records
— THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS AND FAIRIES: A STUDY IN FOLKLORE & PSYCHICAL RESEARCH., 1691., Republished by Rowan & Littlefield (Publishers for the FOLKLORE SOCIETY – Mistletoe series)., Totowa, NJ; Also published by D.S. Brewer, Ltd., Cambridge, England: A treatise on the diminutive subterranean inhabitants of earth’s interior.
Klein, David
– AMATEUR EXPLORER DISCOVERS VAST CAVERN SYSTEM CONTAINING UNDERGROUND RIVER WITH GOLD., Article in THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER., Feb. 4, 1973., pp. 16-17; Discovery of a strange cavern system located about 300 miles NW of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in which large amounts of gold-bearing sand, huge unidentifiable footprints (subterranean Sasquatch?), white frogs and perfectly round polished stones, were found. These findings, according to the article, were immediately suppressed by the Government soon after the discoverers reported it to officials. (See also: Gesner, Charles H.)
Klein, John
– Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., Sept. 1945, pp. 167-168: The writer’s ‘dreams‘ or ‘racial memories‘ of an underground ‘city‘ beneath the surface of an ancient Pacific ‘continent‘ called Lemuria (which according to legend sank in similar fashion as Atlantis, some of the residents known as the Naga-Mayas allegedly taking refuge within large caverns inside Mt. Shasta, California). Mr. Klein also describes his dreams/visions of a race of 12 ft. tall human giants who supposedly lived in and utilized these caverns beneath this now-sunken continent.
Kolosimo, Peter
— NOT OF THIS WORLD., Bantam Books, NY: A strange, ancient system of tunnels discovered under the Mongolian lamasery of Tuerin. (Also mentioned in THE NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL., Fall, 1980, p. 31)
— TIMELESS EARTH., Garnestone Press., London 1973: Inner Earth material, including a report about a “bottomless well” in Azerbaijan, Russia., which Russian scientist had found to connect with other similar tunnel systems in Georgia and “all over the Caucasus“.
Koresh (Pseud.)
– See: Teed, Cyrus R.
Kramer, Eleanore
– Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., Sept. 1945., p. 175: The disappearance of seven students from the University of Cuzco (Peru) after they entered a dark opening leading into the bowels of the earth, which they had discovered amidst the remains of the Incan fort Sacsayhuaman… the entrance to this tunnel was later sealed off by the Peruvian government.
Kuiper, G.S.
– Article in POPULAR ASTRONOMY., 1946 (specific issue uncertain): Inner-earth related information.