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James, Harry C.
– PAGES FROM HOPI HISTORY., Chapt. 6 includes a photograph of a strange mound believed by some Hopi elders to be the Sipapu entrance to the Hopi underworld. (Also see: Courlander, Harold)
Jamison, Prof. William
– HOLLOW WORLDS., Prof. Jamison was a former geology professor at the University of California. (Also see: Borino, Bob)
Jennings, Hargrave
– THE ROSICRUCIANS; THEIR RITES AND MYSTERIES., John C. Nimmo Co., London., 1887. Chapt. 2 – SINGULAR ADVENTURE IN STAFFORDSHIRE: An English laborer discovers an underground stairway leading down to enormous caverns beneath Staffordshire, England. (Also see: Calais, Ronald A.)
Jessup, M.K.
– SACSAYHUAMAN: MYSTERY CITY OF THE ANDES., Article in FATE magazine., March 1956., pp. 48-52: Refers to a network of ancient tunnels under the Incan fort of ‘Sacsayhuaman‘, some of which allegedly span hundreds of miles throughout the Andes region, and connect the fort with other similar tunnels under the city of Cuzco. Also reports of an exposed cross-section of a tunnel one-third mile north of Sacsayhuaman, 20 inches wide by 3 ½ ft. high, and miniature steps, which some belief could have been built by a highly skilled race of pre-Incan dwarves.
Johannes, L.W., Ed.
– S.M.R.S., a ‘Shaver Mystery‘ journal. Three issues published through 1968-1969.
John, Edward
– Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., May, 1946., pp. 171-173: Report of a “bottomless cave” with a stone staircase leading down into its bowels, and also strange cars sighted by the author near his home, which he occasionally observed entering and leaving a vertical cliff or rock outcropping between Hopland and Lakeport in Mendocino county, California., leading the writer to believe that a subterranean city lies beneath the area.
Johnston, Gilbert K.
– Letter in SEARCH magazine., June 1959., pp. 98-100: Refers to the writings of Gerald Light, G.W. Ballard, Ferdinand Ossendowski, C.W. Leadbeater, Madame Blavatsky, and Gurdjieff… all of whom believed in the existence of tunnels and inhabited subterranean realms beneath the earth.
Jones, Paget
– IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ORPHEUS., Article in NEWSWEEK magazine, Nov. 1964. The cavernous entrance to “Hades” is mentioned in a brief review of this legend of an explorer named Orpheus who, according to Greek legend, descended into the caverns of Hades and returned.
Jorden, Jay
– CAVE EXPLORERS FIGHT NATURE IN JOURNEY TOWARD CENTER OF EARTH., Article in THE GAZETTE TELEGRAPH., Feb. 14, 1982. Attempts by cave explorers to reach a new (1982) world’s depth record in one of Mexico’s largest known cavern systems. The explorer’s efforts are hampered by interference from superstitious natives.
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE
— Vo. 38, p. 137: A hidden cave in Duncan’s Ridge, on Martha’s Vineyard, MA., and stories of a flight of stone steps within the cave, leading down into a “land of fruits and flowers” inhabited by a race of small, dark-skinned people.
— Vol. 46, p. 353: The story of a blind Yavapai Indian shaman who claims to have been visited at night by a being claiming to be the “goddess” named “Komwidapokuwia” who told him that his ancestors in ancient times emerged from a cavern world through what is now known as “Montezuma’s Well” about 60 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona – in the Montezuma Castle National Monument.
— Vol. 47, p. 247: A Carrier Indian story of an Indian brave who entered a cave in a mountain beside Stuart Lake, in central British Columbia, Canada… and from which a stream flowed into the lake. He followed a strange “little man” into the cave, and eventually – after following the passage deep into the earth – emerged into a great underground country inhabited by the “Atnau” or “Little People“.
— Vol. 49, p. 132: The Taos Indian belief that their ancestors emerged long ago from a subterranean land, through a cave in Mt. Blanca, 20 miles NE of Alamosa, Colorado.
— Vol. 52, pp. 242-249: Several Indian traditions and beliefs in subterranean worlds, including a belief of the Caraja of Brazil that some of their ancestors emerged from a subterranean world where there was “neither sickness nor death.”