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LAIR OF THE SNOWMAN, THE
– Article in FATE magazine., Oct. 1953, pp. 11-12: The claims by Prof. Norman G. Dhyrenfurth of his discovery of caverns inhabited by the “Yeti” near Kathmandu, Nepal.
Lang, Johannes
– Books on the ‘Hollow Earth‘ published in Germany, circa 1930-1940.
Langdon, Stephen H.
– SEMITE MYTHOLOGY., p. 37: The shrine of Hierapolis, built after the deluge over a cavern which, according to tradition, “miraculously yawned at Hierapolis and received the waters of the Flood.”
LaPriore, Jerry
– Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., June 1945, p. 193: Stories of large but hidden caverns near Fall River, MA., inhabited by strange-looking beings.
LARGEST CAVE CHAMBER FOUND.,
Article (source unknown) dated Feb. 1, 1981., reprinted in THE HOLLOW HASSLE newsletter., May 1983: The discovery of the world’s largest – to date – cavern chamber in the Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia – a chamber 2/3rds of a mile long, 272 yards wide and approximately 76 yards high.
Larsen, Harvey, Ed
– THE SHAVER MYSTERY: SPECIAL REPORT #6 (In THE CRYSTAL BALL newsletter., Torrance, CA.)., 1980., 26 pp. illus.: A collection of rare material on the Shaver Mystery, Inner Earth phenomena, and the “Siberian Affair” (concerning an ancient race of evil reptilian entities – shapeshifters – accidentally awakened by Russian scientists from a state of frozen suspended animation). Also see: Dickhoff, Robert E., & Girvin, Calvin.
Leadbeater, Charles W.
— THE ASTRAL PLANE., Theosophical Publishing House., Madras India., 1985., p. 91: Discussions on the unknown inhabitants of the interior of the earth.
— THE INNER LIFE., Theosophical Publishing House., Wheaton, IL., p. 231: Description of the interior of the earth and its inhabitants.
— THE MASTERS AND THE PATH., Theosophical Society of America., 1925., Theosophical Press., Chicago, IL., 328 pp.: Considerable information on the hidden underground kingdom of ‘Shambhala’ below Mongolia and surrounding regions, ancient tunnels, and a vast subterranean museum (like the Egyptian ‘Hall of Records’) under the surface of Tibet – containing ancient machines, artifacts, and priceless records which much of the forgotten history of the human race.
— THE THEOSOPHICAL MESSENGER., May 1909., p. 340: A description of the interior of the earth and its inhabitants.
Leadbeater, Charles W. & Besant, Annie
– THE LIVES OF ALCYONE; Theosophical Publishing House., Madras, India., 1929., 2 vols. illus., Chapt. 35: A semi-fictional “racial-memory” account describing “Alcyone’s” expedition to an inhabited subterranean world, entered through a secret cave in northern India or Nepal. the inhabitants of which were a strange race of people whom Alcyone believed to be descendants of an ancient ‘Lemurian‘ root-race.
Lee, Bourke
– DEATH VALLEY MEN., The Macmillan Co., NY., 1932., Chapter – OLD GOLD: Describes the allegedly real discovery within the Panamint Mountain Range (on the west edge of Death Valley, CA) of an ancient, abandoned cavern city containing priceless treasures and artifacts of an ancient civilization, the inhabitants of which long ago went deeper into the earth beneath the Panamint range where they found larger caverns with natural electro-magnetic auroral atmospheric illumination. It also mentions a tunnel in the vicinity which one man entered, leading to a cavern world deep underground, where he encountered strange beings with whom he lived for three years before returning to the surface. (Also see: Oga-Make., TRIBAL MEMORIES OF THE FLYING SAUCERS)
Leedy, Ruth A.
– REBIRTH OF A PLANET., Privately printed., 1983 (Distributed by Gray Barker Books): Speaks about a conspiracy by government and scientists to deny the existence of a Hollow Earth. (Also see: Benton, Floria)
Lehew, George A.
– Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., Dec. 1946., p. 162: A cave about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, PA., in a peak in the first range of the Allegheny Mountains, which was found to contain a smooth, apparently mad-made shaft, which was – according to certain reports – explored in 1915 for 18 miles by an expedition party which at one point distinctly heard the rumble of machinery.
Leslie, Sir John (1766-1832)
– THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: This famous Scottish mathematician and physicist theorized – based on his calculations – that the earth was hollow, containing possibly two central miniature “binary suns” – one which he called “Pluto” and the other “Prosperina” in its interior. Leslie was the fourth known theorist to advance the idea of a hollow earth, succeeding Cotton Mather, Sir Edmund Halley, and Leonard Euler… and preceding later theorists such as John Cleaves Symmes, William Reed, Marshal B. Gardner, and Raymond W. Bernard.
Levesque, Mary
(See: Martin, Mary & Davis, Mary)
Levesque, Thomas Alan (T.A.L.)
— OUR PARADISE INSIDE THE HOLLOW EARTH., Article in THE HOLLOW HASSLE newsletter., Vol. 2, No. 1: Refers to the lush vegetation and pristine-paradisial nature of the geo-concavitic world within the ‘hollow sphere’ of the earth.
— PHANTOM PHENOMENA: THE CATTLE SURGEONS. Article in the NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL., Spring (1980?). References to the Inner Earth.
— SUBLIMINAL EXPLORATION., Article in the NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL., Sept. 1978: The ‘sacred‘ (according to local native Americans) Cabazon peak – 40 miles NE of Mt. Taylor, NM – within the extinct volcanic interior of which, a giant human being was believed to have lived.
— UNDERGROUND UFO BASE SUSPECTED BY OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON., Article in THE HOLLOW HASSLE newsletter., Vol 2, No. 2: A UFO base suspected to lie under the Yakima Indian Reservation, SE of Tacoma, Washington.
— U.S.A. INNER EARTH ACCESS MAP., 1978., The NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL., Fall 1980., p. 35: Shows the ‘first level‘ of suspected tunnel systems below the surface of the United States (Also see a similar map of reported entrances in the Fall 1979 issue., p. 49).
Lewis, David H.
— THE INCREDIBLE CITIES OF INNER EARTH., Science Research Publishing House., 1979: The daily account of the alleged exploration of an underground city and a subterranean mechanical complex attended by automatons, under the surface of Connecticut, one of seven similar cities believed to exist, according to an ancient manuscript reportedly uncovered in Egypt.
— MYSTERIES OF THE PYRAMIDS., Science Research Publishing House., 180 pp.: The alleged discovery of hidden chambers containing strange machines and priceless historical records, beneath the base of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh in Egypt.
Ley, Willy
– THE HOLLOW EARTH. Article in GALAXY magazine., Article in GALAXY magazine, March 1956: Historical information on various Hollow Earth theorists, as well as some pros and cons concerning the Hollow Earth postulation.
Lindelof, O.J.S.
– A TRIP TO THE NORTH POLE, OR THE DISCOVERY OF THE TEN LOST TRIBES AS FOUND IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN., Tribune Publishing Co., Salt Lake City, UT., 1903., 210 pp: A whaling vessel, the Mt. Walston, disappears during 1879 after leaving port in San Francisco and enters a hidden northern Polar country on the far side of the Great Northern Ice Barrier. Here the crew finds the Lost Tribes of Israel, according to a bottled manuscript allegedly recovered south of Baffin’s Bay, off the coast of Greenland (Also mentioned in ‘THE LOST TRIBES’, by R. Clayton Brough).
Lissner, Ivan
– THE SILENT PAST (translated to English): Refers to the BOOK OF HENOCK, which describes an underground chamber in the land of Canaan: “The subterranean building that he constructed in the land of Canaan in the bowels of the mountain, with the help of his son Mathuslalth, was in imitation of the nine vaults…” Also refers to large subterranean buildings (or ‘ground scrapers’) on the Grand Canary island.
Lloyd, John Uri
– ETIDORHPA, OR THE END OF THE EARTH., Reprinted by Health Research in an expanded edition., 518 pp., Condensed version by Palmer Publications, Amherst, WI.: This unusual book related the underground journey made by “I am the Man“, a member of a secret order of Masons. Some suspect that this may have been Capt. William Morgan who disappeared after printing an expository work on Freemasonry, and who some believe was murdered by a dark Masonic cult. Whether or not Morgan was “the man“, the subject of the book ETIDORHPA – under the guidance of a particular being – leads him into the interior of the earth, through a hidden cave in Livingston County, Kentucky., and they eventually reach the hollow interior of the planet, or the “Inner Sphere“, some 800 miles under the outer surface of the earth. The legends of “Aphrodite” apparently had some significance in the inner world, since “Etidorhpa” is “Aphrodite” spelled backward. (Also see: Walton, Bruce)
LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER.,
March 25, 1982: Article concerning Russian preparations for the construction of a ‘Terra-jet‘ engine to bore 62-125 miles deep into the Earth. (Reprinted in OUTER SPACE PEOPLE AND INNER EARTH PEOPLE, by William L. Blessing)
LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
– Apparently a collection of legends concerning Adam and Eve, yet not written by the original couple themselves. The “Book of Adam and Eve” (first ten chapters) refers to the earth’s interior. The “Second Book of Adam and Eve“, 1:1-9, refers to Adam, who was said to have dwelt beneath the eastern border of the Garden of Eden… “And God commanded him to dwell there in a cave in a rock – the Cave of Treasures below the garden.:
LOST PYRAMIDS, THE
– Article in FATE magazine, January 1956., pp. 6-7: The 7 great pyramids of Shensi Province, China, the largest being twice the size of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, Egypt. According to R.C. “Doc” Anderson, these pyramids contain an entrance point to a large tunnel system (Also see: R.C. “Doc” Anderson’s account in Warren Smith’s book, THIS HOLLOW EARTH; Also: Ross, John C.)
Louise, Virginia
– NIGHT-SIDE OF GOLD., Budget Book Mfg. Co., San Diego, CA., 1978: Refers to Bigfoot or Sasquatch, which the author believes inhabits a cavern system stretching down through the state of California, through which large subterranean rivers flow. (Also see: Flynn, George)
Lovecraft, Howard P.
– THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM., Arkham House Publishers., Sand City, WI; The Collegiate Press., Menasha, WI; Chapt. 19., pp. 305-372: Contains a reportedly fictitious story by Zelia Bishop, titled THE MOUND, concerning a strange Spanish manuscript discovered in a mound near Binger, Oklahoma, in 1928. Describes a journey made by a Spaniard, ‘Panfile de Zamacona y Nunez‘, to the subterranean world of ‘Xinaian‘ (pronounced “K’n-yan”). Essentially the same story appeared in THE SHAVER MYSTERY AND THE INNER EARTH, by Timothy Green Beckley, in the form of an old, reprinted newspaper article. Due to the similarities between the book and the article, there seems to be a connection between the two, but whether the story is based upon actual events or legends is uncertain.
Lovelace, Leland.,
LOST MINES AND BURIED TREASURES., The Naylor Co., San Antonia, TX., 1956: The discovery by two prospectors of a series of caves in the mountains of southwestern Nevada in which they found “furniture of an immense size as if built by giants,” and dishes made of gold and an imperishable alloy, all bearing evidence of being undisturbed for many centuries.
Lukyanenko, Konstantin
– CHAMPIONS OF THE UNDERGROUND KINGDOM., Article in THE MOSCOW NEWS WEEKLY., April 20-27., 1980., No, 15 (#2899): A group of Russian speleologists who spent more than 80 days exploring one of the deepest caves in for former U.S.S.R., called “Snezhnaya Cave” – entered high on the side of a mountain on the shore of the Black Sea. Although they did not reach its’ end, they discovered several forms of strange subterranean life forms, including large mushrooms, aquatic life, shrimp, and spiders existing at a great depth.
Lyon, William F. & Sherman, M.L.
– THE HOLLOW GLOBE, OR THE WORLD’S AGITATOR AND RECONCILER., Religio-Philosophical Publishing House., Chicago, IL., 1868. Reprinted by HEALTH RESEARCH. A treatise on the physical “hollow” conformation of the earth.
Lytton, Lord Edward Bulwer
— THE COMING RACE., Joseph Knight Co. Publishers., Boston, MA; Reprinted by HEALTH RESEARCH: The story of a man’s encounter with a subterranean civilization called the “Ana” (or “Vril-ya”) during the exploration of a strange shaft which he and fellow miners had broken into. This race possessed a powerful force called “Vril“, and near the end of the 3rd Reich of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler heard of this story and created the “Vril Society“, and he and his demon-worshipping inner elite attempted to make contact with malevolent subterranean races in order to gain more occult power.
— VRIL: THE POWER OF THE COMING RACE., Rudolph Steiner Duplications., Blauvelt, NY.