The following letter appeared in the November, 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES magazine, on page 174:
“Sirs: Here is some information you may have; if not, this can be added to the Shaver Mystery.
“I will reveal no names or how I came across this as it might involve the Ordinance officer who told it to some friends of mine.
“Recently in Mexico in some caverns the U.S. Army found six spaceships. They know not who they belong to, or what they are made of. The construction of them is strange as they seem to appear to run on compressed air or by some such method. I hope this will add to your knowledge.
“Kenneth Henderson., 1441 Madison Avenue., Indianapolis, Ind.”
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The following statement, made by Raymond A. Palmer, former editor of AMAZING STORIES magazine, was recorded on page 176 of the September, 1947 issue of that publication:
“…As for your editor, he can give you some of the information you want. For instance, we have close to 15,000 letters from pro and con readers concerning the Shaver Mystery (AMAZING STORIES was a very popular science ‘fact-ion’ – or science fact/science fiction – magazine during the mid-1940s, and is still a very popular magazine today… – Branton).
“We have perhaps 3,000 from people who have had similar experiences! We no longer count letters — we weigh them.”
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The following is part of a letter which appeared on pages 172-173 of the March 1948 issue of AMAZING STORIES:
“Sirs: …Then there is the Brotherhood of the White Temple of 1600 Logan Street, Denver, Colorado, owned and operated by Dr. Doreal and Dr. Ramose. This is another order that tells tall stories of giants, underground cities, and the pyramid of magnetic fire that always points toward the Sun on a magnetic belt deep in the earth, and many tales that stretch the imagination…”
— G. H. Spaulding., Box 1223., Warrenton, Oregon.
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Pages 355-356 of ‘The Word’ (a series of volumes dealing with the occult) contains the following information in the issue for Sept. 1917:
“…With elemental aid, man will learn the geography of the earth. At present, he knows little about the earth and its structure. All he knows is something about the seeming outline of the surface, the outer skin of the earth. Aside from the so-called geography, there is occult geography. Of this, he can know nothing except what he will learn with the aid of… the use of some faculties of his mind (see THE WORD., Vol. 11, page 193) which are now unworkable as adamant.
“Within the skin of the earth are other earths and earth organs, of which man has not as yet even dreamed. Within the earth are other earths and oceans and airs and fires, each of them peopled by beings, some of them human in form and others strange beyond fancy….”
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Pages 182-183 of “AN INTRODUCTION TO FOLK-LORE”, by Marian Roalfe Cox carries the following passage:
“…The idea of bliss is not incomparable with the underground abode. Legends tell of many a blissful sojourn in subterranean fairy-halls. In folk-tales, little children who are good fall into wells, and pass through green meadows to the house of the friendly Frau Holda. A well-known Chinese legend relates how two friends, wandering among the mountains in search of medicinal herbs, come to a fairy-bridge guarded by two maidens of superhuman loveliness, who invited them to cross into fairyland.
“The blissful period spent with the fairy-folk seems but as yesterday when it is passed; yet when the friends fulfill their desire to revisit their earthly home, they find that seven generations have lived and died during their absence, and they themselves are centenarians …”
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Pages 411-412 of Harriette Augusta Curtiss’ book, “THE MESSAGE OF AQUARIA”, carries the following information:
“….If it were possible to shut off all the other planetary forces and focus the Martian force it could be used to bore a tunnel clear through the earth. We are told that the Masters have constructed wonderful tunnels under continents and oceans through the help of the elements, but the elements and forces so used were not of Earth but of Mars.
Engineers say that they could tunnel through the earth even now if they could remove the debris as the greater depths were reached, but with the use of the Martian force there would be no debris to be taken out, for the sides of the tunnel would be compressed and fused and whatever resisted could be volatilized, and the tunnel, when completed, would endure as long as the planet itself.
“By the use of this force, all the great Centers on Earth can be connected when the time comes.”
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Pages 30 and 81 of the book, “GODS AND RITUALS”, by John Middleton, carries the following:
“…In the cosmogony of the Amba, there is another world under this one and our earth is the sky of this other world. Rain, for instance, soaks through the earth and rains once more in the world below.
“…the world contains certain other invisible creatures – the ‘people from below’ (i.e., living inside the earth), who are ‘good’ people, for example, anxious to insure rain for the humans…” (Otoro tradition)
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Page 155 of “THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE SAVAGES”, by Bronislaw Malinowski, carries the following passage:
“According to active tradition, mankind originated from the underworld, whence a couple, a brother and sister, emerged at different specified places. According to certain legends, only women appeared first. Some of my commentators insisted upon this version: ‘You see, we are so many on this earth because many women came first. Had there been many men, we would be few.’”
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On pages 176-177 of John Godwin’s volume, “OCCULT AMERICA”, we find the following information:
“…It is at this point that the UFO syndrome gets inextricably tangled with a row of underworld themes, bringing in earth gods, dwarfs, giants, subterranean serpents, and the whole kingdom of Pan, complete with the fauns, centaurs, and satyrs of classic mythology.
“A number of spiritualist organizations hold that these creatures – plus others undreamed of by the ancients – are alive and exceedingly active in the bowels of the earth. The ‘Borderland Sciences Research’ Associates of Vista, California, specialize in describing encounters with them; sometimes via psychic projection, occasionally in person.
“But with the coming of the UFO, a new dimension was added to the picture. One set of beliefs merged with another, so today we have the cavern creatures increasingly identified with outer space beings. Often to such an extent that the term Venusian, for example, could denote a (reptilian) inhabitant of sub-Antarctica as easily as a planetary dweller — simply according to who uses it.”
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