#9 — Pages 35-39 of Eric Norman’s book, “The Under-People”, contains the following interesting statements:
“…There are many equally fascinating, and unsubstantiated, stories of subsurface tunnels in South America. Brazil has long been a hot point of inner earth belief, and several organizations devoted to its perpetuation maintain active chapters in the country’s major cities. The discovery of a new hole in the ground, a strange cave, or an ancient temple will send a frantic horde of hollow earth investigators pouring into the locale. I have corresponded with several of these groups. Some of their letters read like the frantic scribblings of madmen. Others are rational, well written and fascinating, even if they are a bit bizarre.
A sampling of this South American correspondence includes:
“…The well-known English explorer, Colonel Fawcett, disappeared in the jungles several years ago. He was searching for a tunnel entrance into the subterranean world in the Roncador Mountains when he disappeared. He was not killed by Indians. He is living in a cavern city beneath the Roncador mountains. His son, Jack, is also with him. They are well treated, but they are not allowed to return to the surface because they would reveal the location of the entrance.
“The entrance to the cavern city is carefully guarded by the Murcego Indian tribe. They are a ferocious, dark-skinned tribe with a highly developed sense of smell. You must obtain their approval before you can enter into the caverns. However, if they decide you are not worthy to share the secret, they will seldom allow you to return to civilization.
“There is a legend that the subterranean cities were originally constructed by the survivors of Atlantis. We don’t know whether the present inhabitants are the descendants of the Atlanteans, or whether they died and there were other races who eventually wandered into the cavern cities and settled there amid peaceful surroundings, abundance, and happiness…
“Another correspondent writes:
“’…at first I scoffed at such stories about mysterious tunnels and an alien civilization beneath the surface… I joined an inner earth group for the simple enjoyment of discussing outlandish ideas in a humorless, serious manner. Gradually, I became interested in the considerable volume of circumstantial evidence. I now believe the earth is absolutely honeycombed by a web of tunnels that run beneath the continents, under the oceans, and these passageways link the subterranean cities of the inner world.
“’…There are many reports concerning a vast tunnel called the ‘Roadway of the Incas‘ which has an entrance somewhere in Peru. It runs south for more than a thousand miles (and according to others was actually built by an even more ancient race, yet were discovered and utilized by the Inca later on. – Branton).
“‘There is another entrance to this fabulous tunnel in the Desert of Atacama in Chile. The ‘Highway of the Incas‘ passes under Cuzco, the legendary city in Peru. There is another smaller, but very well hidden entrance to the tunnel in the mountains near Machu Picchu, which is the capital city of the first and last Inca emperor. It is called ‘The Lost City of the Incas‘ and was not discovered until 1911 by an American, Hiram Bringham. It is considered the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World.’
“’ Everything at Machu Picchu is excellent preservation… there are more than to hundred buildings constructed from white granite… fountains… shrines… and gigantic stairways carved from a single massive boulder…
“’…This was a thriving city. It is intact except for the thatched roofs of the houses have deteriorated over the centuries… and, the doors are missing… it is as if the inhabitants selected a single day and mysteriously vanished. Did they enter the “Highway of the Incas” and migrate to the inner earth?…’
“Was this correspondent brainwashed by his colleagues to believe in the subterranean world? Or, was he a skeptical man who changed his mind in the face of a tremendous amount of information? His mention of the ‘Highway of the Incas‘ strikes a familiar note among the hollow earth fraternity. A physician in Argentina has devoted his spare time to an investigation of this legendary inter-continental tunnel of the Under-People. He commented:
“’…I have always been intrigued by the unknown and please convey my thanks to Dr. H— for providing this opportunity to publish my views. I am of the belief that there are two subterranean worlds. The cavern cities exist in cavities within the earth’s crust. There is a larger, more populous civilization in the hollow center of the earth and entrance to that new land is made through openings in the north and south poles.
“…I started to investigate the ‘Highway of the Incas‘ when I was a young, curious youth and I have hundreds of witnessed, notarized statements. These documents and tape recordings fill one room of my home. The Incas knew of the tunnel and although gold was of little value to them, they hid their treasures in these caverns to keep it from the greedy Spanish conquerors.
“No one has provided a satisfactory explanation for their mysterious disappearance. There was an empire of several million people that vanished from the surface of the earth. They entered the tunnel and left the Quechua Indians behind. As few Incas have been seen since then, they possibly took up residence in a cavern city or followed the tunnel to the interior of the earth.
“…The ‘Highway‘ is the largest of the tunnels and it connects all continents. In addition to the openings in South America, there are entrances in Canada, in British Columbia, in America… you should investigate Mt. Shasta in California and Mt. St. Helena in Oregon. The tunnel Is connected with Tibet and another opening in Central Asia. I believe the African entrance is in the Atlas mountains in the north of that continent.
“…I also suggest that you explore the ‘highways‘ which have been found in the oceans.
These ancient underworld civilizations may be mining our seas!”
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