[7th edition]

Compiled by ‘The Group’ — Edited by ‘Branton’

Re-Edited 02,02,2020 for grammar and spelling – ‘Think’

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There have been SEVERAL documented cases of mysterious disappearances of persons in connection with subsurface and/or aerial phenomena. One such account involves the ancient Greek “Temple of Apollo“, in Hierapolis (now Pamukkale), Turkey. This city was once part of the ancient Grecian empire, which covered an extensive area in and around the Mediterranean sea. One article which appeared in the January 1989 issue of OMNI Magazine, referred to strange disappearances that had taken place in a cavern adjacent to these ancient temple ruins. The article quoted from the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher ‘Strabe‘ (who lived between 63 B.C. and 24 A.D.) to the effect that animals would often enter the cave and never return.Also, MANY PEOPLE throughout history who went past the mouth of the cave never returned.

The article also quoted one Sheldon Aaronson, a professor of microbiology at Queens College, N.Y., who told OMNI that several Australian students had entered the cave and disappeared just a few days before his visit in 1987. Sheldon stated: “The Turkish government put iron bars over the opening to prevent other people from ever going in. As far as we knew, the Australians were never seen again.” According to the article, the Greeks believed that the cavern was an opening into the “land of the dead ruled by the gods of the underworld.

“As for the possibility of an underground subterranean ‘world’, scientists tell us that the lowest depths of the earth (upper and lower mantles) contain temperature and pressure extremes so great that physical life could not possibly exist there.

Some, however, believe that there is evidence for the existence of a vast global network of CRUSTAL geothermal and hydrothermal cavities, some of these having been connected to the ancient deluge wherein the “…fountains of the great deep were broken up”. This allegedly occurred as magma-heated strata of subterranean water-filled caverns (brought to enormous pressures by an expanding and over-heated mantle) suddenly burst through the crust (Gen. 7:11), like a pressure boiler of enormous proportions suddenly splitting it seams.

Looking at a map of the ocean floors, one can see what seems to be a “seam“, similar to the seams of a baseball, which in ancient times apparently split or ripped its way around the entire planet. These “seams” are known as “rifts” in the ocean floor. Some have claimed that the underlying basaltic rock layers within these ancient and gigantic global aqua-systems were dissolved into these global subterranean reservoirs as their temperatures and pressures increased.

Eventually, the pressure became so great that at the weakest point this global layer of mineralized water broke through, and the tear made its way around the world at an incredible rate. It is not difficult to imagine that such a cataclysm may have caused the sinking of ancient landmasses as the underlying mega-aquifers emptied out and the overlying layers lost their support. Vast amounts of this overheated water — which had previously been dissolving the basaltic rock layers surrounding it — exploded to the surface, thus explaining why the oceans now contain a large percentage of ‘salt‘ content.

These underlying chambers, many of which collapsed yet many of which apparently remained intact, are believed to exist throughout the moho and crustal regions of the planet, just above the upper mantle.

This ‘Mohorovicic Discontinuity‘, or boundary point between the upper crust and lower mantle, is ‘on the average‘ a dozen or so miles below the surface — or from a few miles below the ocean trenches to a few dozen miles below large mountain ranges.

So it is possible that caverns of immense extent, containing life-supporting conditions, may conceivably exist to depths of 40-50 miles, especially under the larger mountain ranges. Below that (beyond the Moho) the pressure and temperature extremes would make physical life unbearable, if not impossible.

Other higher-level cavities created through geo-seismic activity may also exist, cavities which may dwarf the Flint Ridge- Mammoth Caves of Kentucky or New Mexico’s Carlsbad- Lechuguilla cavern systems. It is suggested that THESE may contain conditions sufficient to support physical life (i.e. air, water, subterranean flora and fauna, and perhaps even electromagnetically-induced illumination diffused throughout the underground “atmosphere” through a phenomenon somewhat similar to the effect produced by the Aurora Borealis or “Northern Lights”. In this case, it has been suggested that powerful electromagnetic currents moving through the earth and interacting with the underground atmosphere may account for the diffused twilight illumination permeating the underground atmosphere, as has been described in various accounts of those who claim to have managed to find their way into the more extensive and deeper cavern systems).

There have been several accounts concerning individuals who have encountered human beings — some who spoke the native language and others who spoke a language entirely foreign — within deep underground tunnels and caverns. There are many such cases, but we will concern ourselves with only one of these at this point (and will reserve the others for later in the text)… an incident which may be one the most well-known and most well- documented accounts of this type:

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