A Guide to the Inner Earth: L

**** L ****   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 […] Read More

A Guide to the Inner Earth: N

**** N ****   Nebel, Long John – THE WAY OUT WORLD., Prentice-Hall., Englewood Cliffs, NJ., 1961: Chapt. 9, pp. 134-140 – “Deros, Devils, and Snowmen“. A review of the ‘Shaver Mystery‘, including MANTONG, the so-called Shaver alphabet.   Neihardt, John G. – BLACK  ELK  SPEAKS: Refers to a journey to the land of the thunder beings: “…You shall see and have from them my power; and they shall take you to the high and lonely ‘center of the earth‘ that you may see even to the place where the sun continually shines, they shall take you there to understand … for yours shall be the power of the white giant’s wing, the cleansing wing…”   Nelson, […] Read More

A Guide to the Inner Earth: T

**** T ****   Tarde, Gabriel – UNDERGROUND MAN., Hyperion Press, Inc., Westport, CT., 1905., 196 pp.: Novel based on the premise that mankind will have to escape to the earth’s interior to survive a worldwide catastrophe in the future.   TATTLER, THE – by the editors of WEIRD STORIES., Illustrated Newspapers Ltd., London., pp. 54-58: Records the story of a mysterious “haunted cave” in Burma.   Taylor, Douglas – TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE DOMINICA CARIBS., Article in THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE., Vol. 65: The tradition of the Bataka tribe (Dominica, West Indies) of people who live in caverns beneath “Pegua Rock” on the Barakua Ridge, and a legend that they will not […] Read More

Zimbabwe’s Underground

Zimbabwe’s Underground [google_map_easy id=”1″] Location: Mount Nyangani Zimbabwe Functions:  maintenance and repair Levels: Unknown Tunnels to: Unknown Notes:  Mount Nyangani is the highest mountain at 2,592 m. The mountain is located within Nyanga National Park in Nyanga District, is about 275 km northwest Mutare. Source:     Location: Zimbabwe Functions: Unknown Levels: Unknown Tunnels to: Unknown Notes:   Source:  

Man Searching for Entrance to Hollow Earth Mysteriously Disappears

On the 4th of October, 2002, a bizarre guest arrived on the Coast to Coast AM radio show with Art Bell. The host had a reputation for analyzing mysterious themes with intriguing guests, but only few had ever sounded as amazed as this one. The guest – Dallas Thompson, was a legally blind personal trainer who spent his boyhood in Hawaii, but now lived in Bakersfield, California. Five years earlier, his life had changed forever after a terrible car accident. He was driving along the Highway during heavy rain when his car hydroplaned at 70 miles an hour, spinning four times before falling from a cliff about 250 ft. When he was found, the top […] Read More

1959: The Subterranean Cities of the ‘dero’ races

The following letter was sent to Richard Shaver by Dr. Raymond Bernard himself.  Shaver, in turn, passed it along to Ray Palmer, who published it in the October 1959 issue of SEARCH Magazine, p.48: Dear Mr. Shaver: “I have discovered several ‘dero’ races, who live in subterranean cities. If you came here I could bring you to the dero people, but they are NOT malicious  “First of all, they are vegetarians, as they cannot keep animals where they live, and a vegetarian diet makes people peaceful. They are simply the ‘Nibelungs’ or dwarfs, and with long white beards, of fairy tales, and they have dwarf women and children. Last week my investigators returned and said they […] Read More

Venezuela’s Underground

Venezuela’s Underground [google_map_easy id=”101″] Location: between the Sierra Maigualida and the Orinoco River. Venezuela Functions: Unknown Levels: Unknown Tunnels to: Unknown Notes:  “The Agartha, that mysterious underground kingdom that, according to the writer Ossendowski, lies under the Himalayas, is now in South America f we are to believe certain traditions. It was perhaps this South American Agartha that Harry Gibson, a Venezuelan pilot, saw during a routine flight in 1964, at the bottom of two craters in the jungle somewhere between the Sierra Maigualida and the Orinoco River.  “It is a strange story, and one would be tempted to place it in the same category as reports of imaginary kingdoms — El Dorado, Paititi, Moricz’s tunnel – if it […] Read More