PROJECT REDBOOK: I
IDAHO, BURLEY
– Druggist George Haycock claimed that he had explored a shaft that could be entered via a boulder-strewn depression or sink 6 miles west of Burley, and one mile off the main road [presumably in the opposite direction from the river?]. Native American legends told of a demonic race that would emerge from a cave and capture their women and children. Mr. Haycock reported psychic attacks and impressions of evil activities taking place underground. The shaft led to a long square-cut yet ancient horizontal crawlspace tunnel with branch tunnels and a cave-in which he attempted to dig through, although experiencing unusual “resistance” in doing to. He later wrote friends that someone was trying to blast the shaft closed with dynamite and also reported a death threat he had received in the mail telling him to cease and desist his explorations. Shortly after this, he was found strangled to death in his home.
source: AMAZING STORIES magazine, Oct. 1947 & Jan. 1948
ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
– Allegations that the Bahai Temple near Chicago, which has foundation “pillars” reaching hundreds of feet to the bedrock below, contains an entrance to an underground system deep below which connects to other underground systems.
source: Kenneth Van Hoof
INDIA, BENARES
– Shesha’s well, a stone stairwell leading down to a sealed “door” engraved with serpents. The site of many ‘channeled‘ Yoga texts and the traditional portal to Patala aka Snakeworld aka Nagaloka, a 7-leveled reptilian cavern world with its capital Bhoga-Vita.
source: VENOMOUS REPTILES, by Shirman A. Minton, Jr.
INDIA, KASMIRA
– Traditional entrance to the underworld of Patalas, which is divided into 7 realms: Rasatala, Mahatala, Alala, Sutala, Vitala, Talatala, & Patala. Some legends say that it is the abode of reptilian humanoids, but human “appearing” beings have also traditionally been encountered within Patalas. King Abhinandana allegedly entered this domain of “forbidden pleasures” via a portal in the peak of Pradyumna [or Hill of Sarika]. The underground journey to Patalas took 5 days and nights. Upon arriving, the king and his knights encountered an underground plain with trees from which hung human corpses, and also large vats of liquid in which human flesh and blood were mixed. A “woman” appeared and offered the king a cup of the “vile” liquid, stating that unless he drank it he would not prosper. He took the cup and threw its substance in disgust at the feet of the so-called “goddess“, who in anger told him to take his men and leave that realm, and King Abhinandana obliged.
source: SOMADEVA’S KATHA SARIT SAGARA [or OCEAN OF STREAMS OF STORY], Vol. 6 – “The Adventures of King Abhinandana”
IRELAND, MAYO COUNTY
– There is a “feeder” to the Aille river, which gathers on the foothills of the Partry Mts., being blocked as it reaches the lower slopes by a transverse outcrop of limestone cliff, beneath which it burrows for about half a mile before emerging into a large pool which feeds the mainstream, 12 miles east of Westport on the way to Lake Carra. In dry seasons some have entered the cavern once the sump/maelstrom has disappeared, and have reportedly seen large buildings with illuminated windows and other things “too dreadful to describe“.
source: FOLKLORE – A QUARTERLY REVIEW, issue #28, pp.92-93
IRELAND, STATION ISLAND.
An old legend tells how the knight Owen visited a cave on Station Island in County Donegal in the year 1153, leading to an underground plain and a “cloister” where he met monks who warned him of the temptations ahead. The knight travels to a black, icy realm and also sulfurous pits of molten metal in which the wicked suffer, finally arriving at the earthly paradise below the earth.
source: FLORES HISTORIARUM, by Roger Wendover; LEGENDA AUREA; Vincent of Beauvais’s SPECULUM HISTORIALE; SOUTH ENGLISH LEGENDARY