THE SECRETS OF THE MOJAVE

(Or, The Conspiracy Against Reality)

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“‘Is this just an imaginary cave?’ No, the cave certainly exists. I have been in it.

“‘ Did Dorr keep its location secret?’ No. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people know it’s the exact location, high on the side of Kokoweef Peak in the Mojave Desert.

“‘ Has anyone tried to find this river of gold?’ Yes, indeed. The prosperous Crystal Cave Mining Corporation owns the property. “‘ Then what is the gimmick?’ That’s quite a tale.

“The beginnings of the story of the cave of gold are shrouded in the mists of the minds of old-timers. For a long time, prowling prospectors have known of the existence of the wide mouth of a deep cavern on the limestone flank of a peak which forms part of the east face of IVANPAH VALLEY — Kokoweef Peak. Even though only four miles by dirt road from the highway between LOS ANGELES and LAS VEGAS, the area was so desolate that, in the 1920s, weeks might elapse without the passing of more than an occasional prospector and his burro. The opening of the cavern was several feet in diameter and the cave was obviously much larger farther down. There were local stories that it was bottomless, although it took ‘only a few seconds’ for a rock to strike ‘bottom‘.

“Then someone found a narrow crack leading to ANOTHER cave, high on the east face of the peak. Maybe it was Dorr. The stories vary. One version repeats the common story of two Indians with a treasure map, which in this case was supposed to have shown the entrance to the cave. Dorr was well known in the area, having a claim across the valley, several miles southwest of Kokoweef Peak. Like any experienced prospector, he certainly prowled every ledge of the area. In any event, the new cave seemed even deeper than Kokoweef Cave. Like at least seven other caves in California, it eventually became known as Crystal Cave.

“Later, in 1934, another old prospector, Pete Ressler, was resting near the bottom of the southwest slope of the barren peak. He idly tossed a rock into a crack. To his surprise, it rattled back and forth for a long time until the sound died away into the depths. He strapped his load on his burro and headed for Mountain Pass Station for dynamite.

“‘What do you think it is, Pete?’ the men at the station asked him.

“‘ Quien sabe?’ he shrugged.

“Pete’s Spanish, however, was horrible. It sounded like ‘Kin Savvy‘ or ‘Kin Sabe,’ and this name stuck to the cave he dynamited open. It wasn’t much of a cave. It slanted downward but was filled with rubble (rubble from the dynamite blasts? – Branton) to a level not far below the entrance. Old Pete dropped out of the story. Dorr is the main character.

“Dorr must have been a strange person. No one else was particularly interested in the caves, but soon he was telling of an enormous cavern into which he was gradually making his way, trip after trip. The main part of the cave was a series of vertical drops from one small chamber to another. In several areas, there were small, dry pools that contained sharp little crystals. From one of the small rooms, a tight tunnel led a relatively short distance to a huge cavern containing a chasm 3,000 feet deep. He told of a stalactite 1,500 feet long.

(Note: Both Kokoweef and Door peaks are near the SW flank of the Ivanpah Mts., just south of Highway 91. Dorr alleged that he and his engineer, following the upper rock ‘tiers’, discovered a huge cataract or waterfall cascading down the side of the ‘canyon’ below what they judged to be Dorr Peak. They allegedly followed the upper ‘shelves’ for 8 miles. According to a map of the caves drawn by Herman Wallace Jr., under the personal instruction and supervision of Earl Dorr, the length of the ‘stalactite’ was given at only 500 feet long — although this would still make it the largest “known” stalactite in the world at this writing — and was located adjacent to the underground waterfall which flowed into the underground river at the bottom of the canyon as one of its many tributaries. – Branton).

“The cavern went on for miles. He had walked to the brink of the chasm but had not found a way to its bottom. There were places where the air came into the cavern, so other caves on the peak must open into it. And there ought to be an entrance somewhere on his claim, too. That was the direction the cave headed.

“Before long Dorr was claiming to have found a way down the wall of the subterranean canyon. Down below the wonders were even greater. He had found great deposits of placer gold. By this time he had the other old-timers half convinced. Still, THEY weren’t going into that awful-looking hole for all the gold in the U.S. Mint.

“One day in 1928 Dorr again told his friends that he was going into the cave for another trip. Two days passed three, four. His friends became worried. Gold would not tempt them to go into the cave, but they were his friends and the code of the desert is stern. Dorr might be trapped there, hurt, dying. A rescue party climbed to the mouth of the cave, where Dorr’s ropes were still fixed.

“Hardly had they all entered the cave when they met a raging Dorr they hardly know. Although disheveled and wild-eyed, he was obviously in no need of rescuing. Nervously they shrank away from his needless fury. Had he gone mad from his long stay underground?

(More likely it was the dreaded ‘gold fever’ which has affected the minds of men throughout the centuries and has often motivated them to acts of irrational cruelty – Branton)

They were trying to help him, yet he was accusing them of trying to steal his gold.

“Before they quite understood, they felt the dull impact of a HEAVY charge of dynamite. Then Dorr calmed down. ‘You’ll never get it now,’ he smirked.

“‘ That blast finished the tunnel to the river of gold.’

(Interesting Note: Halliday himself claims to have seen within this cave, along with several National Speleological Society or NSS members, the name of DORR written in black miner’s lamp soot near what appeared to be a black line left by a dynamite fuse, below which was a plugged area of shattered rock – Branton)

“We do not know whether Dorr was ever convinced that his friends were only trying to rescue him. For several years he was a familiar figure in the Mojave Desert. Continually he attempted to persuade people to run a tunnel into the cave of gold from the lower slopes of Kokoweef Peak. He would go shares with them. If they were willing to pay for the tunnel, they could have part of the profits.

“On this basis, few investors were willing to consider the project. Finally, however, a small group headed by a Los Angeles capitalist was willing to speculate on Dorr’s proposition. First, they tried the easy expedients. Kin Sabe Cave was the most accessible. Dorr thought it connected with the great chasm.

“They installed an inclined railway track and began to remove the rubble which filled it. Before long they had quite a respectable cave, 125 feet deep, but the air in it was completely stagnant. Over Dorr’s protests, they abandoned the attempt. If there was an entrance to the great cavern from Kin Sabe, it was too deep to bother with, at least until all easier possibilities had been investigated.

“Next they turned their attention to Kokoweef Cave, the first cavern discovered on the peak. A road was built to a nearby ledge and a short tunnel was drilled, connecting the bottom of the cavern to the surface of the peak. Again, much rubble was removed without encountering the true bottom. Operations were in full swing when someone discovered a mineral vein in the wall of the peak a few dozen yards from the tunnel. It was zinc, and high- grade ore. Because of the war zinc was at a premium. The Crystal Cave Mining Company promptly went into the zinc business. Dorr was disgusted. He abandoned the project. Occasionally someone would hear of him, still telling his story of prowling the hills near his old claim, still seeking another entrance to the cave of gold…”

According to ‘Sasquatch Researcher’ Virginia Louis Swanson, ‘Devil’s Hole,’ in Death Valley National Monument, NE of Death Valley Junction, CA., has been the scene of at least one disappearance. According to Swanson, two boys entered the cave several years ago and were never seen again. Navy scuba divers were lowered on cables and reported seeing a large river which roared up from below, flowing across a wide expanse. They could not estimate it’s depth because of a myriad of colonnades of black rock through which the river flowed before plunging once again down an abyss. The cave is somewhere NEAR ‘Devil’s Hole’ (which is still open to public view, although ‘fenced in’), and was allegedly sealed shortly after the disappearance.

It is interesting that Vincent Bugliosi, in his book HELTER SKELTER (pp. 232-233, 246) refers to Charles Manson, who believed that his ‘mission‘ was to start a race war called ‘Helter Skelter‘, then hide with his so-called ‘family‘ in an underground area near the Mojave Desert called the ‘Bottomless Pit‘, and then emerge after the ‘war‘ was over and rule the world. One version states that the Manson “family” had met with “strange people” out in the Mojave desert. Was he “programmed“? Manson was also convinced that he was Adolph Hitler’s illegitimate son.

One interesting bit of information was related by Robert K. Newkirk, in a letter in AMAZING STORIES Magazine, April 1949 issue, p. 140, stating that northern California’s “…Clear Lake has many underground caverns that we know have no endings and others that run to S.F. bay.”

Another anomalous account was related by Jack Peterson in a letter in SHAVERTRON, issue No. 14, describing the writer’s own experience near June Lake, CA, where he allegedly observed a small humanoid being (a gray?) coming out of a strange cone-shaped machine that emerged from the depths of the earth. The alien then re-entered the craft, following which its machine disappeared back the way it had come.

Turning for a moment from the subject of subterranean activity, we once again turn our sights toward the stars. Those who have been involved with research into UFOs, Underground Bases, and Secret Governments for any length of time will realize just how interconnected Aerial, Subsurface and Social phenomena actually is behind the scenes. For instance, Forest Crawford’s account of the recovery of a craft from Tau Ceti also involved underground bases and transportation systems, as well as top-secret government activity.

In addition to Crawford’s account, we have a corroborating report which appeared in ‘THE UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA’, by John Spencer (Avon Books., 1993). Under the heading ‘DR. OTTO STROVE’, we read how this astrophysicist assisted Frank Drake in establishing Project OZMA, and it’s very mysterious conclusion:

“…the project began its search by focusing on the star TAU CETI. According to claims made at the time, AS SOON AS the project got underway STRONG INTELLIGENT SIGNALS were picked up, leaving all the scientists stunned. “Abruptly, Dr. Strove then declared Project OZMA had been shut down and commented that there was no sensible purpose for listening to messages from another world.”

(Note: Or, was this merely an ‘excuse’ used by the secret government to keep the project and its findings SECRET? It would seem that Frank Drake — and Dr. Strove for that matter — has or had some connection with the Illuminati, as the Illuminati usually does not allow someone of Drake’s influence, for instance, to operate with impunity. Usually, people of such influence in economics, media, science, education, religion, and politics are either ‘bought off’ or blacklisted. Frank Drake, with his influence within the underground bases and disk recovery operations, is very obviously not on the Illuminati’s “blacklist” – Branton)

Back to the underground bases, UFOs, etc., — Jimmy Ward, in a letter submitted to GRAY BARKER’S NEWSLETTER (Aug. 1982, No. 16 issue), referred to an announcement made by the Canadian Research Council in 1942 of plans for constructing a vast underground complex to be built by AVRO Corp., which was to cover an area of about 75 square miles in the region between British Columbia and Alberta, bordering on the State of Washington on the south, and the Peace River district on the north. No further word of the project has been released.

Leslie Watkins, in his book ‘ALTERNATIVE 003’ (First published in London, reprinted by Avon Books, N.Y., 1978. 239 pp.) quotes from an ‘interview’ with a government official who told of the Government’s knowledge of entire ancient cities, linked by an elaborate complex of tunnels, far below the surface of the earth, which were lighted by a strange greenish luminescence, and the remains of which have been found under many parts of the world.

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