During the ‘Subterranean World’ controversy which filled the pages of AMAZING STORIES Magazine in the late 1940’s as a result of the writings of Palmer, Shaver and numerous readers who sent in their own contributions, a couple by the name of John & Dorothy de Courcy became involved as well. They had sent in a fictionalized novelette based loosely on the ‘Agharti’ legends, which was published in the magazine. Sometimes afterwards, in the Dec. 1946 issue of A.S. (p. 173), they submitted another letter describing a strange ‘response’ to their story:
“Sirs.”The most singular thing has happened and we are at a loss to offer an explanation. It might be a prank, but unless someone is willing to spend a good deal of money on a prank, it must be the truth!”On July 29, a tall man wearing a long blue or black overcoat and a dark hat drawn down to conceal his face, went to a former residence of ours in San Francisco asking for us. He was told we had moved and the landlord tried to find a card bearing our forwarding address.
Try as he might, he couldn’t, nor could he remember even the city, but he said he thought it was Portland. When told, the man answered, ‘I quite understand. If you find the address, kindly write them and say, “the man from Agharti” seeks them.'”On August 5 he reappeared in Portland at an apartment house where we had once lived. Again our address was missing and again he left the same message, adding, ‘I bear a message for them from the King.'”In both cases, after we had gone, our forwarding addresses were found and both landlords wrote to us immediately apologizing for their oversight. They said he impressed them so much they couldn’t forget him. Both of them misspelled Agharti in their letters.”Who is the King? Can he be referring to the fabulous King of the World? The only solution we can suggest is to publish this letter with our address and hope that this time the man from Agharti, if he be such, will find us.” — John & Dorothy de Courcy., 665 S. W. 113th Place., Seattle 66, Washington.”
As further evidence that not ALL subterran societies are of the insidious, reptilian or reptilian-controlled variety, we add the following revelations from ‘Commander X’, the mysterious anonymous U.S. Intelligence official who has revealed much about ‘inside’ government knowledge of alien civilization both beyond and beneath the earth. He is the author of the book ‘UNDERGROUND ALIEN BASES’, published by Tim Beckley’s UFO REVIEW-Abelard Press, N.Y. Mr. ‘X’ was apparently very familiar with the Subterranean-world controversies that surrounded AMAZING STORIES and related publications in the early years, which may explain his present position in U.S. Intelligence. He reveals the following subterranea-related accounts from South America:
“..Of all the countries on the face of the Earth, none is more mysterious, or less explored, than is Brazil. Miles upon miles of this country have never been set foot upon by white man. In these areas live whole tribes of savage Indians whose civilizations are said to be akin to those existing at the time of the Stone Age. Many of those who have dared venturing into these pockets of unexplored jungle have never come out. Perhaps the case of Colonel Fawcett will be familiar to readers as an example of what I mean.
He supposedly was captured by a tribe of wild Indians while in search of a ‘hidden city’ said to be located in the confines of the dense jungle…”Before his death, Dr. (Raymond) Bernard had sent this writer many personal letters regarding his findings related to… underground civilization(s). We quote from these communications in the following:
“‘I arrived in Brazil in 1956 and have been carrying on my research since I met a Theosophical leader who told me about the subterranean cities… that exist in Brazil. He referred to Professor Henrique de Souza, president of the Brazilian Theosophical Society, at Sao Lourenco in the state of Minas Gerais, who erected a temple dedicated to Agharta, which is the Buddhist name of the subterranean World. Here in Brazil live Theosophists from all parts of the world, all of whom believe in the existence of the subterranean cities.
“Professor de Souza told me that the great English explorer Colonel Fawcett is still alive, living in a subterranean city in the Roncador Mountains of Matto Grosso, where he found the subterranean city of Atlanteans for which he searched
(Note: Bernard refers to the inhabitants of this city as ‘Atlanteans’, when in fact other accounts suggest that–like the underground cities below the east coast of North America–many of these cavern cities were originally constructed by an ancient antediluvian race which might have been very similar to the lost race spoken of in the ‘Atlantis’ legendary, and were later re-inhabited after the flood.
In ‘this’ sense they might be referred to as ‘Atlanteans’ although the present inhabitants of such cities probably do not have any direct ‘genetic’ ties to the antediluvian ‘Atlanteans’. – Branton),
but is held prisoner lest he reveal the secret of his whereabouts. He was not killed by Indians as is commonly believed. Professor de Souza claimed he has visited subterranean cities, including Shamballah, the world capital of the subterranean empire of Agharta. I then went to Matto Grosso to find the subterranean city where Fawcett is claimed to be living with his son Jack, but failed to do so.
I then returned to Joinville in the state of Santa Catarina, and there continued my research.”Just recently two explorers returned from entering a tunnel near Ponte Grosse in the state of Parana. One of them had recently entered alone and spent five days in the underworld city there. It had about 50 inhabitants plus children. The fruit orchards were recently planted, and the inhabitants received fruit from another subterranean city.
During the last visit, the two explorers were met at the entrance of the tunnel by a guardian and the chief of the city, who told them that they should return in two years when the fruit trees will start to bear, but cannot enter now.”The same two explorers entered a tunnel in Rincon, state of Parana, and finally came to a chimney-like structure with four chains hanging down.
They descended on the chains but when they came near the bottom a gas with a chemical odor started to come up and forced them to ascend. Obviously the subterranean dwellers tried to keep them from reaching the city (This seems often to be the case – Commander X).”Our explorer J.D. (name on file – Commander X), who is a mountain guide of the Mystery Mountain near Joinville (where there is supposed to be an entrance) said that, several times, he saw a luminous flying saucer ascend from the tunnel opening that leads to a subterranean city inside the mountain, in which he heard the beautiful choral singing of men and women, and also heard the ‘canto galo’ (rooster crowing), a universal symbol indicating the existence of subterranean cities in Brazil.
He said that the saucer was so luminous that it lit up the night sky and converted it into daylight. On one occasion he met a group of subterranean men outside the tunnel. They were short, stocky, with reddish beards and long hair, and very muscular. When he tried to approach them, they vanished. Often he saw strange illuminations in this area at night which were probably produced by flying saucers.
(We use the name ‘Mystery Mountain,’ rather than reveal the true name of the mountain, so that unwanted outsiders will not come here to locate it).
Throughout my many years of research I have accumulated a vast amount of data which would indicate that these entrances to subterranean cities abound throughout the region.”An elderly man living in Joinville once told me that he had visited a tunnel near Concepiao in the state of Sao Paulo, and saw in the distance a marvelous subterranean city with vehicles darting back and forth, evidently traveling through tunnels from one subterranean city to another.”Although the following report requires confirmation, it was told to me by an explorer named N.C. who said that he had visited a tunnel near Rio Casdor and had met a beautiful young woman appearing to be about 20 years of age. She spoke to him in Portuguese and SAID that she was 2,500 years old. He also met a bearded subterranean man
(Note: Often humans encountered in aerial disks or subterranean caverns declare that they are extremely old by humans standards. On the surface this might sound next to impossible, unless a revolutionary scientific breakthrough on the part of these human ‘aliens’ has allowed them to retard the ageing process to an extreme degree, or could the possibly that they are separated from the degenerating radiations of solar rays explain their allegedly greater longevity?
Another possibility would be that through bionics/biological transplants/prosthetics, etc. the lifespan of human beings possessing advanced biological and technological sciences might theoretically be increased dramatically. Incidentally, the writer and traveller Robert Stacy-Judd in some of his books described an exploration he and others in his party made of the peripheral areas of the Loltun caves of Yucatan.
Legend says that at least one group of people, fleeing persecution, entered en masse into the massive Loltun caves and were never seen again. Stacy-Judd tells of his own encounter with a ‘cave hermit’ deep in the cavern chambers who claimed to be well over 1000 years old, and who said he was a guardian of the cave and of the treasures–and city?–which lay deep below in the unknown depths, ‘unknown’ that is, except to the strange ‘hermit’.
Aside from photographs of this hermit which appeared in some of his works, the author also revealed photographs of ‘underground gardens’ consisting of areas of the cave which contain small patches of ‘jungle’, watered and lit through parts of the cavern ceilings which had collapsed, exposing them to the outer world. Whether such claims of longevity are real or whether the “subterranean” people were just playing with the minds of such explorers who encountered them, is uncertain – Branton).
“Still another explorer named D.O. visited this same tunnel near Gaspar, Santa Catarina, and behind a wonderful fruit orchard saw a subterranean woman with a child in her arms reading to it aloud from a huge book written in an unknown language… After she read each sentence the child repeated the same and in this way was taught how to read. All of these subterranean cities are illuminated by strange light…'”
In relation to the apparent connection between subterranean civilizations and unidentified flying objects (Bernard and de Souza, incidentally, believed ‘flying saucers’ to be of subterranean origin), we will here quote from Paris Flammonde, author of ‘THE AGE OF FLYING SAUCERS’ (Hawthorne Books, Inc., N.Y.), who tends to confirm this hypothesis. He in turn quoted Raymond A. Palmer as a major proponent of this belief:
“…The new decade was not without a new theory, or, at least, a variation of an old one–that not only were Flying Saucers not originating from beyond the farthest reaches of our planet, they were expelled from within it… Ray Palmer wrote a lengthy article elaborating his interesting and imaginative thesis, and prefaced it with the assertion that he was prepared ‘to prove that flying saucers are native to planet earth; that the governments of more than one nation (if not all of them) know this to be the fact; that a concerted effort is being made to learn all about them, and to explore their native land; and that facts already known are considered so important that they are the world’s top secret.
..’ The continuation of his contention reads:’…is there any area on Earth which can be regarded as a possible origin for flying saucers? There are…four…the two major, in order of importance, are Antarctica and the Arctic…the two minor areas are South America’s Motto Grosso and Asia’s Tibetan Highlands.'”