Raymond Bernard (actual name ‘Walter Seigmeister’), writing in the Oct. 1959 issue of SEARCH Magazine, p. 48, described yet another alleged encounter with a subterranean race. What are we to make of all these stories? Are we to assume that some of the individuals who told Bernard such accounts actually made them up, as some suggest, in order to receive the ‘reward’ Bernard was known to offer on documentable accounts of ancient tunnels? Or, are we to accept these accounts for just what their sources claim them to be, actual encounters with a subterranean world? Bernard stated the following:
“…Last week my investigators returned and said they visited their city (i.e. the ‘city’ of a race of dwarf-humans whom Bernard referred to as the ‘Niebelungs’, who live in a subterranean region with it’s own system of illumination – Branton) and are able to bring any of my American friends to visit it, but I require one condition: absolute secrecy, as I don’t want governments to send armies into the tunnel to disturb these peaceful people.”To reach them requires a 3-day journey of about 40 miles through a tunnel.
This entire distance is through a tunnel carefully lined with cut stone blocks below, above and on the sides. That was quite an engineering feat. I think the tunnel was made long to keep out curiosity seekers, and only the most determined will travel that distance.”Here is the report of my investigations: (They are two ranchers, father and son, who discovered the tunnel accidentally):
“‘We left our house 5 A.M. for the tunnel on top of a mountain and reached it 3 P.M. We were tired and camped near the entrance of the tunnel. For three days we proceeded through the tunnel. We told time by our watches, as we could not tell when it was day or night. We went to sleep at 10 P.M. and awoke at 3 A.M. and continued walking. By the third day the tunnel started to go downward by steps. It was built of stone blocks on all sides. By the night of the third day the tunnel suddenly opened into a great space covered with what appeared as a sky with a yellow light that made everything luminous, like daylight. We saw a city with many houses and saw many people in the distance.
They were dwarfs with long white beards and long hair and we saw women and children, and heard them crying. The third member of our party got frightened so we had to return.'”These men found three such tunnels. They entered another for three days, but after hearing voices further in, got scared and returned. Now they are entering the third…”
In his book ‘THE UNDERPEOPLE’ (1969. Award Books., N.Y.), author Eric Norman relates an interesting account of the possible fate of the Inca Indians. In chapter 2 – ‘Strange Caverns and Terrifying Tunnels’, he relates:
“Conquest in South America was natives hacked to death by Spanish swords, arrogant priests absolving Conquistadors for their murderous atrocities, sharp Toledo steel lances running through children and, pervading it all, a dark lust for native gold.”In the autumn of 1582, Francisco Pizarro hid his 168 Spanish horse soldiers behind the doorways and walls of the Incan town of Cajamarca. Atahualpa, the absolute emperor of the sun-worshipping Inca’s empire, had agreed to meet Pizarro in the village plaza. Atahualpa’s procession entered the village with a flair of pageantry. Incan warriors and the emperor’s litter bearers were dressed in the finest cloth.
The Royal Guard were armed with spiked helmets, feathered war clubs, poison-tipped lances and dazzling gold-inlaid swords. Thick gold bracelets encircled their bronze wrists and rich silver discs dangled from their pierced ear lobes.”Pizarro and his Conquistadors remained hidden behind their guns and cannons as Atahualpa and his entourage entered the main plaza.
‘It is like leading hogs to the killing pen,’ Pizarro sneered. The bandy-legged Spaniard knew hogs; prior to his service for Spain’s king, Pizarro had been a swineherd in the province of Estremadura. He lived by a harsh personal code that equated kindness with weakness; deceit was the trick of a clever man and lying, duplicity and thievery were proper.
“Atahualpa’s group stirred nervously when they found no sign of the visitors to their land. Spanish fingers twitched on gun triggers and a hawk-faced soldier stood ready to torch the cannon. Suddenly, a solitary figure left a building and walked into the plaza. He was dressed in the faded robe of a Dominican friar. His bald head glistened contemptuously toward the Incan emperor.”Friar Vincente Valverde announced that all of South America now belonged to the king of Spain. He stared coldly at the emperor and snapped, ‘The Papal Bull of 1493 provides this right…'”Proud and regal, Atahualpa glared at the haughty friar before him. ‘Your Pope must be crazy to give away land that does not belong to him,’ he said…
“The friar was stunned momentarily, then he turned and ran toward the safety of a building, shouting: ‘Pizarro, attack, attack! Kill all of them! I will absolve you!'”With hoarse cries of ‘Santiago!’, the Spaniards slaughtered the unsuspecting Inca warriors. In a few minutes the battle was over; the emperor’s royal guard was dead, or dying, in the bloodstained dust of the plaza and Atahualpa was a prisoner of Pizarro. Greedy Spanish hands ripped the emerald necklace from his body.
A wild gleam entered Pizarro’s eyes when the emperor handed over his exquisitely carved bracelets of thick gold.”‘I want my freedom,’ Atahualpa informed Pizarro. ‘I will fill this room with gold for ransom.’ The room was 17 feet wide and 22 feet long! The emperor’s subjects delivered $8,443,456 in gold to Pizarro and, afterward, Pizarro and Friar Vincente Valverde condemned Atahualpa to be burned alive at the stake.”While the Spaniards were burning the emperor, a pack train of 11,000 llamas was headed toward the Spanish encampment. Each beast was burdened by a heavy load of gold. Native messengers brought news of the Inca king’s death–and the fantastic caravan disappeared! During the past centuries, thousands of gold-greedy adventurers have searched for the ‘loot of the 11,000 llamas.’ None has discovered a single clue to the treasure’s site.
“Believers in the Under-People theory are firm in their contention that the Incan llamas disappeared into a gigantic tunnel that led to the inner earth kingdoms. ‘Even the population figures show that these conquered people outwitted their bestial conquerors,’ according to one South American researcher. ‘Incan census figures reveal that there was 10,000,000 subjects when the Spaniards arrived. Forty years later, in 1571, the Spaniards took a census. There was approximately 1,000,000 Indians. I admit that the Spanish method of slave labor took a tremendous toll. But could 9,000,000 Incas have died in Spanish mines?'”