the ancient underground

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In his book ''Mysteries of Ancient South America'', Harold T. Wilkins relates the following information, which appears on page 176. ''Fuentes, who lived about A.D. 1689, and wrote an unpublished manuscript history of Guatemala, speaks of the amazingly large and ancient towns, inhabited by an unknown and long vanished race, found there by the conquistadores.

He says: ''The marvelous structure of the tunnels (subterranean) of the pueblo of Puchuta, being of the most firm and solid cement, runs and continues trough the interior of the land for the prolonged distance of nine leagues to the pueblo of Tecpan, Guatemala. It is a proof of the power of these ancient kings and their vassals.''

''He gives no hint of the uses to which these amazing tunnels, more than thirthy miles long, on the basis of the old Castellon league, were built by these ancient races of old America.

''It may be, too, that the great tunnel of the Inca's had a branch, and underground way leading under the forests, eastwards of Cuzco, in the very direction taken by Inca Tupac Amaru, his army and his host of camp-following refugees, in the late sixteen century?

''May be, the fleeing Peruvians vanished into these mysterious tunnels and left only the whispering leaves of the trees of the dense green forests, as mute witnesses to their secret exits?''

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The following letter appeared in the September, 1945 issue of Amazing Stories Magazine, on page 175:

''Sirs: Near the city of Cuzco stands an old Incan fort, Sacsahuaman. In one spot amidst the crumbling stones is a low dark opening leading into the bowels of the Earth. In the year 1850 or '51, seven students of the Cuzco University entered the forbidden dark hole. That was the last that was ever seen of them. The authorities then ordered the entrance walled up...''

--- Miss Eleanore Kramer, Chicago, illinois

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In the old Spanish Garavanza district, where Avenue 64 and York Boulevard now lie, there used to be a ranch owned by Ralph Rodgers who had employed several Mexican and Chinese workers. In early 1900 Andrew C. Smith and Charles A. Elder, discovered a rumored tunnel entrance in the area and reported it to the local newspaper, whose editor confirmed their story. They explored the tunnel to some depth. They also learned from a Mexican elder of a native American village that existed on the banks of the Arroyo Seco River.

When the Spanish entered the area this man, Juan Dominquez, had explored the tunnel ''leading to a gigantic cave and then still going further down; spreading under the entire village of Garavanza and connecting to the Spanish Church of the Angels on North Avenue 64.

One entrance was reportedly located along the west bluff of Arroyo Seco River about 300 feet south of the former Pasadena Ave. Rail Bridge, and about 20 feet above the stream, but the city ''blew up'' the entrance after children were hurt in the cave, and a Freeway now exists in the area, however a secret opening still exists in the basement of the Spanish church mentioned above.

Early visitors to the cave had reported ''many caverns and tunneld going deep down, with eerie voices coming from them.'' The cave used to be used be natives for ritual purposes.

Source: Article by Hank Krastman in The Hollow Hassle Insider, vol. 3, No. 1; The Church of the Angels - Los Angeles

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One interesting legend which 'may' give a clue as to how the Inca race 'originated' into Peru, is recorded on page 42 of Harold Osborne's book ''SOUTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY''. The legend/tradition is as follows:

''The first version tells of a cliff with three small cave mouths, or a building with three exits, about twenty miles from the present city of Cuzco. It was called Paccari-Tambo (Inn of origin) or Tambotocco (place of the hole).

In Prehistoric times four brothers and four sisters, who were to be the founders of the Inca dynasty, emerged from the middle exit. Their names and numbers are differently given. According to some versions the ancestors of other non-royal Inca clans emerged from the other two exits.''

Later on in this book, there is a particular legend which states that after the ancestors of the Incas emerged from the caves, they passed trough two areas known as ''Apitay'' and ''Huana Cauri'' while on their way to the present city of Cuzco, which many believe to be the 'birthplace' of the Inca civilization.

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Worldatlas from 1569 showing the Polar opening

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CUSHMAN - Caverns west and north-west of the town are legendary for stories of deep cavern systems, encounters with hairy humanoids with an attitude, giant serpents and insects, deadly gas pockets, strange electro-magnetic phenomena and unexplained disappearances. One of these is "Blowing Cave" which lies in the mining area NW of Cushman and is located 1/4 mile north of a road leading west from Cushman, one of several caverns in the area, some of them connecting at the deeper levels. Between the large entrance and an underground lake far back in the cave is a trail that winds through an area of rubble or "breakdown". The trail is intersected by a crack in the earth between the entrance and the lake] that, if followed into the breakdown, widens enough to enter. This chasm is reportedly an entrance to the endless networks of the 'alien' underworld. source: Charles Marcoux - - George Wight - D. A. Lopez; TRIP TO A CUSHMAN CAVERN

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ANAHEIM - On Nov. 3, 1989, radio talk show host Ken Hudnell announced his intention to take a group to visit an ancient underground city 60 miles from Anaheim. source: THE LEADING EDGE; KEN HUDNELL

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Strange sightings in the area where Shambhala is thought to be seem to provide evidence of its existence. Tibetans believe that the land is guarded by beings with superhuman powers. In the early 1900s an article in an Indian newspaper, the Statesman, told of a British major who, camping in the Himalayas, saw a very tall, lightly clad man with long hair. Apparently, noticing that he was being watched, the man leaped down the vertical slope and disappeared. To the majors astonishment, the Tibetans with whom he was camping showed no surprise at his story; they calmly explained that he had seen one of the snowmen who guard the sacred land.

A more detailed account of these "snowmen" guardians was given by Alexandra David-Neel, an explorer who spent 14 years in Tibet. While traveling through the Himalayas she saw a man moving with extraordinary speed and described him as follows: "I could clearly see his perfectly calm impassive face and wide-open eyes with their gaze fixed on some invisible distant object situated somewhere high up in space. The man did not run. He seemed to life himself from the ground, proceeding by leaps. It looked as if he had been endowed with the elasticity of a ball, and rebounded each time his feet touched the ground. His steps had the regularity of a pendulum."

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Many Polar explorers not only mention animals, but also flora vegetation in the extreme North. Also many animals, like the musk-ox, strangely migrate northward in winter, which it would do only if it reached a warmer land there. Repeatedly, Arctic explorers have observed bears heading northward into an area where there cannot be food for them if there was no polar opening into a warmer region. Foxes also were found north of the 80th parallel heading north, obviously well fed. Without exception, Arctic explorers agree that, strangely, the further north one goes, after a certain latitude, the warmer it gets. Invariably, a north wind brings warmer weather. Coniferous trees were found drifting ashore, coming from the far north. Butterflies and bees were found in the far north, and even mosquitoes, but they are not found hundreds of miles to the south and not until Canadian and Alaskan climate areas conducive to such insect life are reached.

Unknown varieties of flowers were also found in the extreme north. Birds resembling snipe, but unlike any known species of bird, were seen to come from the north, and to return there. Hare are plentiful in a far northern area where no vegetation grows but where vegetable matter is found in drifting debris from the more northern open waters. Eskimo tribes have left unmistakable traces of their migration by their temporary camps, always advancing northward Southern Eskimos speak of tribes that live in the far north. They hold the belief that their ancestors came from a land of paradise in the extreme north. Many explorers and scientists, found identical fauna and flora in New Zealand and lower South America. Some of these animals and plants could not have migrated from one of these places to the other. The only explanation-is that they came from a common motherland – the Antarctic continent?

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The Hidden Kingdom of Shambalah



Of all the regions of Central Asia, the Tarim Basin southwest of Turpan - comes closest in size and shape to Tibetan descriptions of Shambhala. A huge oval-shaped area enclosed by the Kunlun, Pamir, and Tien Shan ranges, it could be viewed as an enormous lotus blossom surrounded by a ring of snow mountains. The small kingdoms that have existed side by side in the numerous oases sprinkled around the fringes of the basin may well have provided the model for the ninety-six principalities of the outer region of Shambhala. Until shortly before the Kalachakra reached India and Tibet, Buddhism had been flourishing in the Tarim Basin for nearly eight hundred years. During part of that time, caravans following the silk route to China had brought the outside influences of Manicheism and Nestorian Christianity to bear on the development of Buddhist art thought in the area.

Shambhala may have corresponded historically to the Tarim Basin as a whole or to one the major oases such as Yarkand, Kashgar, or Khotan. Some scholars have singled out Khotan the largest and most fertile oasis on the southern rim of the basin. Watered by melting snows of the Kunlun Mountains, it supported a thriving center of Buddhist learning, a people who loved music and culture, and a school of painting that impressed the Chinese and influenced Tibetan art. According to an old Khotanese tradition, an Indian prince of the third century B.C., who was blinded by rivals, fled his homeland to cross the intervening mountains and found a local dynasty in Khotan. Archeological finds show that Indians did, in fact, colonize the oasis around that time. According to a Tibetan legend about the founding of Shambhala, a member of Buddha's clan, called Shakya Shambha, was forced by enemies to flee north from India. After crossing many mountains, he came to a land that the conquered and that later became known after him as "Shambhala." Because of its similarity, the Tibetan legend may have come from the Khotanese tradition, suggesting a possible link between the hidden kingdom and Khotan.

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John Goodwin's book, ''Occult America'', carried the following statements on page 167:

''Miliko S. Stevic, a Yugoslav born engineer currently (at the time of his writing...) lecturing on the United States Para-psychological circuit, advances an even more startling theory. He holds that there are entire subterranean towns situated beneath such large surface centers as Tokyo, Leningrad, Buenos Aires, Soa Paulo and New York. ''These underground cities are connected with each other by a system of tunnels.''

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Hole at the North Pole - This picture was taken by Apollo XI, in July, 1969

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On this picture the entrance of Bone Cave is behind the small human figure a little to the left of the centre. In the foreground is the Weld River. The vegetation around Bone Cave entrance gives a good idea of the density of the Tasmanian forest - and how difficult it is to find new caves.

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Startling letter from Captain Symmes to Dr. Michill -AD 1818

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In northern Arkansas, a 12-man speleological team broke into an ancient tunnel system, encountering inhabitants of the inner-world. Just north of Batesville, explorers found a tunnel illuminated by a greenish phosphorescence where they met a race of beings who stood 7 to 8 feet tall and had bluish skin. The beings, who have advanced technology, told the explorers they are the direct descendents of Noah. The Cherokee Indians also tell of this same race of blue men. According to the Cherokee they inhabited the areas of Kentucky as well. When the Cherokee came into that area, they killed these blue skinned men off. Apparently the Cherokee were wrong in their assumptions. Southwestern California holds the legend of Crystal Cave, a large cavern that links to Kokoweek Peak. It was reportedly found by Earl Dorr, a miner and prospector who followed clues given to him by Indians. Dorr entered Crystal Cave in the thirties and followed a passage down into Kokoweef Mountain for about a mile. Here he entered a large cavern that he explored for a distance of eight miles. Flowing at the base of the cavern was a river and its banks were rich with deposits of gold. For reasons only known to Dorr, he dynamited the entrance. The exact location of this sealed entrance is unknown today.