Inca, The (pseud.) – I FOUND SHAVER’S CAVES! Article in SEARCH magazine, March 1960., pp. 26-29: The writer’s discovery of an entrance to the subterranean world in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil, and his meetings with a subterranean man of “Atlantean-Inca” descent, who invited him, along with his family and friends, to come and live with his people in the utopian underground cities.

INFO JOURNAL (The “International Fortean Organization”

Ives, Franklin Titus– THE HOLLOW EARTH., Broadway Publishing Co., New York, 1904.

Jamison, Prof. William – HOLLOW WORLDS., Prof. Jamison was a former geology professor at the University of California. (Also see: Borino, Bob)

Jennings, Hargrave – THE ROSICRUCIANS; THEIR RITES AND MYSTERIES., John C. Nimmo Co., London., 1887. Chapt. 2 – SINGULAR ADVENTURE IN STAFFORDSHIRE: An English laborer discovers an underground stairway leading down to enormous caverns beneath Staffordshire, England. (Also see: Calais, Ronald A.)

Jessup, M.K. – SACSAYHUAMAN: MYSTERY CITY OF THE ANDES., Article in FATE magazine., March 1956., pp. 48-52: Refers to a network of ancient tunnels under the Inca fort of ‘Sacsayhuaman‘, some of which allegedly span hundreds of miles throughout the Andes region, and connect the fort with other similar tunnels under the city of Cuzco. Also reports of an exposed cross-section of a tunnel one-third mile north of Sacsayhuaman, 20 inches wide by 3 ½ ft. high, and miniature steps, which some belief could have been built by a highly skilled race of pre-Incan dwarves.

Johannes, L.W., Ed. – S.M.R.S., a ‘Shaver Mystery‘ journal. Three issues published through 1968-1969.

John, Edward – Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., May, 1946., pp. 171-173: Report of a “bottomless cave” with a stone staircase leading down into its bowels, and also strange cars sighted by the author near his home, which he occasionally observed entering and leaving a vertical cliff or rock outcropping between Hopland and Lakeport in Mendocino county, California., leading the writer to believe that a subterranean city lies beneath the area.

Johnston, Gilbert K. – Letter in SEARCH  magazine., June 1959., pp. 98-100: Refers to the writings of Gerald Light, G.W. Ballard, Ferdinand Ossendowski, C.W. Leadbeater, Madame Blavatsky, and Gurdjieff… all of whom believed in the existence of tunnels and inhabited subterranean realms beneath the earth.

Jones, Paget – IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ORPHEUS., Article in NEWSWEEK magazine, Nov. 1964. The cavernous entrance to “Hades” is mentioned in a brief review of this legend of an explorer named Orpheus who, according to Greek legend, descended into the caverns of Hades and returned.

Jorden, Jay – CAVE EXPLORERS FIGHT NATURE IN JOURNEY TOWARD CENTER OF EARTH., Article in THE GAZETTE TELEGRAPH., Feb. 14, 1982. Attempts by cave explorers to reach a new (1982) world’s depth record in one of Mexico’s largest known cavern systems. The explorer’s efforts are hampered by interference from superstitious natives.

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE

— Vol. 52, pp. 242-249: Several Indian traditions and beliefs in subterranean worlds, including a belief of the Caraja of Brazil that  some of their ancestors emerged from a subterranean world where there was “neither sickness nor death.”

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Kafton-Minkel, Walter
— SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS., unpublished manuscript., Portland, OR: A historical review of several ‘Hollow Earth‘ theories, including information on the early proponents of the theory.
— THE LEGENDS OF MT. SHASTA.,  Article in ‘HOLLOW EARTH NEWS’, Vol. 1, No. 1., Oct. 1981., Hollow Earth Society of Kentucky (Also see: HOLLOW EARTH NEWS); adapted from a chapter in SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS (see above).

Kapierlian, Maude – LOCH NESS SERPENTS., Letter in FATE magazine, Sept. 1958, pp. 11-12: The belief in a deep aquatic cavern connecting Loch Ness in Scotland with the sea.

Kaye, Marx – Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine, June 1947, pp. 168-171: Hidden caverns and Inca tunnels in Peru.

Keel, John A. – THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES., Saturday Review Press., Dutton, 1975, pp. 170-171: An engineer named Rex Ball of Georgia, in 1940 stumbles into a vast underground complex occupied by ‘Oriental looking men‘ wearing coveralls and accompanied by American military officers. (Also see: Chase, Frank Martin)

Keightley, Thomas
— THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY., H.G. Bohn., London 1850; reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corp., 1969: Several accounts of encounters with fairies throughout the world. Pp. 281-283: An account recorded by Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newbridge of two green-skinned children who emerged from a cavern, disoriented, in some ‘pits‘ about 5 miles from Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk, England, and who – once they lived on the surface for a time and learned the English language – claimed to have come from an underground country called “St. Martin’s Land“, apparently named after a “Christian” saint who discovered this underground land in much earlier times. (Also see: Drake,  W.R.)
— THE WORLD GUIDE TO GNOMES, FAIRIES, ELVES AND OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE., 1888; reprinted in 1978 by Avenel Co., NY: Accounts of little people who inhabit caves, hollow mountains, and other underground areas.

Kenton, Edna – THE BOOK OF EARTHS., Circa 1928., 262 pp. illus., Chapter: EARTH A HOLLOW SPHERE.

King, Godfre Ray (Pseud.) – See Ballard, Guy.

Kirk, G.S. 
— MEANING AND FUNCTION., p. 138: The Mesopotamian tradition of a man who, after traveling twelve leagues through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of “Mashu“, emerged into the brilliant light of a  jeweled subterranean garden. This story is recorded in ancient Mediterranean records
— THE  SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS AND FAIRIES: A STUDY IN FOLKLORE & PSYCHICAL RESEARCH., 1691., Republished by Rowan & Littlefield (Publishers for the FOLKLORE SOCIETY – Mistletoe series)., Totowa, NJ; Also published by D.S. Brewer, Ltd., Cambridge, England: A treatise on the diminutive subterranean inhabitants of earth’s interior.

Klein, David – AMATEUR  EXPLORER DISCOVERS VAST CAVERN SYSTEM CONTAINING UNDERGROUND RIVER WITH GOLD., Article in THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER., Feb. 4, 1973., pp. 16-17; Discovery of a strange cavern system located about 300 miles NW of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in which large amounts of gold-bearing sand, huge unidentifiable footprints (subterranean  Sasquatch?), white frogs and perfectly round polished stones, were found. These findings, according to the article, were immediately suppressed by the Government soon after the discoverers reported it to officials. (See also: Gesner, Charles H.)

Klein, John – Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., Sept. 1945, pp. 167-168: The writer’s ‘dreams‘ or ‘racial memories‘ of an underground ‘city‘ beneath the surface of an ancient Pacific ‘continent‘ called Lemuria (which according to legend sank in similar fashion as Atlantis, some of the residents known as the Naga-Mayas allegedly taking refuge within large caverns inside Mt. Shasta, California). Mr. Klein also describes his dreams/visions of a race of 12 ft. tall human giants who supposedly lived in and utilized these caverns beneath this now-sunken continent.

Kolosimo, Peter — NOT OF THIS WORLD., Bantam Books, NY: A strange, ancient system of tunnels discovered under the Mongolian lamasery of Tuerin. (Also mentioned in THE NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL., Fall, 1980, p. 31)
— TIMELESS EARTH., Garnestone Press., London 1973: Inner Earth material, including a report about a “bottomless well” in Azerbaijan, Russia., which Russian scientist had found to connect with other similar tunnel systems in Georgia and “all over the Caucasus“.

Koresh (Pseud.) – See: Teed, Cyrus R.

Kramer, Eleanore – Letter in AMAZING STORIES magazine., Sept. 1945., p. 175: The disappearance of seven students from the University of Cuzco (Peru) after they entered a dark opening leading into the bowels of the earth, which they had discovered amidst the remains of the Incan fort Sacsayhuaman… the entrance to this tunnel was later sealed off by the Peruvian government.

Kuiper, G.S. – Article in POPULAR ASTRONOMY., 1946 (specific issue uncertain): Inner-earth related information.

Executive Summary

Section I – K serves as a tactical dossier on subterranean humanoids, secret government continuity infrastructure, and the physics of the “Central Sun.”

Key Analytical Pillars:

• The Smoky God Inhabitants: Documentation of the Olaf Jansen voyage, describing a race of giants living under a luminescent “internal sun” that never sets.

• The Iron Mountain Protocol: Analysis of the Report from Iron Mountain and its implications for secret underground government cities designed for permanent habitation.

• Incan Subterranean Networks: Research into the Chinkana tunnel systems in Peru and Bolivia, which were allegedly sealed by the Spanish to hide the escape routes of the Incan royalty.

• The Internal Atmosphere: Scientific theories regarding the nitrogen-heavy and luminescent air within the hollow globe, allowing for massive biological growth.

• The King Solomon Connection: Biblical and historical analysis of the Copper Mines that lead into unexplored subterranean voids containing ancient artifacts.

• The Kentucky Anomalies: Reports of strange “booming” sounds and artificial shafts discovered in the Mammoth Cave system that defy geological explanation.

“They were a race of giants, most of them being twelve feet or more in height… the sun in the center of the earth was always visible.”