Cave and Tunnel Entrances (21–30) exposes the ancient “Super-Highways” of the underworld, from the cement-lined corridors of Guatemala to the restricted “black-book” levels of the Grand Canyon. This section of the Branton Files delves into the Matto Grosso Plateau of Brazil, a primary hub where ancient Atlantean technology reportedly intersects with post-WWII secret societies and high-tech “Nordic” civilizations. By documenting the presence of phosphorescent green lighting and magnetic propulsion boats, Entries 21–30 provide a technical roadmap to the infrastructure that allows a “Secret Government” to operate entirely independent of the surface world’s laws.
For investigators of the Shaver Mystery and Ancient Astronaut theory, this installment provides chilling modern context to legendary sites. It maps the transition of Mount Lassen from a volcanic landmark to a suspected “Dero” base, where advanced electronic harassment and “memory-erasing rays” are used to guard the gates of the inner world. From the Egyptian-Oriental artifacts of the Grand Canyon’s hidden city to the “vanished kings” of the Incan branch-tunnels, Part 3 of the index proves that the “Conspiracy Against Reality” is anchored in a physical, global network of reinforced caverns and high-speed transit tubes.
Cave and Tunnel Entrances of the America’s 21 – 30
#21 — The two following accounts are taken from an article by Vincent H. Gaddis, titled “NOTES ON SUBTERRANEAN SHAFTS”, which appeared on pages 150-151 of the June 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES magazine:
“…Rising above the Pacific near Acapulco, Mexico, is a sheer rocky cliff, protected from the sea by jagged boulders that make a landing possible only by native canoe. In the face of this cliff is an (almost inaccessible) artificial tunnel, regarded with superstitious dread by the natives. Known as the ‘Cave of the Pirates,’ it was obviously made by a prehistoric, patient race, and since there are no safe anchorage spots nearby it is doubtful that pirates ever used it.
“It has never been fully explored, and it apparently goes back into the earth for an incredible distance. The walls are remarkably smooth and decorated with un-translated inscriptions and figures. Long-delayed echoes reveal its astonishing depth.
“It has been known to the Indians for some years, but they avoid it and tell of strange lights that they have observed near its mouth. Although access to it is difficult, this man-made, vast and unexplored ancient tunnel deserves investigation. Why it was constructed in such a treacherous spot on a barren cliff is itself a mystery.
#22 — (From the same article…)
“…On the road from Mexico City to Laredo, down the Montezuma river valley, is the Indian town of Tamazunchale. Twenty-five miles from this town, on a rough side road, is Xilitla, where the ruins of an old Spanish monastery lie surrounded by a wall of masonry. On one side this wall is built against the side of a cliff.
“Some years ago an earthquake shook the village and part of the ancient wall collapsed, revealing a tunnel cut into the cliff.
“The sides of the tunnel bore mysterious inscriptions and figures of birds, snakes and curious unknown animals. The local Indians (natives) kept away from the passage, but one day two Americans who were passing through the village decided to explore it.
“Hours later they emerged greatly excited and left the town, stating that they would return. But they never came back. No one knows who these Americans were or what they found.
“The padres, for reasons known only to themselves, sealed the tunnel again by rebuilding the wall. In more recent years they have absolutely refused to permit exploration, although they state that they have no knowledge of what lies within -– which is probably true. Only time will reveal the answer.”
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#23 — Pages 46-49 of the Aug. 1958 issue of “SEARCH” magazine carried the following article by Jim Wentworth, titled – “THE MARGARET ROGERS STORY”:
“…Few students of the ‘Shaver Mystery’ would find the story of Margaret Rogers uninteresting. For it was she who wrote a booklet in 1947 called ‘BEGINNING’ – which told, in seventy-seven pages, of her personal experiences in the ancient underground caverns that Richard Shaver claims exist to this day, for the most part in secret.
“Margaret was also responsible for the true story ‘I Have Been In The Caves’ which appeared in the January 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES.
“Her story began on January 8, 1930, when she was thirty-nine years old. As an American drug addict, unemployed, living in Mexico City in misery and despair, she prayed to be freed of her enslavement.
“On this day, a sympathetic and kindly friend, Doc Kelmer of the Electro Therapy Institute, took her in hand.
“As he had on other occasions, he gave her some money for food, clothing, hotel, etc. Later the following night, he met her, and in his car drove her past the city limits on the road leading to Cuernavaca.
“When Margaret became violently sick, he gave her a small vial to drink. She did so, falling asleep immediately.
“Still later, upon awakening in a motionless car, she found herself in mountainous country lit by a brightly shining moon. The car was close to a mass of greenery that grew at the foot of a tall cliff.
“Margaret thought the spot was near Ixtaccihuatl.
“Doc Kelmer stood quietly touching the foliage. Once more Margaret was overcome by nausea. After the (nausea) attack, Doc came to her side, talked briefly, and returned to the foliage. With upraised arms, he wailed (rather than spoke) a few words. Then a startling thing happened. The whole mass of greenery slid to one side, revealing a large opening. Margaret followed the middle-aged man inside, oddly unafraid.
“The opening closed, and a queer bluish light filled the cave. Events moved swiftly then. But to Margaret, it was all so vague. As though ordered, she made for a large block of black marble beside one of the cave’s walls and lay down upon it.
Related: Cave and Tunnel Entrances of the Americas #34
“She felt herself float above cool, green waters, watching strangely-colored denizens at play, unable to descend for quite some time. She finally submerged beneath the water. The sensation of drowning was never felt. Then — utter oblivion. Once or twice, as in a dream, she saw that she was in a vast room, lying on a table of some sort. Many giant figures surrounded her. Under a soft, lavender light, Margaret felt heavenly relief from the pains she had known for so long.
“Again came the feeling of floating. And, again, came the hazy realization that she lay unclothed on a table with one of the giants bending over her. When fully awake, Margaret thought for a moment that death had truly claimed her. In wonder, as she lay in a fur-covered bed fifteen feet long and nine feet wide, she looked about the room in which she was present, a spacious room with appropriately huge furniture where everything was seemingly made of silvery metal.
“Now free of pain, feeling clean (and weak), Margaret was given a jolt when she received a visitor in the person of a strangely attired female giant, strikingly beautiful.
“Given food, and told the date — January 15, 1930 — as well as the fact that she had for days been taking the ‘cure,’ Margaret learned that she had not dreamed of the giant figures about her when she had arrived in the caverns. For later she met those very same giants (or surgeons, to give them their proper name) who had cured her of the drug habit and its ruinous results on her system.
“Margaret Rogers saw many amazing things; learned much; met many of the cavern people who were all very kind to her. She noticed many articles of surface manufacture; examined wondrous machines of the underworld; saw evidence of how a badly hurt surface man, with one eye blinded for fifteen years, was made completely well again in two hours by the miraculous science of the wise people below (This man had accidentally fallen down a shaft while exploring the ‘Cave De Los Vientos’ [‘Cave of the Winds’], where he was found unconscious by the subterranean inhabitants).
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“Reduced to our size scientifically, Margaret was told that many cavern people live on the surface in large numbers, being scientists, doctors, lawyers, judges, even higher in the government.
“Days passed…
“Babies were seen as big as ten-year-old surface children. Cavern children at that age were noted to be Margaret’s height of five-feet-five. The method of locomotion in the underworld was a vehicle that was wheel-less and without motors, torpedo-shaped and two-seated. In what manner were they propelled over the perfectly smooth roads? Simply by — thought!
About 2,000 miles was covered in less than two hours on one occasion.
“She learned further that the caverns are visited by Venusians in space ships, for the people below (who by the way call themselves the ‘Nephli’) have colonies all over the universe.
“All the stars and planets as large as Earth, or larger, have life in humanoid form. None of this four-legged, green-colored intelligence so popular in science fiction. Animals, on the other hand, are more varied.
“…More time passed for Margaret Rogers. For her, it was a happy period. Horror and fear never once marred the scene.
“I might mention here the fact that certain underworld territory was forbidden. Margaret never had the reason explained to her.
“Before leaving for her return to the surface, she was told she would come back to the caverns in twenty years.
“Now, let us check back to the September 1946 issue of AMAZING STORIES where a letter was printed by a Mrs. D.C. Rogers of 117 Devine Street, San Antonio 3., Texas -– evidently the same Margaret Rogers who wrote the booklet BEGINNING.
“Here, in the letter, she touches briefly on her experiences in the immense caves of the underworld. A few important facts are mentioned.
Margaret Rogers ‘disappeared strangely and appeared just as strangely after three years.’ (Having entered the caves in January of 1930, she, therefore, departed sometime in 1933).
‘I was born here'(in the U.S.A.) ‘but had lived in Mexico City since I was ten years old.’
‘I shall go back (to the underworld) when I am sixty years of age, three years from now.’ (Figuring it out, by her own admission, Margaret was thirty-nine in the year 1930 when first she found herself in the caves.) With her published letter in AMAZING STORIES in 1946, she should have been fifty-five. 1951, then, would have been the year of her second disappearance below. For then she would be sixty.
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“Since I have known the story of Margaret Rogers for more than ten years, I have often wondered about her. Did she vanish in 1951 as she had prophesied? I never did find the answer.”
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#24 — The following two ‘origin’ stories/legends can be found on page 95 of “THE PROBLEM OF ATLANTIS”, by Lewis Spence:
“…More important are the flood legends of the Indians of South America. The Antis Indians of the Bolivian Alps, north-western Brazil, the Ipurimas, Yurukares, etc., say that the world was overtaken by a great flood and men were imprisoned by this deluge in a large cave. Fiery cataclysms followed, and (much of) humanity perished.
“…The Arawaks of Gutana had a myth to the effect that Aimon Kondi, the Great Spirit, scourged the world with fire, from which the survivors sought refuge in underground caverns. A great flood followed, in which Marerewana and his followers saved themselves in a canoe.”
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#25 — The following Taino myth was recorded on the island of Haiti, or Hispaniola, by Fray Ramon Pane, a poor anchorite of the order of St. Jerome, at the bidding of Columbus, who ordered him to set down all their language and antiquities, because of his familiarity with their language. (From – “LATIN AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY”, by Hartley Burr Alexander., pp. 28-29):
“The earliest Indians appeared, according to the legend, from two caverns of a certain mountain of Hispaniola — ‘moat of the people that first inhabited the island came out of Cacibagiagua,’ while the others emerged from Amaiauva (it is altogether likely that the two caves represent two races or tribal stocks).
“Before the people came forth, a watchman, Marocael, guarded the entrances by night; but, once delaying his return into the caves until after dawn, the sun transformed him into a stone;
while others, going a-fishing, were also caught by the sun and were changed into trees.
As for the sun and moon, they, too, came from a certain grotto, called Giovava, to which, says Fray Ramon, the Indians paid great veneration, having it all painted ‘without any figure, but with leaves and the like’; and keeping in it two stone ‘zemis’ which looked ‘as if they sweated’; to these, they went when they wanted rain.”
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#26 — Thy following information can be found on page 123 of Ellen Russell Emerson’s book. “INDIAN MYTHS”:
“…It is to the Cubans we are indebted for the following version of man’s origin:
“It was from the depths of a deep cavern in the earth that mankind issued. There were two apertures to this cavern, one large and the other small: out of the large aperture passed the men who are of tall, majestic proportions; and from the small issued the men of diminutive size…”
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#27 — The following interesting information concerning the Aztecs can be found on pages 91-93 of “AMERICAN HERO-MYTHS”, by Daniel G. Brinton:
“All through Mexico and Central America this legend of the Seven Sons, Seven Tribes, and Seven Caves whence they issued, or the Seven Cities where they dwelt, constantly crops out. To that land the Aztecs referred as their former dwelling place. It was located at some indefinite distance to the north or northwest — in the same direction as Tollan. The name of that land was significant. It was called the White or Bright land, Aztlan.
“In its midst was situated the mountain or hill Colhuacan the Divine, Teoculhuacan. In the base of this hill were the Seven Caverns, Chicomoztoc, whence the seven tribes with their respective gods had issued… those gods including Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and the Tezeatlipocas. There continued to live their mother, awaiting their return.
“The lord of this land and the father of the seven sons are variously and indistinctly named.
One legend calls him the White Serpent of the Clouds, or the White Cloud Twin, Iztac Mixcoatl. Whoever he was we can hardly mistake the mountain in which or upon which he dwelt. Colhuacan means the ‘bent or curved mountain’. It is none other than the Hill of Heaven, curving down on all sides to the horizon; upon it in all times have dwelt the gods, and from it, they have come to aid the men they favor.
“Absolutely the same name was applied by the Choctaws to the mythical hill from which they say their ancestors first emerged into the light of day. They call it Nane Waiyah, ‘the Bent or Curved Hill’. Such an identity of metaphorical expression leaves little room for discussion.”
“For this reason Quetzalcoatl’s statue, or one of them, was in a reclining position and covered with wrappings, signifying that he was absent, ‘as of one who lays him down to sleep and that when he should awake from that dream of absence, he should rise to rule again the land.’
“He was not dead. He had indeed built mansions underground, to the Lord of Mictlan, the abode of the dead, the place of darkness, but he himself did not occupy them. Where he passed his time was where the sun stays at night. As this, too, is somewhere beneath the level of the earth, it was occasionally spoken of as Tlillapa, ‘The Murky Land’, and allied therefore to Mictlan.
“Caverns led down to it, especially one south of Chapultepec, called Cincalco, ‘To the Abode of Abundance,’ through whose gloomy corridors one could reach the habitation of the sun and the happy land still governed by Quetzalcoatl and his lieutenant Totec.
“But the real and proper names for that land were Tlapallan, ‘the Red Land’, and Tizapan, ‘the White Land’, for either of these colors is that of the sunlight. It was generally understood to be the same land whence he and the Toltec’s had come forth in ancient times; or if not actually the same, nevertheless very similar to it’… ”
Pages 206-207 of Franklin Folsom’s book, “EXPLORING AMERICAN CAVES“, carries the following related information:
“It is interesting to speculate that archeologists, working in caves of the United States or northern Mexico, may one day complete a chapter in the history of the Aztecs. These Amazing people, who ruled much of Mexico in Columbus’ day, believed that the ancient and original home of their tribe was in seven caves.. far to the north.
“There is ample evidence that Aztecs did, in fact, move southward into the high valley of Mexico. It would be an Indian feather in some speleologist’s cap if he could solve the mystery of the longitude and latitude of caverns that the Aztecs did use in their migrations southward. Archeologists may rise up in careful academic wrath and say that no such find can ever be made, but scholars were not impressed when Heinrich Schliemann set out to find the city of Troy with not much more than Homer to go by. Amazing things have turned up in American caves…”
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#28 — The following story was reported by John J. Robinson, a popular investigator of UFOs and other phenomena. It appeared on pages 6-8 of Tim Beckley’s book, “THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD”:
“After the conquest of South America by the Spanish Conquistadores, the Catholic priests who were attempting to convert the heathen Indians (to Romanism) discovered a cave entrance to what they called ‘Hell’. This entrance has since been sealed off with tons of rubble, dirt and huge stones and boulders.
“The village of Liyobaa (or to translate it, ‘The Cavern of Death’) was located in the province of Zapoteca (the ‘Zapotec’ natives lived in the state of ‘Oaxaca’, Mexico – Branton) somewhere near the ancient village of Mictlan (probably referring to ‘Mitla’ in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, which is an ancient city containing Zapotec ruins – Branton), or the ‘Village of the Underworld’.
“The Cavern of Death was actually located in the last chamber of an eight-chamber building or temple. This temple had four rooms above the ground and four more important chambers built below the surface.
“The high priests of the then prevailing Indian religion conducted the ordinary ceremonies for the common man of Theozapotlan in the upper rooms. It was when they descended into the subsurface chambers that the secret and, to them, holy ceremonies, were conducted.
“The first underground room was the one which was reserved for any human sacrifice. Its walls were lined with the images of the representations of their various ‘gods‘. A blood-stained stone altar in the center of the chamber served for the sacrifice of any human victim, whose still-beating heart would be torn from a screaming still-living body and offered to the lips of those same stone idols for their supposed repletion. There was a second door in this first chamber which led to the second room. This was a crypt where the preserved bodies of all the deceased high priests reposed.
“The next door in this crypt led to the third underground vault, about the walls of which were the preserved bodies of all the former ‘Kings‘ of Theozapotlan. For, on the death of a king, his body is brought to this chamber and installed there with all the state and glory, as well as with many sacrifices to accompany him.
“It was from this burial chamber of kings that the fourth and last underground room was accessible. A doorway in this third room led into the last underground chamber which seems appropriate to have contained nothing but another entrance covered by a huge stone slab. I write ‘appropriately‘, for the entrance to either HELL or the CAVES should be covered but unencumbered in the area about it for the benefit of those who might wish to leave rapidly and wisely.
“It was considered by the Catholic Fathers of that day that this was an entrance to Hades; however, as we may well understand, it was an entrance to a Dero larder.
“Through this doorway behind the stone slab were placed the bodies of all human sacrifices as well as the bodies of all great lords and chieftains of the land who fell in battle. The bodies of these warriors were brought from far and wide to be thrown into this cave when they had been cut down in battles that were constantly being waged by these people.
“Many of the common people, when debilitated by an incurable illness or oppressed by an unsupportable hardship, which made them seek death, would prevail upon the high priests to allow them to enter the door of death while still living. They believed that if they did so they would be the recipients of a very special afterlife.
“The high priests would sometimes accept them as living sacrifices and after special ceremonies allow them to enter the ‘Cavern of Death’ while still living. Needless to say, none ever returned to describe their experiences. The Catholic priests, in order to convert the believers of this ‘myth’ to ‘Christianity’, made arrangements to enter the subterranean door with a large retinue of torch holders and a long rope, which was tied to the stone slab door. They also took the precaution of having a large armed guard make sure that the door was not closed on them.
“After they had lighted their torches and entered the door, it was discovered that they would have to descend several very large steps. At the foot of the steps was a very wide stone-paved passageway with a high stone buttress on either side. The passageway led directly away from the steps into the distant bowels of the earth. The bones of the most recent arrivals picked clean, lay before them as the passage seemed to continue without end.
“On each side of the buttressed path, they could see into a large open area which was a labyrinth of huge stone pillars that seemed to hold up the very mountain which they knew they were beneath.
“As they advanced into the mountain, a putrid, dank air assailed their nostrils, serpents retreated from the light of their torches, and at times they seemed to see distorted figures retreat from the light behind the shadows of the pillars in the distance.
“They continued into the depths a distance of about 40 meters when suddenly a strong cold wind began to blow about them. Still striving to continue, as their torches were extinguished rapidly, they took flight when all became dark, not only from the danger of the serpents, but also from strange sounds they could not place, but which were being made by the members of their own party.
“Using the rope and the light of the torch one of the guards held in the doorway, out of the strong wind, the entire party rapidly retreated from this terrifying region.
“When all the company had swiftly retreated to the ante-chamber of ‘Hell’, they rapidly replaced the large stone slab door. After this the head prelate gave orders to fill in all the underground chambers and seal off and erase all signs of the stairs to them, thus eradicating for all tine this entrance to the Caves.”
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The following are passages from various sources that give information on Inner-Earth related mysteries. They may specify the general, although not the exact, locations of the entrances to the caverns:
In July of 1980, I received a letter from a friend of mine, Ed Berg, of Liberty, KY., who claims to be in contact with a race of ‘extraterrestrials’ who gave him the information which I quote from his letter below:
“…According to my friends in space, some bases have been established, some underground and some above ground. There are many types of aliens, many different kinds. Some believe in God, some could care less – just like humans. Did you know the space people also have souls and know a considerable amount about the spirit world? But this is getting off the subject.
“As to the subterranean cities, they do exist… The cities were constructed by a race (or races?) who inhabit them now. This race is very highly advanced and very peaceful. According to my information, this race went underground when the people of Atlantis and the rest of the world started turning negative…
“This race has created materials harder than diamonds…”
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Issue No. 843 of the newsletter for the HOLLOW EARTH SOCIETY (GPO Box 563., Sydney 2001, Australia) reported the following about a disappearance in an Australian cavern network:
“Dear Members,
“The upper council has instructed me to inform you that, with great sadness, we announce the loss of a third independent expedition by two of our cherished members to the Central Australian Nullarbor cave region which the Society believes holds an entry point to the inner earth continents.
“An investigation was confidentially made. No trace of the party or their equipment, however, was found. We have omitted the names of the members until we can evaluate whether their mission was successful.
“A second expedition will be launched in March of this year with the full back-up of the H.E.S. We have arranged the purchase of sophisticated electronic equipment from the Sony corporation which will keep the council abreast of all details…”
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The third set of entries confirms that the deep earth is not a tomb of the past, but a laboratory for the future:
“The tunnels of the Incas were not built for retreat, but for reach. When we find cement-lined corridors stretching 30 miles beneath the jungle, we aren’t looking at primitive shelters—we are looking at the ‘fiber-optics’ of a civilization that never truly left, but simply went indoors.”
The Branton Files: Index 21-30
