Part 4
“I have had many correlations on this data and am researching it further toward a comprehensive theory of space travel…”
The account given below appeared in ‘INNER LIGHT’ Magazine, Summer, 1991. Written by ‘Antara’, the article, entitled: ‘INTRODUCING THE WOMAN FROM TELOS, THE CITY BENEATH MOUNT SHASTA’, is an alleged interview with this same resident of a subterranean city now living and working on the surface, under the name of ‘Bonnie’ or ‘Sharula’, along with her husband ‘Shield’. We quote portions of the interview as follows:
“The following interview with Sharula took place on July 23, 1990, and is reprinted from ‘INSIGHTS FOR POSITIVE LIVING.’ She shares with us some wonderful information about the ‘Atlantean’ and ‘Lemurian’ cities (i.e. cities originally ‘built’ by antediluvian ‘Atlanteans’ and ‘Lemurians’? – Branton) that exist beneath the earth’s surface.
“She speaks of her home, Telos, a city built a mile or so beneath Mt. Shasta, California. During a recent trip to Mt. Shasta, I encountered several local townspeople who have personally seen mysterious fires and lights on the slopes of Mt. Shasta, and have heard otherworldly chants and music late at night, emanating from the mountain. And of course, there have been sightings of mysterious robed people walking into the side of the mountain. Even the local visitor’s guide mentions the ‘Lemurian’ connection to Mt. Shasta.
“This interview may really stretch your perceptions of reality. I hope it does. It’s meant to…
“INSIGHTS: Let’s start off with some basic questions of who you are and where you come from.”
“SHARULA: My name is Sharula and I come from a city underneath Mt. Shasta, called Telos. This city was constructed… at the termination of the Lemurian continent. When the scientists and priests of Lemuria realized the continent was about to sink, they petitioned a group called the Agharta Network, which controlled all the subterranean cities, to build our own city underneath Mt. Shasta. There was an original set of caves there. We chose to enlarge these caverns to make them bigger and more livable…” (Note: Although most accounts seem to suggest that ‘Atlantis’ was destroyed in a cataclysm equivalent to a universal flood or deluge such as is described in the traditions of several races as well as in the writings of the Greek Plato, ‘Lemuria’ may be a different story. ‘Lemuria’ seems to be the name that surface humans have attributed to this alleged lost continent of the Pacific, but whether it was actually named that by the ancient inhabitants is uncertain. The major area of confusion seems to be whether ‘Lemuria’ or ‘Mu’ was an antediluvian OR post- deluvian society like ‘Agharti’. James Churchward seems to place ‘Mu’ somewhere in the Indian ocean, whereas others place it in the Pacific. Some of the old Indian tribes of the northeast and the California area have ancient legends of an island-continent called ‘Elam-Mu’ which was said to be connected to ancient California or separate from it, out in the Pacific Ocean. Could the Hawaiian islands be remnants of such an island-continent? The native American legends of California seem to place ‘MU’ shortly AFTER the deluge, which was believed to have occurred a few thousand years B.C. or 5000 years previous to the close of the 20th Century. The exact history of the ‘Telosians’ still needs to be investigated, even with the present information available, as it seems to be a complex history possibly involving several races – the Uighers, Naga-Mayas, Quetzal’s, ‘Lemurians’ or ‘Muvians’, Aghartians, and possibly Greeks, East Indians, and others!? – Branton).
“INSIGHTS: How many people live in Telos?”
“SHARULA: A million and a half.”
“INSIGHTS: Tell us about your ecosystem; your water, food, air, environment–what is it like to live in Telos?”
“SHARULA: We have perpetual light through a process of energizing stones to create full spectrum lighting. We process them with the forces that make them small suns. The five levels are garden levels where we produce all the food we need with hydroponic gardens. There are plants on all five levels that continue to circulate the air. We work off the same system the earth does – the plants produce oxygen (i.e. a subterranean ‘biosphere’ – Branton). Plus, we have air shafts that come through the surface that sends air. Since that air is polluted, we use them less and less.” (Note: Several years ago a man wrote into SEARCH Magazine stating that he was an Incan descendant who was “searching for” his own people, as he was convinced that they had escaped en masse into underground cities via ancient tunnels which they knew of, when the conquistadors invaded their land. He claimed that one day while by a river in a certain region near Matto Grosso, Brazil, he thought he heard a voice shouting from the top of a mountain. He began to climb the peak and a few hours later found himself beside a mountain-top shaft. He later managed to descend the shaft and discovered a tunnel which led horizontally to a point where a type of “door” existed. He heard what sounded like an “elevator” coming up from deep below and a well-built man who claimed to be part “Incan” appeared and introduced himself through a transparent screen. He was told that anyone entering this particular subterranean region had to undergo a physical “purification” process to remove the radioactive poisons from their bodies, which were resident in the atmosphere of the outer world. Could this explain why the lifespan of some of the under-people has reportedly increased dramatically? The Old Testament ‘Torah’ states that previous to the deluge a transparent ‘canopy’ of water vapor permeated the upper atmosphere, and some suggest that before this canopy fell in the form of the deluge the life-span of the antediluvians was dramatically increased because this “canopy” sealed-out most of the harmful and degenerating radiations of the sun. They suggest that this was why the antediluvians lived to an average of 500 years of age, while some like Methuselah lived upwards of 900 years! It appears as if the ‘Telosians’ have taken precautions not only from the atmospheric solar radioactive pollution resulting from a decaying atmospheric ‘shield’, as is evidenced by an increase in skin-cancer world-wide, etc., but also from the man-made radioactive and industrial pollutants – Branton)
“INSIGHTS: What form of government do you have?”
“SHARULA: We have a system where the government is run by the council of twelve plus one. They are twelve masters, six male and six female. If anyone has a disagreement, they go to an arbitrator, rather than fight it out among themselves. All arbitrators report to the council and they change constantly. They are appointed to that position based on their natural affinity for it.”
“INSIGHTS: Who appoints them to that position?”
“SHARULA: The temple of Melchizedek… All through the cosmos (i.e. human colonizers and explorers sent out from the earth since the deluge? – Branton) there is an order called Melchizedek…”
At this point we will, before continuing with the Sharula interview, deal with the history of ‘Melchizedek’, which began on Earth in ancient times. Melchizedek was the ancient High Priest of Salem (now Jerusalem). We believe that this subject is important enough to deserve a fairly extensive explanation. There are basically two divergent views concerning the Priesthood of Melchizedek. The first is held by the various ancient and neo-masonic religions, which basically state that there are NUMEROUS members of the order who have been ‘initiated’ into the priesthood through a process of religious devotion, etc., while the other view is held by the various groups of Judeo-Christian believers who claim that there is only one Melchizedek Priest, the God-Man Jesus, and since only one High Priest was allowed to serve before Almighty God at any one time in ancient Israel–to be replaced by another when he had passed on–these claim that since Jesus ascended from the grave and now lives forever without the possibility of every dying, this singular Priesthood will be His alone eternally. Both sides no doubt sincerely believe that they have ‘the truth’, but, of course, both cannot be correct.
Many believe that the ancient Melchizedek was none other than the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, or was in essence a ‘thiophene’ or an Old Testament appearance of Jesus-Jehovah. They make the following connections and similarities between Melchizedek and Jesus as evidence of their beliefs:
CHARACTERISTICS OF MELCHIZEDEK CHARACTERISTICS OF JESUS CHRIST
“…Melchizedek King of Salem.” “Unto us a child is born… and
– Gen. 14:18 (the Hebrew word his name shall be called… The
for ‘Salem’ is ‘Shalem’ which Prince of Peace.” – Isaiah 9:6
literally means: “PEACEFUL; “…When they heard that
SHALEM, an early name for Jer- Jesus was coming to Jerusalem..
us.:Salem.” – From: STRONG’S (they) cried, Hosanna: Blessed
CONCORDANCE) is the King of Israel…” (or,
King of Peace, King of Salem) –
John 12:12-13
“And Melchizedek… brought “…Jesus took bread, and
forth bread and wine.” (i.e. blessed, and broke it… and he
the fruit of the vine, or the took the cup, and… gave it
fruit of the grape) – Genesis unto them.” – Mark 14:22-23
14:18
“Melchizedek… was the Priest “…Seeing then that we have a
of the most high God.” – great high priest, that is pas-
Genesis 14:18 sed unto the heavens, Jesus…”
“Melchizedek… abideth a – Hebrews 4:14
priest continually.” – Hebrews “But into the second went
7:1,3 the high priest alone once
“And they truly were many every year… But Christ being
priests, because they were not come an high Priest… by his
suffered to continue by rea- own blood he entered in once
son of death.” – Hebrews into the holy place, having
7:23 obtained eternal redemption for
us.” – Hebrews 9:7,11-12
“But this man (Jesus), be-
cause he continueth ever, hath
an unchangeable priesthood.”
– Hebrews 7:24
“Melchizedek… to whom also “And all the tithe of the land
Abraham gave a tenth part of …is the Lord’s: it is holy
all.” (i.e. tithes) – Hebrews unto the Lord… the tenth
7:1-2 (also see: Genesis 14: shall be holy unto the Lord.”
18-20) – Leviticus 27:30,32
“Jesus Christ is Lord…”
– Philippians 2:11
“Melchizedek… King of right- “In those days… I will cause
eousness…” – Hebrews 7:1,2 the Branch of Righteousness to
grow up unto David, and he
shall execute judgement in the
land.” – Jeremiah 33:15
“Melchizedek… having neither “I am Alpha and Omega, the be-
beginning of days, nor end of ginning and the ending.. the
life…” – Hebrews 7:1,3 Almighty… the first and the
last… I am he that liveth,
and was dead; and, behold, I am
alive for ever more.” – Reve-
lation 1:8,11,18
We continue now with the interview with ‘Sharula’:
“INSIGHTS: Earlier, you mentioned… you had to petition the Aghartha, the ones in charge of the inner earth cities. Are there other cities in existence?”
“SHARULA: Oh, yes. There are many. There are over one hundred inner earth cities. Some of them are very similar…”
“INSIGHTS: How does one travel from city to city or from surface to inner city?”
“SHARULA: Probably the most common method is what we call the ‘tubes.’ It is a series of underground trains. We’ve bored tunnels that run underneath all the oceans and all the continents and connect all the cities and several of the retreats. The trains, which look very much like a subway train, are run on a cushion of air, an electromagnetic cushion, so they never actually touch the sides of the tunnel. This cushion creates a force field without friction and therefore they can achieve very high speeds. The trains are capable of running over 3,000 mph.”
“INSIGHTS: Between the surface and the inner cities, how does one travel?”
“SHARULA: There are several entrances that open to the surface. We’ll use that method or we’ll use a ship which is run by the silver fleet.”
“INSIGHTS: The silver fleet…explain that please.”
“SHARULA: …The silver fleet is made up of beings from the Agharthean cities. Many of the ships that people see in the air are silver fleets’ ships, except for the ‘nasties.'”
“INSIGHTS: How can you identify a silver fleet ship as opposed to the ‘nasties,’ as you call them?”
“SHARULA: …all the Confederation ships run off of ‘divine’ geometrics (or rather, ‘cosmic’ geometrics – Branton). The ships will be either cylinder (cigar?) or they will be saucer shaped or they will be round. There are NOT a lot of protrusions and angles; they have a tendency to be smooth. The ships that come in boomerang shapes and other weird configurations are usually not Confederation ships.” (Note: although this may be true to some extent, in recent years according to some reports the saurian grays have begun to use the ‘disk’ or ‘saucer’ shape also more frequently. The ‘triangular’ craft seen en masse in Belgium, etc. are apparently ‘gray’ craft according to abductees there, which would tend to confirm some of what Bonnie or Sharula is saying. Also, these ‘boomerang’ craft have often been seen in connection with the Archuleta sub-base network of the southwestern U.S., which would seem to indicate from what Sharula has said that the “Dulce” network is largely under the control of the ‘nasties’, or the draconian powers, as many other sources allege that it is. – Branton)
“INSIGHTS: Let’s talk about the people themselves, the Telosians. What would a typical Telosian look like?”
“SHARULA: The typical Telosian has a slightly golden tone to their skin and have a tendency toward high cheek bones and slightly almond shaped eyes. Most Telosians run toward light hair and we have all eye colors. The men are generally 7′ to 7’6″ in height and the women are generally 6’6″ to 7’1″ in height. When we come to the surface we have a process of altering the molecules of our bodies so that we are able to appear the same height as people here on the surface.”
“INSIGHTS: Does your civilization have any of the social problems that ours seem to have, like: pollution, hunger, homeless people and water droughts?”
“SHARULA: No. We don’t have pollution because we are able to monitor our systems at all times. We have learned to accelerate the atom. When the first scientists started working with atoms they didn’t realize that they weren’t meant to shatter the atom for energy; they were meant to accelerate the atom for energy that won’t die out and won’t produce hazardous afterform. Because we learned to accelerate the atoms, we’re also able to dematerialize all of our waste matter and return it back to its original form…”
“INSIGHTS: Is the U.S. Government aware of the existence of Telos and the other underground cities?”
“SHARULA: Yes. For a long time they have been trying to get in, to access the information of Telos and the silver fleet. The promise of what they need would be given to them, but in return there are several things they have to do or quit doing?”
“INSIGHTS: What was it that they were given to do or stop doing?”
“SHARULA: Basically, return the country to what it was founded on and return to an open and honest government, so that every citizen has access to what’s happening in the government.” (Note: i.e. Constitutionally-based government, Bill of Rights’s,etc? If this is Sharula’s interpretation of an ‘open’ government, then we must assume that the Telosians, or at least many of them, are opposed to the present plans to establish a one-world socialist dictatorship or ‘New World Order’ which will no doubt impose tremendous threats upon individual liberty of conscience. The reader may recall the information from an earlier file to the effect that human ‘benevolents’ were working with the U.S. Government in the Nevada Military complex against the saurian grays. Their ‘teachings’ stated that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights was very much respected by them. Also, could these be allied with the same ‘human’ aliens who landed in Florida after the two giant astroid-ships took up a geosynchronous orbit around the earth, and warned us not to have any dealing with these ‘gray’ aliens, and offered their own assistance if we dis-armed our nuclear weapons? Were ‘they’ tied in with the Telosian ‘Blonds’ or the Pleiadean ‘Nordics’? Some accounts suggest that both human groups are at least aware of each other, and possibly have an alliance with each other. Now that the Soviet Union has broken up and the ‘need’ for intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles has been decreased, will the U.S. government break-off their self-destructive alliance with the ‘grays’ and instead seek alliances with the human groups who had originally warned them about the grays? – Branton)
“INSIGHTS: Are you referring to the government’s interaction with other ‘extraterrestrial’ (and/or ‘innerterrestrials’ – Branton) that are not of the silver fleet?” (Note: The interviewer is no doubt referring to the ‘pact’ which the secret government was manipulated and deceived into making with the reptilian ‘Grays’, and subsequently with other branches of the ‘serpent race’ – Branton)
“SHARULA: Yes. That is only one.”
“INSIGHTS: When was the government first introduced to Telos?”
“SHARULA: They have been aware of the subterranean cities and they have been aware of Telos since the country’s conception. It is only near the turn of the century that they started taking action. This action did not get really aggressive until the 1950’s.”
Note: There are indications that some members of certain Masonic- type ‘secret government’ societies, such as the Rosicrucian Order, have attempted to establish contact with the subterranean residents of Mt. Shasta, although it is uncertain just what might have come of this. Several encounters with the ‘Blondes’ (both subterran and exterran?) have revealed ‘their’ own concern about what is taking place with the abductions and mutilations of human beings by the sauroid Grays, although many of these groups claim that they cannot ‘interfere’ with the problem due to some ‘cosmic law’ of non- intervention. This may be true with those ‘Nordic’ or ‘Blonde’ societies who hail from other planetary bodies, such as the Taurians, Lyrans, Eridanians, and Cetusians (the latter of whom seem to be taking the most action to help their brothers here on earth, in essence interfering with the saurian ‘interferers’ from the Draconis, Bootes, Reticuli, Canis, etc. constellations), and the ‘Solar Tribunal’ groups of Mars, Luna, Saturn, etc, and so on. However, in the case of the Telosian-Aghartian alliance, this ‘non-intervention’ policy would not apply, since this is their world also, and they are just as native to earth as anyone else living on this planet. In light of this fact, and especially in light of their own awareness of the reptilian-saurian threat, we would urge them (if by chance they are reading this) to reconsider such a stance and join with their fellow human brothers and sisters on the surface in defending our society from this ancient threat.
According to Sharula, in another interview, the city of Telos exists on five different levels. The bottom level is about one and one-half miles across, while the other levels are different. The closest level to the mountain itself is about three-quarters of a mile across. This would allow for the possibility of “housing” a large number of inhabitants in a more concentrated area than surface cities could permit, being that surface areas can only be inhabited on the one (surface) level, except for high-rises. This might explain the large (million-and-a-half) population of this particular sub-city.
As a possible confirmation of the above, we quote the following transcript of parts of an interview between John Lear and the National Fringe Sciences Bulletin Board:
“Question: You just mentioned that there were… other ‘species’ in contact with this world… are they aware of the EBE’s?
“Lear: Yes they are. The types I will mention are listed in a USAF Academy Physics book called ‘INTRODUCTORY SPACE SCIENCE VOLUME 2,B.’ I refer to chapter 13… which lists the ones that are most seen. They are the EBE’s, the ‘Blondes’… They look just like us but are invariably blond haired and blue eyed. Don’t know where they come from but they do not interact with us except for a few abductions now and then. We also have a species that is similar to us in appearance but they are about seven feet tall and the main difference is that their eyes wrap around their head a little more than ours. Another type listed is a small species about four feet tall, very hairy and extremely strong for their size. We don’t know where these guys come from either. All this was in the aforementioned text which was withdrawn by the Air Force in the early ’70’s from the book. But there are several people who have the original book…
“Question: I’m curious also as to the government’s plans, if any, to deal with an uprising of EBE’s should that eventually occur… or would the technological gap make an attempt untenable?
“Lear: It is my understanding that we have already lost the battle. This is the reason why MJ-12 is in such a panic. They had a lot of well laid plans to inform us, and when the deception was confirmed about 1984 it was all out the window…
“Question: Recently in the INF treaty negotiations, Gorbachev indicated that despite prior claims, they too were working on an SDI program… Is there any connection between our program and theirs and if the battle is lost, why are those attempts being made?
“Lear: I wish I knew the answer to that. Several rumors have come out of the test site recently and one of them was that every test shot this year (1989? – Branton) has been to make a giant (underground – Branton) room. The shots are very clean and as soon as everything subsides they move in equipment to make walls, ceiling, floors and various levels.”
The following account is based on a series of letters, documents, and diagrams which were received from a man in Michigan who we will refer to as David L., who claimed to have been part of a 12-man speleological team who broke into an ancient tunnel system and, subsequently, encountered some of the inhabitants of the subsurface world. These beings described by David ‘may’ be the 7-ft. tall humans with large ‘wrap-around’ eyes described by John Lear who have bases on the moon. However this is only a supposition.
During the mid-1980’s, subsurface researcher Charles A. Marcoux (now deceased) informed other researchers who were at the time involved in aerial and subsurface investigations, that he had received a manuscript, maps, etc., from a long-time correspondent of his. This was David L. We will not reveal the last name of this source, nor the last names nor the cities of residence of others involved in the incident out of respect for their privacy. However, since much of the story was released to inner earth researchers some years ago we feel that the information itself is of enough importance to the “master puzzle” to mention here.
The manuscript contained an account of a series of expeditions which David L. and 11 others were involved with during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Only 4 or 5 of the members took part in the expeditions at any given time, while the others supported their efforts. The account contained a description of an alleged encounter with a subterran “human” race who allegedly inhabited an underground city or cities, connected by tunnels, approximately 5-7 miles beneath the surface of northern Arkansas. This subterranean system was apparently built by a highly technological race. Some indications suggest that the tunnels were constructed by a race which was more ancient than the present inhabitants, and were possibly excavated in antediluvian times, since the present inhabitants allegedly showed the speleologists ancient sealed ‘cities’ farther below their own, built by a race which pre-dated themselves.
Some of the men involved were formerly members of a UFO organization which thrived in Michigan in the 1950’s, and which published a UFO journal which had up to a few thousand subscribers at one point. Some of the writers for this publication, who were also members of the ‘board’ of this investigations group, later left off investigating UFO’s due to the confusing “paranormal” aspects of the phenomena, and instead turned their attentions to subsurface investigations. At the time there was a great division between those UFOlogists who considered the UFO phenomena to be an exclusively physical and solid phenomena and those who were convinced it was more paraphysial or supernatural in nature. Unfortunately, few considered the possibility that both could be true, i.e. that a physical race of alien “sorcerers” that possessed seemingly supernatural or paraphysial abilities, such as the reptilian Grays, were behind much of the phenomena. One of the early members of this groups was a man by the name of George Wight. He, like the others, felt that it might be more profitable to investigate something more “closer to home”, like the subterranean realm, instead of attempting to investigate possible encounters with alien craft from beyond earth which were here today and gone tomorrow and might have been paraphysial apparitions anyway, from all they could gather. So the group eventually drifted towards investigating the underground realm, beginning with the exploration of caverns in Arkansas and surrounding states.
According to David L., even though they had been partially exposed to the idea of subterranean civilizations through the Shaver Mystery, etc., none of them ever expected to encounter anything like that, and they took such accounts with a grain of salt. To them the idea was almost as elusive as the UFO phenomena, they had not really seen any solid evidence to prove it. They probably realized that any such “evidence” of an alien civilization might be apprehended by government officials even if it did turn up, and so they more-or-less resigned themselves to a “wait and see” attitude.
Two of the incidents which led Wight and the others to their assumption of a “paranormal” connection to the UFO phenomena were as follows. The first incident which led them to their conclusions involved a woman known by some members of the group, who claimed to be an “occult channel” for psychic messages from the so-called “space people”. The researchers tried to convince the girl that she should ask the ‘occupants’ to make an appearance to them, which she did. She took them outside and directed their attention to the sky. From the standpoint of the researchers, nothing could be seen in the sky, even through the girl insisted that ‘they’ were there. However, several people in the area reported seeing a luminous object flying overhead at about the same time the researchers were standing outside with the ‘contactee’, and in the exact same area. They noticed some strange qualities with the girl which reminded them of some of the obsessive and irrational behavior which often accompanies those who have become involved in the occult, witchcraft, and the dark side and have become ‘possessed’ by invisible malevolent entities as a result. Also, with the ‘religious’ background of some of the members of the group, they began to suspect that something sinister and deceptive and at least in part supernatural might be working behind the phenomena. They noticed that some of the objects could be seen by people who were supposedly ‘psychically attuned’ to them or people who were under the influence of the objects and the occupants, while those standing next to them might not see anything at all.
The other account involved one of the members of the group who was of the conviction that many of the UFO’s were of ‘demonic’ origin (this is not to say that ALL such objects can be classified in this way). This member was alleged to have had conversations with a well- known UFOlogist at the time who claimed to have had frequent visits by the so-called ‘Men In Black’. The beings he encountered looked humanlike yet seemed to possess (or were ‘possessed’ by?) supernatural energies; perhaps a “controlled” hidden society of sorcerers!? This particular member of the group, according to David L., claimed that during his conversations with this well-known researcher, he was told by this man confidentially that he was of the opinion that some of the UFO phenomena was ‘satanic’ or ‘demonic’ in nature. The member who was told this even went so far as to begin giving public lectures about the occultic/demonic origin of some of the phenomena.
According to David L., some time afterwards and apparently in response to his outspokenness, this member and friend of his was on a ranch somewhere in the mountains of Wyoming where he was suddenly struck by a brilliantly lit red-glowing object which appeared in the sky. As a result of this he suffered serious paralysis below the waist and was consigned to a wheel chair for years afterwards.
Shortly before the group officially disbanded the UFO organization, George Wight himself wrote and published an article in their periodical which presented strong evidence that much of the UFO phenomena was being directed by an unknown intelligence which was secretly working towards the establishment of an Anti-Christ system on earth.
As the “group” began to disband, some of it’s members as we’ve said began to seek out ways to continue their friendships and still remain active in some pursuit. Not so much out of a motive to discover a lost world but more out of a desire to fulfill their hunger for adventure (and escape for at least a time the busy rat-race which many of them, having been involved in some type of ‘professional’ career or business, found themselves getting caught up in) they began to explore the caverns.
During the latter part of the 1950’s the exploration party had investigated some very interesting caverns, mainly within the area of Arkansas and the surrounding states. At on point they came across one particular cavern some miles north of Batesville, Arkansas. This was in an area where several caverns were located. Many of these caves (concentrated generally NW-West of the town of Cushman) have in fact been the subject of some very interesting accounts, suggesting that there might be more thanone route to the nether regions below other than the one discovered by David L. and his friends. There are accounts of several people who have entered some of these caves and were never seen again; or who encountered strange phenomena deep underground – such as electrical failure of flashlights, suggesting possible electromagnetic interference; accounts involving extremely deep caverns; gas pockets encountered at extreme depths; and an account concerning one of the caves west of Cushman which seemed to have ancient carvings over it depicting various figures; and there is even one account which came from an Oklahoma man who was told by a friend of his of being chased from a cavern west of Cushman by a large hairy humanoid who began throwing boulders at him as if annoyingly scaring him out of “his” territory!
At one point David L’s group came across one particular cavern near the town. Over a period of years, returning from time to time to this particular cavern, the explorers had crossed underground lakes, followed dead-end leads, explored “breakdown” areas, investigated numerous cracks and chasms, and steep inclines. One of their most fortunate discoveries was made in a large boulder-strewn break-down area about half-way between the entrance and an underground “lake”. They noticed a crack in the path which they had found through the boulders and, following this crack into the thick of the breakdown they came across another area where the crevice widened enough to allow them entrance. Following this they descended for a very great distance for a very long while, down a sloping 45 degree incline, so steep in places that rope had to be used. This steep, sloping passage led them past a couple of horizontal “side passages” which they followed a few miles to dead ends, and continued deeper through at least one more crevice. Eventually they emerged into a large cavernous area hundreds of feet high and long, which they named “glass cave” because of it’s features, and used it as a central “camp” in subsequent explorations. The remarkable thing about this cavern, however, was their claim that it was located almost 4 MILES beneath the surface of the earth, which would definitely make it deeper than any other “officially” recognized cavern.
Time and again they explored the mazes and labyrinths deep in the earth using “glass cave” as their central camp. Two passages in the far wall of this chamber, opposite from the crevice through which they first entered glass cave, were each explored for 3 days continuously before they decided to turn back. According to David L., these passages still continued onward with no end in sight. Could these have led to the gloomy ‘hadean’ like caverns which they were to see later, and which they alleged contained ‘gigantic serpents’ or snakes capable of crushing a human being to death in a few seconds?
After some experiments involving air flow within glass cave, the explorers were able to trace slight air movements to another as-yet- undiscovered crevice hidden within the wall, not far from the crevice which they had entered from above. This passage, through relatively small, continued still DEEPER into the earth. They explored the steep incline for what they approximated to be a mile, before reaching an area of “breakdown”. This “seemed” to be the end of the line. Just as they were about to turn back in disappointment from this passage which had taken them deeper than they had ever been before, one of the members of the team noticed that the light of their carbide lamps seemed to have a faint amber tint to it. All of them were perplexed, wondering what would be causing the phenomena.
It was decided that they would all turn off their lamps in order to see if the greenish luminescence remained. They did so, and a minute or so afterwards their eyes adjusted to the darkness and they could faintly distinguish a greenish luminescence which seemed to emanate from the lowest part of the passage in an area where heavy “breakdown” SEEMED to close off any further progress.
George Wight was the first one to make his way to the spot in the breakdown area from which the faint light seemed to emanate and, after removing more rocks, they discovered that still another crack or crevice, barely wide enough for one man to enter at a time, descended vertically from beneath the breakdown.
According to David L., Wight volunteered himself to be the first to explore the crevice, and soon afterwards he was on his way down. A few minutes passed before those above heard the sound of what they could only guess was George slipping and falling down the crevice.
After a period of uncertainty those above, concerned for his safety, were relieved to hear the faint voice of George Wight rising up from apparently several dozen feet below. They were able to make out his excited words to the effect that he had fallen into a large tunnel, and encouraged the others to follow him.
They did so, and when they were all in the ‘tunnel’ they stood in stunned silence. The passage which stretched out from them in BOTH directions was not like the common natural cavern passages which they had explored for the past few days. In fact, it seemed more artificial than natural. Approximately a dozen feet in height and about the same in width, the ‘tunnel’ was similar in shape to a subway tunnel, having a domed ceiling and a flat floor. What really caught their attention however, was the fact that the tunnel was illuminated by a greenish phosphorescence to the point that they did not need their carbide lamps to see their surroundings. The strange luminescence seemed to emanate from the walls of the tunnel itself, which were clear and glass-like yet at the same time extremely hard.
In one direction the lighting effect faded out into blackness, while in the other direction the light seemed to increase. One of the members suggested that the light might be coming from the surface, and that they might be in one of the old mines which existed in the area of the cavern entrance, but others brought up the fact that, according to their calculations, they were at least five miles beneath the earth and therefore the light probably did not come from the surface.
Subsequently, the explorers decided to investigate in the direction of the “light” since it would allow them to keep some carbide in reserve for their return trip. At one point the tunnel (which was apparently cut through solid rock much of the way and then glazed over with the hard, transparent substance) opened into a gigantic cavern. Actually, this occurred several times and at intervals, as if those who constructed the tunnel intentionally meant for them to intersect the various cavern systems. Did the ancient builders of this tunnel system possess a combination of gravitometers, x-rays and sounding radars to detect these cavities? Even as it passed through these large caverns, the tunnel still continued in the form of a transparent domed enclosure, still the same shape as before, yet this time the hard transparent substance was in the form of a ‘wall’ a foot or so thick that protected the group from the ‘outside’ or cavern environment. And fortunately so, for beyond the luminescent walls, were black expanses of gloomy darkness within which they could faintly make out huge moving and slithering figures of what seemed to be giant serpents and other grotesque reptilian creatures as well as other non-reptilian creatures, including giant insects.
If not for the fact that these creatures were physical, tangible things, these dark caverns could have been likely candidates for the legendary ‘Hades’ of Greek and Hebrew tradition.
The most shocking surprise of all, however, occurred on the third day after exploration of this tunnel began, a considerable distance from the crevice from which they entered the tunnel. They were walking along when all-of-the-sudden they turned around and found themselves face-to-face with a group of human-like beings who stood around 7 to 8 feet tall. ‘Their’ skin had a faint pale-bluish, almost clay-bluish tint to it and their eyes were relatively large and owl- like. But ‘they’ were definitely human, according to David L., who was on this particular expedition. The ‘people’ took out some type of electronic device, apparently some kind of parabolic communicator, and after a few attempts they succeeded in establishing a communication link using the electronic ‘translator’.
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