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Mysterious Tunnels
By Stephen Wagner
Expeditions exploring deep, mysterious tunnels and caves in various parts
of the world return with strange tales of subterranean civilizations, cities
and advanced yet ancient technology.
There is something fundamentally and primally mysterious about caves and
tunnels. Maybe it's their darkness or the fact that they open into the very
body of the Earth. They are invariably the subjects of adolescent adventure
stories, such as the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew mysteries, and R.L. Stine's
books. And they serve as backgrounds in exciting stories directed at older
audiences as well, such as Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the
Earth and the Indiana Jones films. Tunnels represent the unknown and touch
the fears that reside deep in the primitive human subconscious.
Recently, I've come across several sites on the Web that tell what some
believe are true stories of vast underground networks of tunnels. And they
are no less mysterious and fantastic than those used as settings in the
fictional tales mentioned above. It's not that the tunnels merely exist and
are unknown to most people, it's what they contain, who built them, and
why - and that takes us into the deepest recesses of the unknown.
People who claim to have first- or second-hand knowledge or experience
with these tunnels make many astonishing claims: that they contain long-lost
cities; that they are inhabited by advanced civilizations (perhaps the
descendents of Atlantis); that they are bases for extraterrestrials and
their flying saucers; that they are bases for secret government
installations. The government no doubt has top-secret military installations
deep within mountains and perhaps underground, but this, of course, is the
least fantastic of the stories. Here are highlights of some of the more
extraordinary claims.
GRAND CANYON MYSTERY
The April 5, 1909 edition of The Phoenix Gazette carried a story entitled
"Explorations in Grand Canyon." According to the article, a man named G.E.
Kinkaid made an astonishing discovery while on an expedition, sponsored by
the Smithsonian Institute, in the Grand Canyon. Among his findings:
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A mammoth chamber about 1,480 feet underground from which radiates
dozens of passageways "like the spokes of a wheel." -
Several hundred rooms, some of which contain artifacts such as weapons
and copper instruments of a kind that have never been known to be native to
the Americas. -
A crypt containing mummies - all adult males - wrapped in a bark fabric.
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A shrine containing a Buddha-like idol sitting cross-legged with a lotus
flower in each hand. -
Stone tablets on which are carved mysterious Egyptian-like
hieroglyphics.
The article also mentions a legend of the Hopi Indians that says their
ancestors once lived in an underworld in the Grand Canyon.
CRUMF BURIAL CAVE
In 1892, Frank Burns of the U.S. Geological Survey reported that he found
strange coffins in the Crunf Cave along the southern branch of the Warrior
River in Murphy's Valley, Alabama. The wooden coffins appeared to be
hollowed out by fire, then chiseled with stone or copper tools. Each coffin
was 7.5 feet long, 14 to 18 inches wide, and 6 to 7 inches deep. The lids
were open on each empty coffin. The specimens were sent to the Smithsonian,
which suggested the coffins might actually be troughs. In any case, the
museum lost the artifacts.
TUNNEL NETWORK UNDER CALIFORNIA
According to an article entitled "California Floats On Ocean?" in the Fall
1985 edition of Search magazine, a high-ranking but unnamed Naval officer
told of the discovery of a huge network of tunnels under portions of the
west coast of the U.S. He said that U.S. nuclear submarines had explored
some of these tunnels, which are accessible just off the continental shelf,
and had followed them inland for several hundred miles. Here are more
highlights of this incredible claim:
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What is being passed off as the San Andreas Fault are actually large,
unsupported chambers that are in the process of collapsing. -
A well-known U.S. Nuclear submarine lost its way in one of the passages
and was never heard from again. (Two U.S. nuclear submarines have
disappeared under mysterious circumstances - the U.S.S. Thresher and the
U.S.S. Scorpion.) -
Some of California is actually floating on the ocean. When oil companies
began pumping oil from beneath the city of Long Beach, it began to sink - up
to 26 feet before the pumping was stopped.
MORE AND MORE TUNNELS
The above story was written up in a long article called "The Underground
Empire," which reveals many more details. It also offers these other
fascinating accounts:
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A couple from Bishop, Calif. discovered a circular hole in the ground
while exploring for petroglyphs. They climbed down the hole which bottomed
out to a horizontal corridor. On one of the walls was carved a face out of
the mouth of which poured water. Suddenly the water started to gush out of
the face and from other openings, and the couple was forced to abandon the
tunnel. Later, both recalled that they heard music down there.
This tunnel in Bahce Dere gets smaller and smaller until it arrives at a
vertical shaft leading up. Its purpose is unknown. -
In West Virginia, workers found some caverns with strange hieroglyphics
written on the walls. They also claimed to gear faint voices and what
sounded like machinery coming from beyond the walls of the cavern. -
Two men searching for bat guano (which has some value as fertilizer) at
the foot of Mount Lassen found a deep cave. They followed it inside for a
mile or two and noticed that the floor was worn smooth, as if it had been
used for a road. Eventually they met three strange "men" who asked if they
are "surface people," and then took them deeper in the cave on an
electromagnetically powered hovercraft. The story gets stranger from there. -
Travelers Ferdinand Ossendowski and Nicholas Roerich claim to have
discovered a subterranean society below central Asia, which they referred to
as Agharta or Agharti. They say it is home to 20 million people, and their
civilization extends throughout all the subterranean passages of the world. -
A 12-man speleological team broke into an ancient tunnel system in
northern Arkansas and encountered the inhabitants of the subsurface world. -
Exploring another cave in Arkansas, 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.
Brazil is said to have many entrances to an underground world. Several
people claim to have proof:
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Two explorers returning from tunnels near Ponte Grosse in Brazil say
they spent five days in an underworld city inhabited by 50 adults and some
children. -
The same two explorers found another tunnel entrance in Rincon and saw
luminous flying saucers going in and out, and heard beautiful choral
singing. -
An old man living near Concepiao told how he had visited a vast
underground city where strange vehicles darted back and forth. -
An explorer looking through a tunnel near Rio Casdor met a beautiful
woman who appeared to be about 20 years old, but told the explorer she was
2,500 years old.
Pretty far-out stuff, huh? There is, of course, no proof to verify any of
these stories, and the explorers always seem to lose or forget where the
exact entrance to these caves and tunnels are. Some of the stories may have
a basis in fact, but most are certainly tall tales, exaggerations, or
outright fabrications. But they fortify our fascination with strange caves
and tunnels. They make me, at least, want to go exploring in them. And who
knows what would be found.
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