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September 2, 1993
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CAVMYSTR.ASC
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This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Rick Lawler.
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(INPUT 001)
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The following account appeared on page 52 of the Nov. 1954 issue
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of FATE magazine. The article was titled 'GATE TO THE UNKNOWN':
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"In March, 1954, a French Jesuit priest in Sorata, Bolivia,
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told a strange story of an exploring trip he had made in the cavern
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of San Pedro on 20,000 foot Mount Illampu of the Andes chain.
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"The cavern must be entered on all fours through a narrow
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passage which widens after a few yards and leads into an immense
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cavern filled with stalagmites and stalactites. At one end of the
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cavern is a subterranean lake.
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"The French priest claimed to be the first person to cross to
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the far end of the lake. After several hours of rowing a small boat
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by artificial light, he related, the cave narrowed and gave way to a
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trail barred by an enormous gate of wrought iron. The grille, he
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said, bore all the characteristics of 17th century Spanish ironwork.
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"The priest tried unsuccessfully to break through the barrier.
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He was eager to see what lay beyond but he had to return to Sorata
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without solving the mystery."
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The question one might ask in this case is: Did the old Spanish
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explorers go through all the trouble to forge the gate in order to
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keep someone out, or did they do it to keep some 'thing' in...?
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(INPUT 002)
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In the Fall, 1980 issue of 'SEARCH' magazine (p. 7) the following
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strange incident was reported:
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"A MILE OF LIGHTS -- Four teenagers, quite 'shook up', drove up
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to Deputy Sheriff Trotta in Putnam County, New York State, about
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1:30 a.m. one morning, and said they had seen an 'eerie sight' at an
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abandoned iron ore mine in nearby Brewster.
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"Trotta thought their explanation did, indeed, sound rather
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'eerie', so he got another police officer to accompany him.
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"They went to the mine shaft which was on a dirt road, off from
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another road, known as 'Lover's Lane'.
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"Going into the mine, they found two 'long rows of lighted
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candles as far as the eye could see'. The two officers followed
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them for about a mile. Then the trail of light suddenly came to an
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end, and that was that."
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(INPUT 003)
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Some of the early Indian inhabitants of Connecticut held a legend of
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a large subterranean chamber which was supposed to lie deep below
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the surface of their tribal lands. Within this large chamber, the
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legend states, a powerful demon or evil one sat upon a throne.
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Perhaps such legends were built around actual phenomena such as was
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described by Horace C. Hovey in his book 'CELEBRATED AMERICAN
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CAVERNS' (Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati., 1896). On pp. 199-200
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of this volume, under the sub-heading 'THE MOODUS NOISES', Hovey
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states:
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"Certain inexplicable sounds have mystified the inhabitants of
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a portion of the Connecticut valley for more than a century. From
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the fact that they were first heard at Moodus, a quite little hamlet
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beside a trout stream, they have been called the Moodus Noises. In
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1729 these detonations were so remarkable as to have caused
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consternation. A clergyman of the day writes:
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'Whether they be any thing diabolical in these things I know not,
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but this I know, that God Almighty is to be seen and trembled at.'
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'I myself,' he adds, 'heard 8 or 10 sounds successively, and
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imitating small arms, in the space of 5 minutes. I have, I suppose,
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heard several hundred of them within 20 years, still more, some less
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terrible. Oftentimes I have heard them to be coming down from the
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north, imitating slow thunder, which shakes the houses and all that
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is in them.'
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"These strange sounds have been recently heard, as late as
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1881, at Salem, Conn., New London and elsewhere, and have caused
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renewed interest in the subject. Their starting point seems to be
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Mount Tom, and in March, 1881, it is affirmed that the faint
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rumbling sound rising to a rattling peal was heard for several hours
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and by many people. The reason for referring to them here is that,
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in the opinion of some persons the Moodus Noises are due to
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explosions of gases in subterranean cavities, and indicate the
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existence of a large vacuity underneath Southern New England, which
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would not be suspected by a survey of the granite hills and smiling
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prosperity of the region thus threatened."
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(INPUT 004)
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The following article, written by Alex Sanders and titled 'HAUNTED
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CAVES', appeared in the Oct. 1961 issue of SEARCH Magazine:
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"Why (this question has been put to Shaver many times) have not
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our extensive mines of coal, silver, iron, gold, etc. broken into
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your alleged 'caverns'? Shaver has answered (as he does in SHAVER
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MYSTERY MAGAZINE number 2 - page 27) that 'The caves are deeper than
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miners penetrate - and they are led away when they get too near.
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Mines are too dangerous - many mines are "haunted", no one will work
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in them.'
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"This brings to mind a CORONET Magazine article - 'THE PHANTOM
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OF BUCK HILL CAVES' from the June, 1951 issue.
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"J. P. Folinsbee, the author, tells about Virginia's Buck Hill
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Caverns, 'a vast underground kingdom that, once discovered, has
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never been fully explored.' Unlike the NEARBY world-famous Natural
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Bridge which annually attracts some 500,000 tourists, the place was
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never opened to the public.
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"Unknown is the founder of the entrance, but back in 1889 a
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schoolboy named Jake Fitzgeralds did limited exploration around the
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surface opening, alone or with friends.
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"Then, in October (here I am not sure if it was October of
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1889, or years later when Jake was an adult) a Col. Henry Parsons
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who had heard tales of the strange beauty underground, talked Jake
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into entering the cave, for a dollar a day, to tell what he found.
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"A few days later, armed with oil lanterns, candles, ropes,
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chisels, Jake disappeared inside with his brother, Joe, as a small
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crowd watched curiously.
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"Hours later the two muddy figures returned, to whet the
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appetite of Col. Parsons with their spine-tingling description of a
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miles-long, extravagantly beautiful cavern.
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"The following week, an eight-man crew began the task of
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opening Buck Hill Caverns.
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"Discounting millions of bats, it was enormously impressive
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inside, what with vast chambers, a frozen, majestically-hanging
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waterfall, a crystal lake, weird stone formations, huge stalagmites
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and stalactites to take one's breath away.
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"Months passed, then one full year, of steady work.
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"Probing with a pick, Jake broke through a wall of flowstone.
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Enlarging the hole, his lantern shining within revealed a seemingly
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endless pit.
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"Quickly a rope lowered him down. Pulled back over the edge an
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hour later, the white-faced Jake excitedly described the unearthly
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magnificence of waterfalls, pools, lakes, vast chambers, even
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[stone] cave flowers.
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"The unparalleled sights were verified the next day by the awed
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workers. Still, the place was never open to the public. Because -
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one day the crew stopped their downward digging abruptly, for no
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reason at all, remaining oddly silent. For there came 'a sobbing
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cry, uncannily like the wracking voice of a woman, floating eerily
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up from the chasm. It stopped. Then it came again, in a long,
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moaning sigh that rose like a sob of pain.'
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"What was it? A woman crying (perhaps a prisoner in some deep
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underground dungeon? - Branton) as she lay down there? A HAUNT
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warning the men to depart (as one 'suggested' half-hysterically)?
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"They left - fast! - and as they ran silently, a second sobbing
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wail echoed behind them.
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"The men refused to return after that, though Jake tried for
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weeks to get them back to work. Others refused as well once the
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story of the Phantom of the Caves spread through the superstitious
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mountain country. Buck Hill Cavern, a possible million dollar
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wonderland, was necessarily abandoned.
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"When the CORONET article was written in 1951, white-haired
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Jake Fitzgeralds was still alive, the only man living who had heard
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the phantom voice. He resided then in an ancient long house at
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Bell's Cove, a few miles from Buck Hill.
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"What was the strange nose heard far below the earths crust by
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a team of workers over seventy years ago? Was it a freak waterfall
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sucking air in some hole? This Jake offered as an explanation.
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"Or - deros at work, as Richard Shaver might say, to keep the
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curious away?"
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(INPUT 005)
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Several years ago, a woman by the name of Christine Hayes described
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an incident related to her by a man who had explored a cavern in a
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remote mountain in South America. Deep in the cave he came upon an
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extensive underground 'lake' and had no sooner done so than a
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strange creature like the serpent of Loch Ness itself, raised its
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long neck out of the water and let out a cave-shuddering roar. The
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sea 'dragon' went back beneath the waves and the explorer left the
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cave in a hurry. Some time afterwards he again made a trip to the
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same mountain and cavern, only to discover that a 'cave-in' had
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completely sealed the entrance to the underground lake.
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(INPUT 006)
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Vance Randolph, author of several books dealing with Ozark
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'Folk' stories, related an incident, allegedly a real event, which
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took place in a mountainous region in northern Arkansas. Curious
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explorers who were attempting to plumb the depths of a particular
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'crevice' has allegedly lowered a heavy rock, tied to the end of a
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long rope, about 200 feet down into the pit. They felt a sudden
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jerk and lifted the rope up only to find that it had been cut clean.
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The rumor was that a giant snake had its lair deep under the
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crevice.
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(INPUT 007)
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'Commander X', in his book 'UNDERGROUND ALIEN BASES' (Abelard Press.
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New York) described one incident which was originally related in one
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of the 'SHAVER MYSTERY' publications which were prominent during the
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1950's.
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The incident was reported by a 'Professor W. Wiers' of Mexico,
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who stated that he knew of a 'Professor Schwartz' who had made a
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long study of cavern anomalies, starting when he was only 15 years
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old in Germany. According to Professor Weirs, just before the
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beginning of the Second World War, both the axis and allied powers
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were interested in using various caves as supply bases for numerous
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military applications. At this time, it is said, the Nazi's were
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secretly exploring caverns and old mines in the Southwestern United
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States, the Himalayas, South America, the Polar regions and
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elsewhere.
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Professor Schwartz related that he knew of a Nazi who had come
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upon an 'enormous circular pit' whose sides dropped straight down
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for a good 1,200 feet. Trees could be seen growing tall and
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straight below. Eagles soared around, and then dived to the bottom
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of the chasm, apparently eating something. Since the sides were
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dangerously steep the Nazi had to content himself with using
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binoculars instead of descending into the underground realm himself.
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Returning later with others (fellow German soldiers?) he
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eventually discovered a similar but much narrower shaft, not far
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from the first, which was so big that it could not be hidden in any
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way to those in the general vicinity. Not having a cable nor
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apparatus with which to let down a man into the seemingly bottomless
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shaft, they let down a pencil attached to a thin rope or cord. To
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their surprise, the cord, when drawn back up was found to be cut
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clean, as with a knife, or scissors--and the pencil was gone. Of
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course they all resolved to come back and study this pit further,
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but the war prevented their doing so.
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The location of the shaft is supposedly in Northern Guatemala.
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Near the place is a witch doctor, friendly to Professor Schwartz,
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who assured the Professor that there is a secret passage, closed by
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a revolving rock door, which goes to an enormous hidden chamber
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which is still below the vast roof cave-in seen from above.
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Some years ago researcher Penny Harper visited eastern
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Guatemala and learned of a strange cavern called 'Silpino' cave
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which had a legendary history. This caverns entrance was right next
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to a major road. It is uncertain whether this road was the one
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running from Zacapa to Puerto Barrios or another similar road.
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However, this cavern was said to be an ancient MAYAN cave. Explorers
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have claimed that ancient Mayan artifacts and carvings can be seen
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deep within the cave, and at one point the electrical cells in some
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of the explorers' flashlights were mysteriously drained. One man
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claimed he traveled for MANY days through the passage and came out
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at the bottom of the central shaft of an extinct volcano. He could
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see a pinpoint of light entering through the upper cone high above,
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and an underground stream with strange subterranean fish meandered
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through the cavernous maze. Another man entered the cave and
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returned about a month later, his body swollen from weeks of
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wandering in the damp underground tunnels. These accounts at least
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suggest that the ancient Mayans had a definite interest in the
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'subterranean' world.
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(INPUT 008)
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The following anomalous letter appeared, under the heading 'SOMEBODY
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ASK THE ARMY!', in the Nov. 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES magazine,
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and was submitted by a Mr. Kenneth Henderson of (at the time) 1441
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Madison Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana:
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"Sirs... Here is some information you may have; if not, this
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can be added to the Shaver Mystery.
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"I will reveal no names or how I came across this as it might
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involve the ORDINANCE OFFICER who told it to some friends of mine.
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"Recently in Mexico in some caverns the U.S. Army found six
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spaceships.
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"They know not who they belong to, or what they are made of.
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The construction of them is strange as they seem to appear to run of
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compressed air or by some such method. I hope this will add to your
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knowledge."
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(INPUT 009)
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Clay Perry, and veteran speleologist who may be the leading
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authority on New England caverns and subterranea, made the following
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comments on pp. 199-201 of his book 'UNDERGROUND EMPIRE: WONDERS AND
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TALES OF NEW YORK CAVES' (Ira J. Friedman, Inc., Port Washington,
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Long Island, N.Y.):
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"...Out of the clear skies of Utah, in June, 1947 came a
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strange inquiry about reputed caverns near Syracuse, N.Y. Miss Opal
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Kemp of 220 Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, made the inquiry, first to
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the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, then to the Secretary of the State
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of Albany, and finally to me, through the circulation of one of her
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letters to officials of the State Museum and the State Department of
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Conservation, who had the idea that a spelunker from Pittsfield,
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Massachusetts, would know about it if anyone did.
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"Miss Kemp had written that 'a group of us are planning to
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visit the east this summer and wish to explore caverns known as THE
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EAST CAVES OF SYRACUSE. These caves are said to be the western
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entrance to the subterranean passage which extended under the
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Atlantic Ocean to the British Isles. Part of the cavern system has
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collapsed--one as recently has 1928--so that it is now impossible to
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travel in them. However, the entrances remain intact.'
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"It took but a few minutes of research in the geology
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department of the State Museum to discover that there actually are
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some caves east of Syracuse, and that they are curious ones, indeed,
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and deep and some of them quite long, for in THE GEOLOGY OF THE
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SYRACUSE QUADRANGLE by Thomas Cramer Hopkins, published as NEW YORK
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STATE MUSEUM BULLETIN 171m in 1914, there was found not only an
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elaborate study of the 'EAST CAVES OF SYRACUSE,' but photographs
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taken, exteriorly, of some of the odd crevices, with people perched
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in them.
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"These crevices are in Onondaga limestone, which is the hardest
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kind found in New York State and which spreads clear across the
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Syracuse quadrangle, in some areas forming large, level floors of
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rock swept free of residual matter by glaciers and the wash of
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water, and with deep clefts in the rock.
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"One of the areas lies along the top of a cliff that borders
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what is known as the Clark Reservation, a state park, about three
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miles southeast of Syracuse. As Professor Hopkins describes them,
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"'..At the Syracuse caves, three miles southeast of the city,
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some of these fissure caverns have been explored to a depth of more
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than a hundred feet and some hundreds of feet in length. Where the
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fissuring has been intensified it produces the well-known KARSTEN
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topography.
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"'In a few places there has been a little deposition of calcite
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on the walls of the fissures, but in general the deposition is very
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slight in comparison with the solution since most of the material
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dissolved has been carried away into the streams or deposited in the
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deeper portions of the underlying rocks.
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"'Some of the fissures are open enough at the top to permit
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large quantities of snow to enter them during the winter months, and
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remain in the form of snow and ice during the greater part of the
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summer, forming what is known locally as the 'ice caves.' These
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occur in cliffs around Blue Lake and at Split Rock quarries.'
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"This officially confirms Miss Kemp's long-distance tip on
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caves which, until June, 1947, had completely escaped the attention
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of present-day geologists, speleologists, and spelunkers as well as
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the usually alert boosters of the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce,
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which brings us to the inland and western entrance to that
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prodigious reputed trans-ocean subway from the United States to the
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British Isles! But where, oh where is the other end."
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At this point in his book Mr. Perry referred to a cavern in
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France which was at the time of that writing measured to a depth of
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over 2,193 feet. The cave is known as the 'Great Hole of Preta',
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near Verona. However, since that time far deeper caves have
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'officially' been explored and documented. In THE GUINNESS BOOK OF
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WORLD RECORDS, we find that the cave system known as the 'Reseau du
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Foillis' had been explored in France to a depth exceeding 4600 feet.
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New 'depth' records are 'officially' being broken every day,
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however. Perry continues: "...But America may find that it holds
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the record for the longest cave in the world beneath its land, if
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these 'East Caves of Syracuse' do now or ever did extend from cliffs
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of the Syracuse area across under the ocean to the British Isles,
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for it is some two hundred miles from Syracuse to the Atlantic
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Coast.
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"It develops that the Geology Department of Syracuse University
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made some study of the caves, and that parties of students, with an
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instructor, used to explore the deep cliffs, using ropes, and
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actually have gone down as deep as 100 feet in them. Among those
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who have explored the caves (was) Professor Louis W. Ploger of the
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Geology Department, who was a student during the time such field
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trips were being made..."
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(INPUT 010)
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Helen C. Gordon, in a letter which appeared in the 'SHAVER MYSTERY
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MAGAZINE', Vol. 1, No. 2, 1947, pp. 3234., described a strange
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experience she and her husband had with a massive subterranean
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cavern below southern New Mexico.
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While driving near the Organ mountains southeast of Las Cruces,
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the two had spotted what seemed to be mine tailings high upon the
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forbidden-looking slopes. Being a bit curious and adventurous, they
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decided to spend some time and walk up the mountains and see if
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there were any mines as they suspected from the tailing piles. They
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finally reached the entrance to what they knew to be a mine, perhaps
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excavated sometime in the 1800's, and proceeded to explore it's
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interior. They made their way back into the dark interior, feeling
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their way along. They continued farther still until the entrance
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was a mere pinpoint of light, and suddenly they noticed that the
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right wall had disappeared into empty blackness. A natural or
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artificial 'wall' or partition blocked off most of the 'empty area',
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which spanned a considerable distance along the side of the
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horizontal mine. Just behind the 'wall' a narrow ledge ran along
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the top of what seemed to be a chasm.
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The chasm was deeper than their lights could reach and appeared
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to be more of a natural result of some ancient geological activity
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rather than artificial. They looked around for some wood and
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combustible material and constructed a torch, which they then
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dropped down the pit. They watched fearfully and in awe as the
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torch light became smaller and smaller until it disappeared from
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view altogether.
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After questioning some of the old timers in the area they
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learned that such chasms were encountered on rare occasions by
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miners, who referred to them as 'glory holes'. A glory hole is a
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natural shaft of such depth and expanse that it's bottom is
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difficult to plumb. The old miners apparently broke through to this
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'glory hole' and left the partition of the rock there for safety
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purposes.
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Vangard Note..
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This interesting file might lead to a understanding of what is
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being called "the Taos Hum". If underground caverns are being
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opened up, whether naturally or artificially, and wind whips
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through these caverns, very low frequency sounds (difficult to
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detect without special equipment) with an omnipresent pattern
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might be created. The 60 minute special on this pointed to a
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giant mineshaft ventilation fan as a possible culprit but the
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actual sound is still not resolved.
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