What do you think about this?
Rising alone out of far northern California stands Mount Shasta, a fourteen thousand foot volcano that has drawn pilgrims, mystics, and seekers for more than a century. And the strangest story attached to it says that deep inside the mountain lives a hidden race of beings, the last survivors of a lost continent called Lemuria.
The idea began in an odd place. In the 1860s a scientist proposed a sunken landmass to explain why lemur fossils turned up in places an ocean apart. The science was later replaced, but the name Lemuria stuck and took on a life of its own. Then, around the turn of the century, a young Siskiyou County man named Frederick Spencer Oliver wrote a book he claimed was dictated to him by a spirit, describing a secret city of gold inside Mount Shasta, home to tall, graceful, white-robed people who had escaped the drowning of their homeland.
Ever since, hikers and locals have added to it. Reports of robed figures who vanish into the trees, of strange lights on the slopes at night, of a stranger who helps a traveler and then is simply gone. The mountain has a way of making people feel watched.
Could it be that the legend grew so strong simply because Shasta is the kind of place where the mind reaches for the extraordinary?
A beautiful modern myth, or a secret the mountain has kept all along? What do you think people keep sensing on Mount Shasta?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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