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In January 1934, the Los Angeles Times ran a straight faced front page story. A mining engineer named G. Warren Shufelt claimed that deep beneath downtown Los Angeles lay a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers built by an ancient race he called the Lizard People, who had dug underground to survive a catastrophe thousands of years ago. He said the story came from a Hopi chief. He said the maze was laid out in the shape of a lizard and stocked with gold tablets recording their history.
City officials actually gave him permission to dig. He sank a shaft two hundred and fifty feet down on Fort Moore Hill above the Civic Center, chasing readings from a device he trusted completely. The tail of the lizard, he said, ran on toward the Central Library. Then the money ran out, the shaft was filled, and the whole thing was quietly forgotten.
What if there really is something old and hollow under that part of the city that a 1934 dig came close to and then walked away from?
A gold rush era fantasy, or a real anomaly buried under modern Los Angeles? What do you think Shufelt was digging toward?
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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