What do you think about this?
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? In 1974 a farmer in Sardinia struck stone and uncovered an army of giants, dozens of statues over seven feet tall with double circle eyes, around three thousand years old. Someone smashed them and buried them. What were the giants meant to be?
What do you think about this? On the coast of Brittany stand more than three thousand stones in rows that run for miles, raised before Stonehenge and before the pyramids. Nobody left an explanation. A lost astronomy, a forgotten faith, or something we have no word for?
What do you think about this? In 1963 a man in Turkey knocked out a basement wall and found a city cut eighteen levels down, with stone doors that sealed from the inside and room for twenty thousand people. Nobody is certain who dug it. What were they hiding from?
What do you think about this? In 1934 the LA Times ran a front page story about a labyrinth under downtown built by an ancient Lizard People. The city let a mining engineer sink a shaft 250 feet down. Then the money ran out. A fantasy, or a real anomaly under the city?
What do you think about this? In Cholula, Mexico there is a hill with a pretty yellow church on top. It is the largest pyramid ever built, bigger by volume than Giza, swallowed by grass until it looked like ordinary ground. Lost knowledge, deliberate burial, or just time?
What do you think about this? A short boat ride from Venice sits Poveglia, an island so tied to plague dead and a shuttered asylum that it has been closed to visitors for decades. Fishermen steer around it. Grim history and imagination, or ground that holds onto something?
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