Mt. Shasta Lemurians

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?