A Voice from the Mountains
17th November 2014, 19:16
The Bermuda Triangle
by Charles Berlitz
This book was first published in 1974 and was a controversial best-seller. The author, Charles Berlitz (1914 – 2003), is remembered not only for his books on the Bermuda Triangle (such as this one), Atlantis (The Mystery of Atlantis, 1969), and other books related to historical mysteries or strange phenomena, but also for his contributions to language-learning. During his childhood, his father had ordered that every member of their household speak to Charles in a different language, so that by the time he was an adolescent he spoke eight languages fluently. He also spent 13 years active duty in the US Army, primarily working in intelligence.
Notes from the book:
The 7th Coast Guard/Navy acknowledges a radar/magnetic anomaly in the area between Florida & the Bahamas.
A mention of app. columns off the coast of Peru, ~1 mile underwater. Much of the water around Florida & the Bahamas is on a shallow continental shelf, but there are also long, straight vertical cliffs dropping into extremely deep abysses.
There are strange lighting phenomena around the Bahamas, making long streaks of ocean seem to glow, which are called “white water.” Columbus recorded seeing this, & also the astronauts of Apollo 12, which they said were the last lights visible to them from Earth.
A reference to Edgar Cayce's reading that “Atlanteans used crystals as a power source” in the Bimini area, & that Atlantis sunk into the ocean in this same area.
A very disproportionate number of unexplained & anomalous disappearances of planes & ships and/or their crews have occurred in this same area, noticed throughout history but particularly after WW2, with the disappearances of 5 aircraft performing an exercise & then a search plane also. [This is a reference to Flight 19, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on Dec. 5, 1945. They were on an overwater navigation training exercise based out of the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. None of the 14 men involved were ever found. A search plane, a PBM Mariner flying boat, also disappeared, and after an investigation was declared to have exploded mid-air.] Some reports of radio transmissions before their disappearance include mention of “white water,” that the ocean didn't look right, & one possible (censored) comment, “Don't come after me... They look like they are from outer space.” Like many such dis-appearances, nothing was ever found.
The Sargasso Sea is also known for dis-appearances, located roughly 37ºN to 27ºS & 75ºW to 40ºW, with shallow waters characteristically stagnant of currents & filled with seaweed on its surface. The Hatteras & Nares Abyssal plains are under it. It extends from the North Atlantic Ridge to within about 200 miles of eastern North American coasts. The Carthaginian admiral Himilco wrote an app. description of it around 500 BC, & mention is also made of Carthaginian & Phoenician artifacts being found in the Americas. The author writes that the Carthaginians had a mandatory death sentence for anyone who betrayed their routes or even presence on the Atlantic, beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). The presumption is that these earlier sailors wanted to protect trade routes & the economic benefits thereof.
Plato in his dialogue Critias quotes an Egyptian priest telling the Athenian lawgiver Solon that the Greeks remember only one deluge, while there have been many of them; also that “at the usual period, the stream from heaven descends like a pestilence…and thus you have to begin all over again as children.” Ancient Indian legends are said to tell of 9 “crises.”
European & American eels both take months to swim out in shoals to the Sargasso Sea to breed at a great depth, & then die. The newborns then begin a return journey to wherever their parents came from. This has led some to believe that the eels have a common ancestral home at what was once a continental river, now sunk in the Atlantic.
Pilots & sailors who have survived “near-misses” in the Bermuda area have repeatedly described a force pulling [their craft] into the water. Dick Stern, leaving for Italy in Dec. 1944 with a group of 7 bombers had his plane experience “clear air turbulence” & rapidly plummet towards the sea. He was forced to return to base, where he learned that 5 of the 7 bombers had disappeared without so much as radio communication, & were never found. Boats have also been suddenly sucked under, including Joe Talley's Wild Goose as it was being towed [by another ship]. A Captain Don Henry was towing another boat in 1966 with a 2000 HP vessel when he had an odd experience that caused his generators to lose power even as they still ran, his compass spin clockwise, & the sky, sea & horizon to become somehow indistinguishable. When he got out of this, from the outside of it looking back, it appeared to be a thick fog on otherwise clear waters. He said he had heard that at the St. Lawrence River in Kingston compasses will also spin in circles.
Directly east of Andros Island is the Tongue of the Ocean: “a precipitous drop-off,” extremely deep, within the Bahama area, associated with many disappearances & EM anomalies. When the surrounding shelf was above water (presumably during the Ice Age), this area would have been the great inland bay, of great depth, discussed by other authors for possibly being the inland bay of Atlantis [as described by Plato].
The Devil's Sea, off the coast of Japan, is also known for unusual EM activity & disappearances, is at 150ºE, the exact opposite side of Earth from 80ºW (the Bermuda Triangle).
Ref. to Ivan Sanderson's theory of 12 geometric points on Earth exhibiting similar activities, [at] every 30º latitude & the poles.
A UFO account by Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt. [Thutmose III (also rendered as “Thutmosis” or “Tuthmosis”) was Pharaoh of Egypt for 54 years, from 1479 BC to 1425 BC, according to modern mainstream archaeologists.] Alexander the Great's UFO account of 329 BC, while crossing into India. [This story has appeared in several books, but the original classical historian to whom it is supposed to have originally came is unclear. This account is also given as happening in 332 BC according to some sources. The German historian Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884) is cited by at least one author as the source of the original account, but Droysen's account is of the siege of Macedonian siege of the city of Tyre in 332 BC, not of a river crossing. Droysen cites an apparently anonymous ancient chronicler.] Aristotle describing “heavenly discs.” Pliny in his Natural History, Vol. 2, describes “burning shields” in the sky. [This is a reference to Pliny the Elder, Roman philosopher (23 AD to 79), and his encyclopedia [I]Naturalis Historiæ, which claims to cover all ancient knowledge.]
Hawaiian “akuatele” – “flying spirits.”
M.K. Jessup: author of The Case for the UFO's; work app. similar to Philadelphia Experiment, & became involved with Office of Naval Research; was app. “suicided” [after publicly re-vealing too much information on these military programs]. Theorized that ionized vacuums can destroy planes & ships.
Ref. to Apollo & Gemini missions' use of the term “bogeys,” etc.
Jessup theorized that gravity waves may exist along the 3rd axis after the 2 represented by electricity & magnetism operating at right angles from each other, & may be associated with pulsed magnetic fields. He said naval experiments along these lines resulted in the Philadelphia Experiment. Some involved were affected mentally, etc. [Morris Ketchum Jessup (1900–1959), American astronomer and amateur theoretical physicist most famous for his role as a UFOlogist and publicizer of the Philadelphia Experiment. He wrote books on UFOs including The Case for the UFO (1955) and UFOs and the Bible (1956). On April 19, 1959, Jessup contacted a Dr. Manson Valentine (the man who discovered the Bimini Wall in 1968; see the very end of the notes for the book Technology of the Gods), claiming to have made a major breakthrough regarding what is now called the Philadelphia Experiment, and arranging a meeting with him the following day. Jessup was found dead the next day in his car.]
Admiral Byrd told of finding green land & ice-free lakes while on his Antarctic mission in 1929, over [live] radio broadcast. The broadcast was abruptly cut off. [Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. (1888–1957), attended Virginia Military Institute and served in both world wars, though he is most famously remembered for his expeditionary missions to explore both of the poles by air.]
Myths similar to Noah: the Greek Deucalion; Baisbasbata of the Mahabharata; Babylonian Utna-pishtim; Yima of Iran; Coxcox of Mexico; Tezpi, also of Mexico; Bochica of Chibcha (Columbian) legend; Tamandere of S.A. [South America in general].
Greenland, California & Peru having sandy beaches pushed 100's of feet above sea level.
Ancient mass animal graves in elevated areas, as if they were forced to high ground & then all drowned: off Georgia coast, in Colombian Andes, China, Northern Europe, etc.
An app. sudden ~4000-ft. upheaval of the ocean floor near the Azores in the 1800's caused a transatlantic cable to break.
Canyons & river gorges that must be carved out above land extending beyond coasts into oceans, for ex. Delaware & Hudson rivers.
30-ft.-high, 100-mile-long undersea road leading away from the Orinoco near Venezuela.
Monolithic/“cyclopean” stonework similar to Stonehenge, Minoan Greece, & ancient Peru on the sea bottom near Bimini.
Enormous “tiled” road off US East Coast discovered by the submarine Aluminaut in 1967. [A relatively shallow continental shelf extends underwater for varying distances from the mainland of North America (similar to all continents of the world) before entering into the deeper waters of the Atlantic Ocean. This shallower area is where Aluminaut (built by the Reynolds Metal Company and contracted to the US Navy among other groups, from 1964 to 1970) discovered what was apparently a massive “tiled road.” The Aluminaut is currently on display at the Science Museum of Virginia in the city of Richmond.]
Plato wrote of an island beyond the Pillars of Hercules “larger than Libya and Asia put together” (Azores plateau?) [“Asia” in Plato's time was not the continent of Asia as we think of it today, but the area around what is now Israel and Syria, close by the shores of the Mediterranea.], & beyond that what “may be most truly called a continent” (North America?) which surrounds the “true ocean” (Atlantic?). Plato says that the Mediterranean “is only a harbor,” by comparison.
Columbus reported to have traveled with an ancient map of “Atlantis.”
Ref. to monolithic stones in Brittany weighing up to 340 tons. [This is a reference to the famous Carnac Stones, a dense cluster of megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac in Brittany.]
Ref. to Babel-like myth in the Americas before the Spanish arrived.
A white race on the Canary Islands, the Guanches,1 discovered & exterminated by the Spanish, & ref. to their language & subtle similarities/ common words between various languages spread across the planet.
J. A. Ullrich, professor of aerodynamics, saying that ancient gold plane-looking item was a model of a jet which could also withstand underwater travel, without realizing the item's origin (see graphic on the next page).
Mahabharata of ~1500 BC app. being recopied knowledge from more ancient times, also believed to describe the Aryan invasion of ancient India with futuristic-sounding weapons. [This is the invasion of white-skinned people into India in ancient times, now associated with the dispersion of the “Indo-Europeans” out of the region of the Caucasus (increasingly identified as the biblical Hittites), who seem to have also migrated into Northern Europe as the Celts and through Turkey to Greece. For more information, see the book notes for The Twelfth Planet.]
Antikythera device described as a “star-finder” for nocturnal navigation.
Greek & Roman passages have soot on their roofs from torches used for lighting, but ancient Egyptian subterranean passages have no such evidences, leaving the question of what the Egyptians actually used for lighting.
Piri Reis map, found in Turkey in 1929, & of ancient origin, showing Antarctica as it would look without ice & with depictions of mammals. It also demonstrates an out-of-place knowledge of advanced trigonometry & navigation.
King Jaime World Chart of 1502 showing the Saharan Desert with lakes, rivers & cities.
The Bauche World Map of 1737 showing Antarctica before its modern (re-)discovery, before it was covered with ice & showing the great inland sea that would then form over it, a fact re-established in 1968.
Other ancient maps show glacier extension during the Ice Age, etc.
Coptic Egyptians have a tradition that the Pyramids at Giza were constructed before an ancient flood to encapsulate knowledge for future generations. [This idea is similar to a prediction by modern author Drunvalo Melchizedek, who has stated that a remnant of an ancient civilization of Egypt is still living underground below the Pyramids and Sphinx, and are carrying on their ancient traditions until a time when they can return to the surface and return the lost knowledge to all of humanity. ]
Worldwide pyramids acting like acupuncture points for the planet.
“Cro-Magnons” may have had larger brains than modern man. [“Cro-Magnon” is the name given to certain remains found of “early modern humans,” though their relation to modern humans, and even the genetic relation of one set of “Cro-Magnon” remains to another, is often debated.]
Iron mine in Ngwenya, Lesotho [a nation in Africa, landlocked and completely surrounded by the country of South Africa], dating back 43,000 years. Stone tools in Iran 100,000 years ago. Copper mines in Michigan also thousands of years old. Nails in stones, etc., app. millions of years old by modern dating techniques. Also ancient depictions of dinosaurs, ie “T-Rex” near Grand Canyon, etc.
A “cut-and-set-stone” road was discovered in Kentucky underneath the remains of a mastodon.
“Atomic scars” found in Siberia, Iraq, Colorado, and Mongolia. [Compare with “Oppenheimer's Iron Thunderbolt” from the book notes for Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past, where evidence is noted of an app. ancient nuclear event in the region of the Great Lakes.] In southern Iraq in 1947, a site was excavated through Babylonian, Akkadian & Sumerian layers, then a farm culture of 6000-7000 BC. Below that, evidence of a “Magdalenian” culture circa 16,000 years ago, & finally a layer where sand had fused into glass (suggesting intense heat such as from a nuclear detonation).
Hopi myth: three previous worlds ended by (1) volcanoes & fire, (2) earthquakes & temporary spinning of the Earth off its axis, & (3) flooding & sinking of continents filled with war-loving cultures.
Ref. to Ivan Sanderson, & mention of transparent domes on the sea floor off the Spanish coast. [Ivan Sanderson (1911–1973) was a biologist from Scotland, studying at Cambridge. He served with British intelligence during WWII, in charge of counter-espionage against the Germans in the Caribbean, and later functioning as a press agent in New York. He wrote several books on paranormal subjects, in addition to his nature and travel writings.]
by Charles Berlitz
This book was first published in 1974 and was a controversial best-seller. The author, Charles Berlitz (1914 – 2003), is remembered not only for his books on the Bermuda Triangle (such as this one), Atlantis (The Mystery of Atlantis, 1969), and other books related to historical mysteries or strange phenomena, but also for his contributions to language-learning. During his childhood, his father had ordered that every member of their household speak to Charles in a different language, so that by the time he was an adolescent he spoke eight languages fluently. He also spent 13 years active duty in the US Army, primarily working in intelligence.
Notes from the book:
The 7th Coast Guard/Navy acknowledges a radar/magnetic anomaly in the area between Florida & the Bahamas.
A mention of app. columns off the coast of Peru, ~1 mile underwater. Much of the water around Florida & the Bahamas is on a shallow continental shelf, but there are also long, straight vertical cliffs dropping into extremely deep abysses.
There are strange lighting phenomena around the Bahamas, making long streaks of ocean seem to glow, which are called “white water.” Columbus recorded seeing this, & also the astronauts of Apollo 12, which they said were the last lights visible to them from Earth.
A reference to Edgar Cayce's reading that “Atlanteans used crystals as a power source” in the Bimini area, & that Atlantis sunk into the ocean in this same area.
A very disproportionate number of unexplained & anomalous disappearances of planes & ships and/or their crews have occurred in this same area, noticed throughout history but particularly after WW2, with the disappearances of 5 aircraft performing an exercise & then a search plane also. [This is a reference to Flight 19, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on Dec. 5, 1945. They were on an overwater navigation training exercise based out of the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. None of the 14 men involved were ever found. A search plane, a PBM Mariner flying boat, also disappeared, and after an investigation was declared to have exploded mid-air.] Some reports of radio transmissions before their disappearance include mention of “white water,” that the ocean didn't look right, & one possible (censored) comment, “Don't come after me... They look like they are from outer space.” Like many such dis-appearances, nothing was ever found.
The Sargasso Sea is also known for dis-appearances, located roughly 37ºN to 27ºS & 75ºW to 40ºW, with shallow waters characteristically stagnant of currents & filled with seaweed on its surface. The Hatteras & Nares Abyssal plains are under it. It extends from the North Atlantic Ridge to within about 200 miles of eastern North American coasts. The Carthaginian admiral Himilco wrote an app. description of it around 500 BC, & mention is also made of Carthaginian & Phoenician artifacts being found in the Americas. The author writes that the Carthaginians had a mandatory death sentence for anyone who betrayed their routes or even presence on the Atlantic, beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). The presumption is that these earlier sailors wanted to protect trade routes & the economic benefits thereof.
Plato in his dialogue Critias quotes an Egyptian priest telling the Athenian lawgiver Solon that the Greeks remember only one deluge, while there have been many of them; also that “at the usual period, the stream from heaven descends like a pestilence…and thus you have to begin all over again as children.” Ancient Indian legends are said to tell of 9 “crises.”
European & American eels both take months to swim out in shoals to the Sargasso Sea to breed at a great depth, & then die. The newborns then begin a return journey to wherever their parents came from. This has led some to believe that the eels have a common ancestral home at what was once a continental river, now sunk in the Atlantic.
Pilots & sailors who have survived “near-misses” in the Bermuda area have repeatedly described a force pulling [their craft] into the water. Dick Stern, leaving for Italy in Dec. 1944 with a group of 7 bombers had his plane experience “clear air turbulence” & rapidly plummet towards the sea. He was forced to return to base, where he learned that 5 of the 7 bombers had disappeared without so much as radio communication, & were never found. Boats have also been suddenly sucked under, including Joe Talley's Wild Goose as it was being towed [by another ship]. A Captain Don Henry was towing another boat in 1966 with a 2000 HP vessel when he had an odd experience that caused his generators to lose power even as they still ran, his compass spin clockwise, & the sky, sea & horizon to become somehow indistinguishable. When he got out of this, from the outside of it looking back, it appeared to be a thick fog on otherwise clear waters. He said he had heard that at the St. Lawrence River in Kingston compasses will also spin in circles.
Directly east of Andros Island is the Tongue of the Ocean: “a precipitous drop-off,” extremely deep, within the Bahama area, associated with many disappearances & EM anomalies. When the surrounding shelf was above water (presumably during the Ice Age), this area would have been the great inland bay, of great depth, discussed by other authors for possibly being the inland bay of Atlantis [as described by Plato].
The Devil's Sea, off the coast of Japan, is also known for unusual EM activity & disappearances, is at 150ºE, the exact opposite side of Earth from 80ºW (the Bermuda Triangle).
Ref. to Ivan Sanderson's theory of 12 geometric points on Earth exhibiting similar activities, [at] every 30º latitude & the poles.
A UFO account by Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt. [Thutmose III (also rendered as “Thutmosis” or “Tuthmosis”) was Pharaoh of Egypt for 54 years, from 1479 BC to 1425 BC, according to modern mainstream archaeologists.] Alexander the Great's UFO account of 329 BC, while crossing into India. [This story has appeared in several books, but the original classical historian to whom it is supposed to have originally came is unclear. This account is also given as happening in 332 BC according to some sources. The German historian Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884) is cited by at least one author as the source of the original account, but Droysen's account is of the siege of Macedonian siege of the city of Tyre in 332 BC, not of a river crossing. Droysen cites an apparently anonymous ancient chronicler.] Aristotle describing “heavenly discs.” Pliny in his Natural History, Vol. 2, describes “burning shields” in the sky. [This is a reference to Pliny the Elder, Roman philosopher (23 AD to 79), and his encyclopedia [I]Naturalis Historiæ, which claims to cover all ancient knowledge.]
Hawaiian “akuatele” – “flying spirits.”
M.K. Jessup: author of The Case for the UFO's; work app. similar to Philadelphia Experiment, & became involved with Office of Naval Research; was app. “suicided” [after publicly re-vealing too much information on these military programs]. Theorized that ionized vacuums can destroy planes & ships.
Ref. to Apollo & Gemini missions' use of the term “bogeys,” etc.
Jessup theorized that gravity waves may exist along the 3rd axis after the 2 represented by electricity & magnetism operating at right angles from each other, & may be associated with pulsed magnetic fields. He said naval experiments along these lines resulted in the Philadelphia Experiment. Some involved were affected mentally, etc. [Morris Ketchum Jessup (1900–1959), American astronomer and amateur theoretical physicist most famous for his role as a UFOlogist and publicizer of the Philadelphia Experiment. He wrote books on UFOs including The Case for the UFO (1955) and UFOs and the Bible (1956). On April 19, 1959, Jessup contacted a Dr. Manson Valentine (the man who discovered the Bimini Wall in 1968; see the very end of the notes for the book Technology of the Gods), claiming to have made a major breakthrough regarding what is now called the Philadelphia Experiment, and arranging a meeting with him the following day. Jessup was found dead the next day in his car.]
Admiral Byrd told of finding green land & ice-free lakes while on his Antarctic mission in 1929, over [live] radio broadcast. The broadcast was abruptly cut off. [Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. (1888–1957), attended Virginia Military Institute and served in both world wars, though he is most famously remembered for his expeditionary missions to explore both of the poles by air.]
Myths similar to Noah: the Greek Deucalion; Baisbasbata of the Mahabharata; Babylonian Utna-pishtim; Yima of Iran; Coxcox of Mexico; Tezpi, also of Mexico; Bochica of Chibcha (Columbian) legend; Tamandere of S.A. [South America in general].
Greenland, California & Peru having sandy beaches pushed 100's of feet above sea level.
Ancient mass animal graves in elevated areas, as if they were forced to high ground & then all drowned: off Georgia coast, in Colombian Andes, China, Northern Europe, etc.
An app. sudden ~4000-ft. upheaval of the ocean floor near the Azores in the 1800's caused a transatlantic cable to break.
Canyons & river gorges that must be carved out above land extending beyond coasts into oceans, for ex. Delaware & Hudson rivers.
30-ft.-high, 100-mile-long undersea road leading away from the Orinoco near Venezuela.
Monolithic/“cyclopean” stonework similar to Stonehenge, Minoan Greece, & ancient Peru on the sea bottom near Bimini.
Enormous “tiled” road off US East Coast discovered by the submarine Aluminaut in 1967. [A relatively shallow continental shelf extends underwater for varying distances from the mainland of North America (similar to all continents of the world) before entering into the deeper waters of the Atlantic Ocean. This shallower area is where Aluminaut (built by the Reynolds Metal Company and contracted to the US Navy among other groups, from 1964 to 1970) discovered what was apparently a massive “tiled road.” The Aluminaut is currently on display at the Science Museum of Virginia in the city of Richmond.]
Plato wrote of an island beyond the Pillars of Hercules “larger than Libya and Asia put together” (Azores plateau?) [“Asia” in Plato's time was not the continent of Asia as we think of it today, but the area around what is now Israel and Syria, close by the shores of the Mediterranea.], & beyond that what “may be most truly called a continent” (North America?) which surrounds the “true ocean” (Atlantic?). Plato says that the Mediterranean “is only a harbor,” by comparison.
Columbus reported to have traveled with an ancient map of “Atlantis.”
Ref. to monolithic stones in Brittany weighing up to 340 tons. [This is a reference to the famous Carnac Stones, a dense cluster of megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac in Brittany.]
Ref. to Babel-like myth in the Americas before the Spanish arrived.
A white race on the Canary Islands, the Guanches,1 discovered & exterminated by the Spanish, & ref. to their language & subtle similarities/ common words between various languages spread across the planet.
J. A. Ullrich, professor of aerodynamics, saying that ancient gold plane-looking item was a model of a jet which could also withstand underwater travel, without realizing the item's origin (see graphic on the next page).
Mahabharata of ~1500 BC app. being recopied knowledge from more ancient times, also believed to describe the Aryan invasion of ancient India with futuristic-sounding weapons. [This is the invasion of white-skinned people into India in ancient times, now associated with the dispersion of the “Indo-Europeans” out of the region of the Caucasus (increasingly identified as the biblical Hittites), who seem to have also migrated into Northern Europe as the Celts and through Turkey to Greece. For more information, see the book notes for The Twelfth Planet.]
Antikythera device described as a “star-finder” for nocturnal navigation.
Greek & Roman passages have soot on their roofs from torches used for lighting, but ancient Egyptian subterranean passages have no such evidences, leaving the question of what the Egyptians actually used for lighting.
Piri Reis map, found in Turkey in 1929, & of ancient origin, showing Antarctica as it would look without ice & with depictions of mammals. It also demonstrates an out-of-place knowledge of advanced trigonometry & navigation.
King Jaime World Chart of 1502 showing the Saharan Desert with lakes, rivers & cities.
The Bauche World Map of 1737 showing Antarctica before its modern (re-)discovery, before it was covered with ice & showing the great inland sea that would then form over it, a fact re-established in 1968.
Other ancient maps show glacier extension during the Ice Age, etc.
Coptic Egyptians have a tradition that the Pyramids at Giza were constructed before an ancient flood to encapsulate knowledge for future generations. [This idea is similar to a prediction by modern author Drunvalo Melchizedek, who has stated that a remnant of an ancient civilization of Egypt is still living underground below the Pyramids and Sphinx, and are carrying on their ancient traditions until a time when they can return to the surface and return the lost knowledge to all of humanity. ]
Worldwide pyramids acting like acupuncture points for the planet.
“Cro-Magnons” may have had larger brains than modern man. [“Cro-Magnon” is the name given to certain remains found of “early modern humans,” though their relation to modern humans, and even the genetic relation of one set of “Cro-Magnon” remains to another, is often debated.]
Iron mine in Ngwenya, Lesotho [a nation in Africa, landlocked and completely surrounded by the country of South Africa], dating back 43,000 years. Stone tools in Iran 100,000 years ago. Copper mines in Michigan also thousands of years old. Nails in stones, etc., app. millions of years old by modern dating techniques. Also ancient depictions of dinosaurs, ie “T-Rex” near Grand Canyon, etc.
A “cut-and-set-stone” road was discovered in Kentucky underneath the remains of a mastodon.
“Atomic scars” found in Siberia, Iraq, Colorado, and Mongolia. [Compare with “Oppenheimer's Iron Thunderbolt” from the book notes for Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past, where evidence is noted of an app. ancient nuclear event in the region of the Great Lakes.] In southern Iraq in 1947, a site was excavated through Babylonian, Akkadian & Sumerian layers, then a farm culture of 6000-7000 BC. Below that, evidence of a “Magdalenian” culture circa 16,000 years ago, & finally a layer where sand had fused into glass (suggesting intense heat such as from a nuclear detonation).
Hopi myth: three previous worlds ended by (1) volcanoes & fire, (2) earthquakes & temporary spinning of the Earth off its axis, & (3) flooding & sinking of continents filled with war-loving cultures.
Ref. to Ivan Sanderson, & mention of transparent domes on the sea floor off the Spanish coast. [Ivan Sanderson (1911–1973) was a biologist from Scotland, studying at Cambridge. He served with British intelligence during WWII, in charge of counter-espionage against the Germans in the Caribbean, and later functioning as a press agent in New York. He wrote several books on paranormal subjects, in addition to his nature and travel writings.]