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LOST LAND OF THE LIZARD PEOPLE by Robert Stanley In the summer and fall of 1933, a Los Angeles mining engineer named G. Warren Shufelt was surveying the L.A. area for deposits of oil, gold and other valuable materials, using a new device which he had invented. Shufelt had designed and built a radio-directed apparatus which he claimed was able to locate gold and other precious resources at great depths. He believed that the radio device worked on a newly discov ered principle involving electrical ,simi larities owMatter which had the same chemical, physical and vibrational char acter. His device appeared to consist of a large pendulum suspended in a cylin drical glass case which was housed in a black box with compasses on it. The pendulum would trace a hne directly from a piece of ore broken from a vein to thr-vein it was originally taken from. Hair taken from a test subject would lead investigators to the person who had donated ihe hair sample. It was said to have worked even at a distance of many miles." Arlthough he would not tell exactl~ what was in the box, Shl1felt APRIL -MAY 1994 believed that by tuning into the individ ual frequency of a particular material, he could locate similar m.atter. He believed that the emanational and gravi tational factors of matter influenced the pendulum and that, in principle, no two 'separate things were exactly alike. Shufelt was extremely puzzled when one day, while taking readings near downtown Los Angefes, his instruments showed him what seemed to be a pattern of wnoels which led from what is now the Public Library in Ithe heart of L.A. 110 the top of M0 u n t Washington and tthe Southwest Museum to the north in Pasadena. He proceeded to draw a map and had ,it copyright ed. What he dis covered appeared s to be a well-planned underground labyrinth with large rooms located at various points, and deposits of apparent ly man-made gold in the chambers and passageways. Some of the tunnels ran west for 20 miles under the Santa Monica Bay, which he believed were only used for ventilation. Unfortunately, Shufelt had no idea that NEXUS-59