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they were connected to the older ruins gave their Reference: - of an even gresicr city which was cov- warning that it Walton, Bruce, Mount Shasta, Home of the Ancients, Health ered by the Pacific Ocean thousands of was time to Research, Mokelumne Hill, California, 1985. years ago during a tremendous earth- enter the shel- quake and subsequent flood. The sub- ters and seal a a . terranean complex he had discovered the shafts TEXX r om waren AS arinsy — figoun > ‘ was used for emergencies and was only behind them- GEN KEY Angeles, designed to accommodate 5,000 people selves. They ° or less. Food supplies of imperishable were forced to Se fesse hwy herbs were stored in sufficient quantitics go under- OR oSiomre Shufelt which would enable the survivors to ground to save Ya believed to be the lost city of gold dug” 5,000 years ago by the “Lizard People". live underground until it was safe to themselves come back to the surface. Valuable per- from a gigan- sonal belongings and utensils were also tic meteor brought into the complex along with shower which historical records and gold treasures. devastated During his research, he met a Hopi most of the Indian named Chief Little Green Leaf, west coast of who told him about the legend of an the US. The ancient race of "Lizard People”. The "Lizard People" of Los Angeles sur- approved a contract with Rex legends said that about 4,000 to 5,000 vived the meteor shower, but were McCreary, Warren Shufelt and Ray years ago, an enormous meteor shower killed by natural gas leaking into their Martin to search for buried treasure fell on the western coast covering an bunkers. Shufelt believed that they had there. The permittees were to bear all area hundreds of miles wide. Winslow built 13 such underground facilities in expenses, to leave the property in its crater in northem Arizona is only one of different areas for such a purpose. One original condition, and to share 50% of the pieces that fell from the sky at that was located in the eastern section of all discoveries and treasure with the city time. Thousands of people were killed, Arizona in a small town called of L.A. The county originally only their crops wiped out, dwellings Springerville and was only discovered allowed them to dig up to depths of 50 destroyed, and the forests set on fire. recently. Another was located under a feet for fear of cave-ins. The surviving members of the medicine hill which was surrounded by a curving On 27th March 1933 they requested lodge, which had remained on the west ridge of mountains like the middle of a additional time and depths on their per- coast, met to make plans for construct- horse's hoof. This is exactly the type of mit, believing that the labyrinth of tun- ing safe areas. The sentinels of the sky terrain seen in downtown L.A. in the nels was at Icast 1,900 feet in length, area that is now the with rooms containing 9,000 square fect Board of Education, which contained valuable gold treasure which is built over in at least 16 places. On 10th April the ruins of the old 1933 the contract was renewed. By the Willis Estate on top end of November in 1933, the main of Fort Moore hill. shaft was at a depth of 200 feet. Shufelt Shufelt and his was determined to drill to a depth of partner Chief Little 1,000 feet if necessary. On 29th January Green Leaf were 1934, the first stories regarding the leg- both convinced that end of the "Lost Land of the Lizard the ancient legends People” made the L.A. newspapers. By and the readings this time, one of the five shafts was from Shufelt's mys- already 250 feet deep. tery machine were According to the legend and the radio true. They decided surveys, the underground city was laid to obtain a permit to out in the shape of a lizard, with its tail sink a shaft down under the Main Library at Fifth and into the ruins of the Hope, and the body extending north- subterranean city. east, with the head being at Lookout and They located a Marda near North Broadway. The key vacant lot at 518 room to the city was located under North Hill Street, Second and South Broadway. The leg- directly above one of _ ends state that the key room is the direc- the largest rooms. tory to the rest of the city, and to the On 21st February historical gold record tablets. These 1933, the County gold tablets were slabs of gold, 4 feet Board of Supervisors long and 14 inches wide. The tablets “~ ~~ ake ale we Ne Sow rilh APRIL - MAY 1994 60¢NEXUS