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was easy for anyone to tell 96 hours in important building program is to be car- advance when an earthquake was com- ried out, including federal, state, county ing, because the needle on a compass and city building, there is little probabil- would become demagnetised and refuse ity of any further excavations." This is to point north. really not a true statement because it is By the beginning of February 1934, necessary to excavate many hundreds of the first shaft had reached a depth feet into the ground before a high-rise greater than 250 feet and was still being building can be constructed. Also, one dug, despite difficulty caused by the should consider that sewage systems are water encountered in its path. Several all underground. And let's not forget the newspaper articles featured updates on new Metro Rail System, which rises up the project. Shortly after all the media from many feet below the Civic Center attention was focused on this search for before it speeds commuters om-their the lost city under L.A., the project was way. Long ago even the Chinese dug suddenly stopped and abandoned. On -tunnels around the area which is now the 5th March 1934, the shafts had been train yard. These red brick subsurface filled in and the contract with the city tunnels were used for their safe passage was cancelled. Neither gold nor any from one end of Old Chinatown to the other treasure was ever turned over to other and are now an historic landmark the County of Los Angeles. found preserved at Alvera Street. Mr Arche Dunning of the Los Angeles It is quite possible that there is anoth- Chamber of Commerce stated in er city below the L.A. Civic Center December of 1947 that, “It is quite pos- which only a small number of people sible, of course, that the supposed have access to. The question is, who? labyrinth really exists. But in view of (Source: Unicus magazine 2/92, 1142 the fact that the overlaying area is the Manhattan Avenue, Suite 43, Manhattan immediate Civic Center area where an Beach, CA 90266, USA) were believed to contain the records of the origins of the human race, and the history of modern man in the Americas, including details regarding the history of the mysterious Mayan people. Shufelt's radio-wave machine mapped the rooms and tunnels as subsurface voids, with the gold slabs as dark areas, showing perfect geometric angles. The rooms, seven of which occurred within an area of six square city blocks, varied in size from 23' x 23' to 34’ x 42. The room below the first shaft was 31‘ x 42’, and the key room was the smallest. Water had seeped into some of the tun- nels, and several of the rooms including the largest were flooded. Shufelt was prepared to use divers to explore the submerged areas when they finally broke into the subterranean city. Chief Little Green Leaf claimed that the “Lizard People" had been able to predict earthquakes and that he had also been able to do so. He had accurately predicted the destruction of the Long Beach quake on 10th March 1933, a month in advance. He believed that it APRIL - MAY 1994 NEXUS¢61 —————— — =— = = —S = = a SS SS