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TALES FROM THE YUKON TERRITORY one which has definite connections to UFOs. I once had the opportunity to show a picture of a Pleiadian-style UFO to a man from Bhutan (near Tibet) and asked if he had ever seen such a thing. He replied that yes, they did see them often and that they were called "Friendly Dragon". Chatsworth is located in Los Angeles County near the north-west border of the city and county lines. It is likely that a Chinese labourer lost this artifact while working in Chatsworth on railroad con- struction, around the turn of the century. There is a railroad tunnel that was cut by the Chinese through a solid red rock ridge called the Santa Suzana Pass near the Chatsworth Lake. Old Chinatown is located in downtown Los Angeles and was built where the new rail-yard now sits. New Chinatown is built over much of the old tunnel systems that the first Chinese leaders had constructed for their ‘safety’ when they first arrived in the area. It is possible that engineer/inven- tor G. W. Shufelt did not know what he had stumbled onto electronically, and it is also logical that Chinese people would not TALES FROM THE YUKON admit to the existence of a secure system of TERRITORY tunnels and rooms they had worked so hard By Harold T. Wilkins to build in secret. There may even have In the Supai canyon of Arizona, an — existed a series of older tunnels and rooms American scientific expedition discovered, that the Chinese discovered during their in 1924, remarkable pictographs of own excavations and construction. unknown and extremely ancient origin, cut However, the Federal Government definite- through the iron scale on red sandstone, ly stepped in during the '50s and took con- which depicted the most dreadful of all the trol of the entire underground tunnel sys- dinosaurs: the terrible camivorous tyran- tem for their Cold War operations, adding nosaurus. All this leads us, by way of pref- many new paranoid-influenced improve- ace, to certain queer stories told by trappers ments over the years that followed. Inthe in northern British Columbia,-gold "90s, suspicious arson fires prevented well- prospectors and old sourdoughs in the equipped ONI intelligence operatives from ~Yukon territory of Canada's North-West, gaining access to the secret entrance that and Alaska. was located in the basement of the so- As long ago as 1887, an American engi- called ‘public’ library. There is more to this meer from Washington, DC, Mr H. von story than can be told at this time. Beyer, was staying at Port Townsend, Take care, and keep up the great work Puget Sound, Washington territory, when a with NEXUS. mysterious rumour spread around about a Sincerely, monstrous animal seen in the interior of Robert Stanley Alaska. The story had probably reached Editor, Unicus Magazine Puget Sound from some trading steamship 1142 Manhattan Avenue, Suite 43 arrived from Sitka. White folk at Port Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, USA, Townsend told von Beyer that Indians had gone into Alaska and had taken the trail up the Yukon River. At a point a great way up into the interior, the Indians had seen strange tracks on the ground. They fol- lowed this spoor for many miles, and final- ly came in sight of strange hairy animals of immense size and unknown species. The Indians were scared at the enormous girth of these animals whose tracks were described as following a circular route. The story had passed through many mouths and von Beyer doubted it. He suspected it had come from some Vancouver Island Indians who had taken a long journey north by sea. (It may here be noted that the Iroquois Indians of New York state and of easten Canada have old traditions about a huge animal that travelled in circles in days long before white men discovered Canada). However, in 1905, another and remark- able story appeared in the scientific journal published in Paris, France. It purported to relate the adventures of one Georges Dupuy, a French traveller, a banker of San Francisco, a French-Canadian mission priest, and an American gold hunter and fossicker at an Indian village called Armstrong Creek, located near the McQuesten River in the Yukon territory. This river flows through marshy tundras and alongside hills located between the 138 and 136 meridians, some 100 miles east of JUNE - JULY 1994 60¢NEXUS