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inhabited by two ancient races which had originally been one, which he termed "dero", for "detrimental robot" ("degenerate" would have been more accurate), and "tero", for "integrative energy robot" (the "good guys"). According to the welder-turned-writer, he had not only been contacted and tormented by the beams of these beings but he had been "helped" by the tero in defeating the assaults of the dero and had actually been in the cav- ern-world himself. Readers responded to Shaver's accounts in two ways: they either reviled and ridiculed him and his "underworld", which was often depicted as sexually and violently brutal; or they wrote in with letters of support and accounts of their own, in an effort to corrobo- rate his stories! Ultimately, "the Shaver Mystery", as it was called, drove Ray Palmer from Amazing Stories and into business for A curious "picture rock", one of many images "brought out" by Richard S. Shaver. himself, and generated an uproar (and an income) for both Palmer and Shaver that would last, to some and attacks, and throughout the ordeal, which spanned many degree, until both of their deaths in the 1970s. years, spoke to, sang for and reviled the Bell family. The activi- Was Richard Shaver unbalanced and delusional, or was he ties of this entity were witnesses by hundreds of people, including simply a talented and outrageous storyteller? Or was he telling Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. stories which were half truth, half confabulation? In his youth he Only now, in our "modern" age, is it noticed that at first the had spent some time in a mental hospital, a fact which generated "voice" of the "witch" was booming, hollow and metallic, only contempt and ridicule from others throughout his life, but later and after considerable practice taking on a regular, well- wouldn't actual, repeated contact by such beings as his "dero" modulated tone; and the origin of the thing was said to be in the push even a strong mind over the edge and into partial delusion? "Bell Witch Cave", a deep and mostly uncharted cavern system "Confabulation" is one common reaction which the human mind that was at that time on the Bell family property. The "witch" uses as a defence mechanism when it itself claimed that the cave was its is hiding a traumatic event from full . home, and forbade anyone to enter recollection. Shaver claimed that many rocks ff there. Local Native Americans had rainanacy me fceetton ct | and boulders in specific regions wel cc ad surane o Shaver's choice of words to describe around the world are actually first white settlers arrived. To this day, his ee eo toon interest great shattered libraries of witnesses swear that the ur ing. ile "fleshly" and possessed o! . +s unplumbed cavern system is haunte animalistic lusts, the dero and tero are ancient crystals, containing and even guarded by the same evil nevertheless "programmed" victims, three-dimensional images or being. to a greater or lesser degree, of "harmful" or "de" (destructive, degen- A terrible story, indeed, and sure to engender fear and foreboding; perhaps erate, etc., according to Shaver) think- the perfect type of story to make certain ing. He attributed the degeneration of that a short and direct route to some the subterraneans to damaging solar and cosmic radiation (from underworld lair, loaded with "special effects" equipment or hologram records. which they still hide underground) and to the destructive radia- "mech", is not tried or violated... Spelunkers and other brave tions of their own "stim" (sexual and other stimulation) machines. souls have yet to seriously attempt to explore the "Bell Witch They kidnap surface humans, particularly women, for sexual plea- Cave" deep cavern system. It looks like the project may have sure (or procreation?), eat human beings and take great delight in achieved its desired goal of keeping people out, after all. causing mayhem, destruction, confusion and terrifying apparitions As evidence of his obsession with proving the veracity of his (holograms) in the surface world. stories, Richard S. Shaver was one of the few "contactees" by As an aside and interjection, Shaver's claims of the abilities of | "alien" or nonhuman forces to make an effort to produce physical dero machinery would explain many additional mysteries which evidence. He claimed that many rocks and boulders in specific have not been examined here so far. To touch on just one exam- regions around the world are actually great shattered libraries of ple would be to examine the case of "the Bell Witch" of ancient crystals, containing three-dimensional images or holo- Robertson County, Tennessee, a malevolent and violent entity gram records. which terrorised a family in the early 1800s. The Bell Witch, so- To prove this point, in later years he took to finding such "pic- called because "she" haunted the Bell family, went to great ture rocks" and cutting them open with a rock-saw to reveal what lengths to create the illusion that she was omnipresent and omni- he said were glimpses of the ancient records. He would use paint scient, although she was fooled and eluded upon several occasions to accentuate or "bring out" these images, but only worked along by her victims. Beginning with standard "poltergeist" activities, Continued on page 84 the "spirit" worked its way up to invisibly dealt physical blows and boulders in specific regions around the world are actually great shattered libraries of ancient crystals, containing three-dimensional images or hologram records. APRIL — MAY 2001 NEXUS * 63 A curious "picture rock", one of many images "brought out" by Richard S. Shaver. Shaver claimed that many rocks Continued on page 84 www.nexusmagazine.com