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History and folklore both have parallels. Folklore is filled with down through secret, twisting tunnels and deep caverns to the "dark men", "men dressed in black" and "grim reapers", often Mohorovicic layer, which itself is an anomalous cavern region identified in previous centuries as sorcerers, demons, warlocks or deep beneath the upper crust. other "servants of the Devil"—and, of course, the odour of sul- What if there is an unknown world beneath our feet—a world phur and brimstone was a trademark of his from way back. that is dependent upon the biodiversity and genetic wealth on the During the plague years of the Middle Ages, entities resembling Earth's surface; a world that has been exploiting that wealth for both MIB and the now-standard grey aliens were often seen in thousands or millions of years, victimising the ignorant savages areas that would shortly thereafter be stricken with an outbreak of | who roam the face of the sunlit world? Or could all of the evi- the dreaded disease. On the eve of dence be circumstantial and without major events throughout history, people merit, simply a misinterpreted conglom- have repeatedly seen or been harassed . . eration of coincidence and misidentified by such beings. What if there is an unknown animals, natural phenomena and arche- As Keel points out in Disneyland of types from the human collective uncon- the Gods and his other excellent books, world beneath our feet— sciousness? The critic could toss in an Julius Caesar, Napoleon and even a world that is dependent endless supply of overactive imagina- Malcolm X all reported encounters with . . . tions down through the millennia, but this variety of tenn fying being. Hitler upon the biodiversity and the evidence—-dating back as it does for also was alleged to have had his share genetic wealth on the thousands of years of human traditions of midnight visits from a mysterious ' and continuing right up through the pre- "Tibetan", and through him to have met Earth S surface...? sent day—says otherwise. "the New Man"—a sort of super-Aryan who he believed came from the interior of the Earth, and of whom he was most The reptilian, vampiric, robotic and demonic are all characteristics which have been attributed to underworld afraid. beings down through the ages. They have haunted mankind's How much fear, confusion and human suffering can be traced imagination and nightmares since our most remote time. These to uncanny visits from these "robotic yet human" agents provoca - _“archetypal" images speak to us of supernatural terrors and mys- teurs? Where are they from, who do they work for, and what is teries; but what if, instead, these beings are natural and technolog- their long-term agenda? Could it be that their goal is to generate ically advanced to a degree that only until recently has been confusion and divisions, to keep humanity "looking upwards" for beyond our comprehension and therefore considered "magical" or an invasion that will never come? The "invaders" may already be impossible in their level of sophistication? If the latter is the case, ere, and may have been here all along. The evidence is in the then we would do well as a species to become more aware not folklore, religions, myths, literature and archetypes of humankind. only of our own planet but also of our mythic and folkloric her- Perhaps they're not "extraterrestrial" but "intraterrestrial", and per- itage, for it speaks not of a symbiosis but of a nearly invisible haps there's a vast, unknown world beneath our feet, stretching "parasite" dwelling in the depths. oo 13. Folktales of Norway, edited by Reidar Viking Penguin, 1985. Richard S. Shaver), Amherst Press, 1975. Christiansen, translated by Pat Shaw Iversen, 25. "That Old Time Choctaw Religion", by 37. Architects of the Underworld, by Bruce University of Chicago Press, 1968. Len Green, Bishinik Magazine, June 1979. Rux, Frog Ltd, 1996. 14. Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend, 26. "Origins of the Choctaw People Retold 38. 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Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry and 30. Unexplained!, by Jerome Clark, Visible Charles Edwin Price, The Overmountain Romance, by Charles Squire, Bell Publishing Ink Press, 1999. Press, 1994. Co., 1979. 31. Sasquatch/Bigfoot, by Don Hunter and 42. Disneyland of the Gods, by John A. Keel, 19. Gods and Myths of the Viking Age, by H. Rene Dahinden, McClelland & Stewart, 1993, _ IIluminet Press, USA, 1995. R. Ellis Davidson, Bell Publishing Co., 1981. revised edition. 43. Our Haunted Planet, by John A. Keel, 20. Passing Strange: True Tales of New 32. The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Galde Press, 1999. England Hauntings and Horrors, by Joseph Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, by Loren 44. The Mothman Prophecies, by John A. A. Citro, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, Avon Books, Keel, Illuminet Press, 1991. 21. Myth and Mankind: Gods of Sun and 1999. 45. Operation Trojan Horse, by John A. Sacrifice — Aztec & Maya Myth, Time-Life 33. Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth, by Keel, G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1970. Books, 1997. Timothy Green Beckley, Inner Light 46. Casebook on the Men in Black, by Jim 22. American Indian Myths and Mysteries, by _ Productions, 1992. Keith, Illuminet Press, 1997. Vincent H. Gaddis, Indian Head Books, New 34. Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth,by 47. Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel, York, 1992. David Hatcher Childress and Richard S. New American Library, Mentor Books, 1963. 23. Popol Vuh, translated by Dennis Tedlock, | Shaver, Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999. Simon & Schuster, 1985. 35. Subterranean Worlds, by Walter Kafton- Bibliography of Fiction Sources 24. Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Minkel, Loompanics Unlimited, 1989. All fiction sources are referenced within the Lost Civilization, by Charles Gallenkamp, 36. The Secret World, by Ray Palmer (with body of the treatise. a world that is dependent upon the biodiversity and genetic wealth on the Earth's surface...? Bibliography of Fiction Sources All fiction sources are referenced within the body of the treatise. 64 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2001 What if there is an unknown world beneath our feet— www.nexusmagazine.com