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Roswell and the Hollow
Earth
Staffers at the White Sands public affairs office know the truth of what happened at
Roswell 50 years ago but few people listen. Every year the office receives unsolicited
letters from people all over the world. They claim to know such things as where gold is
hidden on the missile range, what the aliens are really up to and who is running the
government conspiracy of the day. One such letter arrived in early 1991 from Memphis,
Tenn. which blew the lid off the typical UFO theories. The author says that when the earth
was formed it ended up being hollow. He says the crust we operate on is only 800 miles
thick and the rest of the globe is mostly empty space. Floating in the center of this
cavity is a miniature sun. He goes on to explain that the center of the earth is inhabited
and is complete with oceans of water and landmasses. At the earth's poles are huge
openings into this inner world. He says they are more than 1,000 miles in diameter and
there is a constant exchange of air between the outer and inner worlds. He says ordinary
people are not aware of these huge openings because they are usually covered with clouds
and the governments of the world have conspired to hide the information. Like most
conspiracy theorists, this author says the governments are worried that if people know
about this other world everyone will run jabbering into the streets and civilization will
crumble. The writer proposes that the northern lights we see are not caused by solar
energy interacting with the upper atmosphere but is light escaping from the center of the
earth through the polar openings. Eventually the author gets around to explaining how all
this relates to Roswell. He says that when the surface inhabitants starting exploding
atomic weapons on July 16, 1945, the inner inhabitants got concerned. With more testing in
the years following the end of World War II they grew worried about radioactive fallout
suspended in the air which was ventilating the center of the earth. So they started flying
through the openings at the poles to investigate what was going on here. This explains the
supposed appearance of UFOs following the war. Apparently one of these vehicles crashed
near Roswell killing the flight crew and leaving proof that these "molemen"
really exist.
click on map for larger version
above is an Arctic map from 1947, the white parts showing
areas not yet explored at the time.
Richard Shaver
In the March, 1945 issue of Amazing Stories Editor Ray Palmer introduced the Shaver
Mystery, a purported "racial memory" of a young welder named Richard Shaver, who
first claimed to have remembered a life in the caves, then, later, maintained that he had
recently been in the vast underground civilization of cave-dwellers. Life magazine (May
21, 1951) called the Shaver Mystery ". . . the most celebrated rumpus that ever
racked the science fiction world." Richard Shaver, however, has never called his
accounts anything other than factual reportage.
It is Richard Shaver's contention that in prehistoric times, when our solar system was
young, Earth was inhabited by a race of cosmic super-beings who had come here from another
solar system. Although the Elder Race were not truly immortals, they had discovered
secrets of incredible longevity. This, together with their highly developed scientific
technology, caused them to be regarded as gods by the primitive and unsophisticated
humans. The Elder Race possessed fantastic mechanical devices, which Shaver calls
"mech," capable of projecting three-dimensional images, scanning over great
distances, curing diseases, producing food and clothing, and killing and destroying life
when necessary.
After a time the Elder Race, the Titans, began to notice that the once beneficent sun now
contained detrimental rays which were shortening their life-span by causing premature
aging. To escape the harmful rays of the sun, the Elder Race entered deep underground
caverns and began carving a fantastic subterranean kingdom, using their ray guns to
disintegrate rock. Soon they had constructed powerful machines which could duplicate the
health-giving rays of the sun while excluding the detrimental radioactivity.
Homo sapiens continued to evolve in the sun, ignorant of the rays which shortened his life-span, and puzzled by the withdrawal of his gods. However, Shaver tells his readers, the Elder Race was not without its sensualists, and certain of its members, particularly the lesser ones, varied greatly in morality and intelligence.
Perhaps the majority of the Elder Race regarded their lesser evolved human cousins with the superiority and ill-concealed contempt that a pompous research scientist might feel walking amongst stone age aborigines. Others may have exploited the females of Homo sapiens and may even have set the barbaric tribes against each other for the perverse pleasure of the Elder Race, who may have openly rooted for, and secretly assisted, their favorite tribes and warriors. The more humane among the Elder Race did their best to assist the primitive humans to develop a more functional culture and technology. According to Shaver, the ancient myths and legends are the unsophisticated surface dwellers' version of the myriad activities of the Elder Race.
After a time, the Shaver Mystery has it, the Elder Race became dissatisfied with life on Earth. Spaceships were sent to find another more suitable world where they could live on the surface without fearing negative rays from the sun. When the scouts returned with word of a planet with a beneficial sun, a mass exodus was at once set in motion.
Because of the great distance involved and the limited number of spacecraft large enough to serve as transports, the vast majority of their marvelous machines of super science were sealed in underground caverns. Desperate experimentation with the "mech" brought about certain radiations that destroyed a portion of the brain of many of the underpeople and produced a dangerous form of hereditary insanity.
Vast numbers of the cave people began to degenerate into physically stunned near-idiots, incapable of constructive reasoning. Shaver tells his readers that these are the "dero," detrimental-or degenerate- robots. "Robot" as Shaver used the word does not mean a mechanical representation of man, but is rather a designation for those who are controlled, or obsessed, by degenerative forces.
The deros, due to their hereditary brain damage, are completely devoid of any moral sense or humane instinct. They do harm at every opportunity and they gain immense satisfaction from the sufferings of others. They have mastered the use of certain of the "mech," and they direct negative rays at the surface dwellers whenever possible.
Their greatest delight comes in luring, or kidnapping, humans into the caverns and debasing them in sadistic orgies, which usually result in death or enslavement for the unfortunate captive. According to Shaver, the details of some of these grotesque debaucheries reached the surface world and established the foundations for the accounts of devils, demons, and the underworld hells of religion.
Editor Ray Palmer claimed that the issue of Amazing Stories (March, 1945) that carried the first Shaver fact-fiction piece brought in an unprecedented mail response of 50,000 letters, all of which Palmer said ". . . stated that Shaver spoke the truth, there actually were caves, and dero, and rays, and stim, and contrived train wrecks, and mental control, and thought records, and Titans, and ancient spaceships, and radioactive death raining down on us from the sun."
Ray Palmer kept the mystery and the controversy going for four years, in more than fifty consecutive issues of Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Mammoth Adventures, and even South Sea Stories. The furor the Shaver Mystery set off among the science fiction and Fortean buffs continues to break out in periodic brush fires. Richard Shaver continues to contribute his "memories" to mimeographed fanzines, and occasionally, to the late Ray Palmer's Search magazine, published in Amherst, Wisconsin.
