Fossils, Footprints and Fantasy

FOSSILS, FOOTPRINTS, AND FANTASY

YOU may ask the question, and it should be asked, that if there really were `giants in the earth in those days', has anyone ever found their fossil remains from past ages preserved in that earth? The answer is that many remains have been found in the past which unquestionably belonged to former dwellers on our planet who were gigantic in stature. However, it is impossible here to go into any great detail on this. Actually, this is not necessary anyway, for there are many excellent books devoted entirely to the subject of giant men and women of legends and of actuality. Nevertheless, we are going to list some of the more interesting and important discoveries.

Several years ago in California, miners were working deep within the Earth, when at a depth of about 130 feet, they encountered a human skull. Examination showed that this skull had been buried under lava and was of the Tertiary Period. That would mean that the man who had belonged to this most primitive skull must have lived somewhere between the Eocene Epoch and the Pliocene Epoch of 6 to 60 million years ago!

Also in California another even more fantastic human skull was found. It was of great size and contained a double row of teeth! (In the Babylonian Talmud, or Hulin section of the Berakthoth, we find reference to antediluvian giants who also had several rows of teeth.)

In 1895, the Chicago Record printed a sensational story of another California discovery. This story said that an unknown type of ancient animal which had a skull bigger than that of an elephant had been found together with the fossil remains of men and women eight and nine feet tall.

In 1877, a fossil human tibia about 36 inches long was discovered many feet beneath the surface of the ground embedded in quartzite, near Eureka, Nevada.

Explorer Paxson Hayes claimed in 1934 that he had discovered the burial ground of a blonde race of giants near unexplored regions of the fabulous Barranca de Cobre in old Mexico. The 'barranca' is a canyon deeper and wider than the well-known Grand Canyon of Arizona. It is located approximately 550 miles south of Nogales, Mexico, and is 20 miles wide and 7,000 feet deep. It contains semi-tropical flora and fauna.

Hayes decided to explore the Barranca de Cobre after listening to Yaqui Indian legends and stories about it. The Indians claimed there were indications of a vast ancient civilization in a great canyon to the south in Mexico. In relating his discovery, Hayes said:

We entered the canyon through the only known opening, a slot in the rock where a river once ran. Close inside the entrance we came onto the ruins of what once must have been a great city consisting of giant buildings. They were constructed of a cement-like masonry that was mixed with bamboo. One of the mosque-topped buildings still contained the stored particles of ancient grain. The grain was later analyzed by Mexican government authorities who said it fell into no classification known today. However, we found no other traces of this lost civilization... there were no burial grounds, and it is in such places that civilizations leave their true histories. I returned to the United States and one night heard a chief of the Yaqui tell of ancient caves that existed about 45 miles north of the 'barranca' where I had discovered the Lost City. The chief said vast burial grounds could be located in the caves. I headed south again with my Yaqui guide, Rafael Garcia, who said he knew the location of the caverns.

We traveled with mules for 90 miles until we reached another deep canyon with sides sloping upwards to a series of mesas. I noticed on the horizon a strange rock formation which resembled a great cathedral in ruins... it seemed symbolic of what we sought. The cave we found began as a tunnel and ended in a chamber about So feet high, 25 feet deep, and 20 feet wide.

We dug down through eight inches of cave deposits until we reached volcanic ash which extended for another twelve inches... beneath all of this we discovered numerous burial wrappings made of woven mats bound with twisted yucca fiber rope. In these ancient wrappings we found 34 mummified remains of men and women... they originally had been between seven and eight feet tall! These giants were blonds, and to complicate the matter, the last body we discovered was that of a pygmy!

We also found two small, four-legged stools, that had been carved from solid pieces of wood... as yet, the wood is unidentified. Our greatest experience, however, was finding the saffron-colored burial robes that were plain except for a beautiful light blue pattern of intricately woven pyramids and triangles. The latter contain tiny white dots... one to three... which recur throughout the pattern. Portions of our discoveries are now in museums in California and Arizona.

Several years before the discoveries made by Paxson Hayes, Dr. Byron Cummings, well-known anthropologist of the University of Arizona, and Dr. Manuel Santo Domingo, a Mexican scientist, traveled 160 miles from the border of Arizona and Mexico to a site where they discovered giant skeletons of two men and one woman who were eight to nine feet tall. There were also remains of six children and they were all six feet tall. The giants had been covered with fine jewelry and buried with magnificent burial urns. The year was 1929, and the area was controlled by the fierce Yaqui Indians. Before the scientists could really organize their research, these Indians approached them with guns and knives. The men were told to leave at once or else. Dr. Santo Domingo tried to talk the warriors into letting them stay and work, but one of the Yaquis raised his rifle butt and smashed all the giant remains to dust.

In 1938, Senor de Valda, near Tepic, Mexico, discovered seven skeletons of giant men and women who were between eight and nine feet tall. The remains were found under thin slabs of blue stone in burial mounds. Some of the remains were sent to Dr. Cummings at the University of Arizona.

Besides the fossils found in the above areas, we have the traditional or legendary evidence. The Toltecs of ancient Mexico said that in 'the second era, the Sun of the Earth saw the world populated by giants, the Quinametzins, who almost disappeared when earthquakes obliterated the earth. The Wind Sun came third and Olmecs and Xicalancas, human tribes, lived on earth. They destroyed the surviving giants...' The legendary evidence was certainly proved a few years ago with the discovery of enormous carved stone heads of giant men at Olmec culture sites in old Mexico.

Another tradition in Mexico speaks of many pyramids having been built by antediluvian giants such as the giant Xelhua, who is said to have emerged from the mountain of Tlaloc. He was known as the `Sun God of the Cross'. His title is of great interest for its symbol is our Circle Cross that we have already discussed. Again we find giant beings associated with the symbol that is connected with the `El's'.

Many legends throughout the world speak of giants coming from great mountains and also dwelling on top of such high places. The Masai Tribe of Africa have ancient legends that go back to a time long before they ever saw a white man, and these legends speak of 'White Gods' on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika, near the Kenya border. This is the highest mountain in Africa and its highest peak, Kibo, is 19,321 feet about sea level. These 'White Gods' have been seen by the Masai for many generations, and, in fact, they report they are still being seen today! `Giant Gods', we will remember, were intimately associated with the Marcahuasi Plateau in Peru which is over 12,000 feet above sea level. `Giants' and 'mountains' or `gods' and 'high places' always go together.

The Masai also report that `strange glowing lights' are often seen above Mt. Kilimanjaro, which makes us recall the famous sighting from a commercial airliner several years ago. The plane was flying near the mountain when all of the passengers observed a gigantic silver, needle-like space ship hover directly over Kibo Peak for well over an hour. This large craft belonged to the type referred to as a 'Mother Ship'.

In August and September of 1956 I was in correspondence with a friend of mine who lives in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. At that time he said: 'It seems that Saucers (UFOs) are using Mt. Kilimanjaro (near hear) as a centre--it is our highest mountain, you know.' The name Kilimanjaro means 'White Mountain' in Masai.

Two or three hundred years ago the W'Chagga Tribe came to the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro where they had been driven by the warriors of the Masai. The W'Chagga were never war-like and considered Kilimanjaro a very sacred place. The name of the town at the foot of the mountain is Moshi, which means `smoke' in the Masai language. 'Smoke' and 'glowing lights' and `giant white gods' on Kilimanjaro make us wonder if we are reading about Mt. Olympus, mythical home of the Greek gods or a high mountain in Africa.

A friend of mine who lives almost on the slopes of Kilimanjaro writes:

I had a W'Chagga Ayah (W'Chagga nurse for children) for my children twenty-five years ago and this ayah said that tall people who 'came from the clouds' walked on the mountain top and lived in the mountain itself.

Kilimanjaro is a lovely mountain... my house faces it. I have seen space ships here three times and one time I observed a 'light' near the snow line of the mountain and this 'light' moved back and forth in that area. Other witnesses have always been with me when I have viewed the objects. One very spectacular sighting here was first observed by a native night guard who saw a very large, bright light come from Kilimanjaro and hover directly over my house. He called to me and I watched it for about an hour. It pulsated and beams of intense white and bright light came from it. The craft was brilliantly silver. Eventually it went straight up and I watched it while it looked like an immense star until it became a small object and the light was faint.

Lake Victoria in Africa is a short distance from Mt. Kilimanjaro, and west of this lake there is a race of giants still living today. These people range in size from seven to nine feet tall. They have been an aristocracy ruling over the ordinary Bantu negroes. They represent a very advanced people and are known throughout the world for their great dancing skill. (You will remember them from the motion picture, King Solomon's Mines.)

We have already mentioned the major fault lines of the Earth and how one runs through the centre of Italy and another one through Peru (and very near Marcahuasi). We also mentioned the fact that great cultural advancement seems to follow the fault lines due to the influences of magnetism on cultural development. Again we, find advanced people in a fault line area in Africa. The living giants west of Lake Victoria have as their main wealth a breed of cattle adorned with gigantic horns. These creatures are exactly like the Egyptian cattle of the most ancient figurations--the great horns in the shape of a lyre are identical. The old customs of the giants have been suppressed, but they formerly ruled as kings and princes with aristocratic ferocity. These people are completely different from others about them and may be related to the races that came to Egypt thousands of years ago, for it is now believed that they came to their present home in Africa as late as the fifteenth century.

These living giants, Lake Victoria and Mt. Kilimanjaro, are all located almost directly over one of the Earth's major fault lines. Here again we find strange correspondences as we did in Italy and Peru. We have Kilimanjaro with its ancient legends of `white gods' walking on the mountain and present reports of `glowing lights' and gigantic space ships over its highest peaks, and we have the stories of the `tall men' who lived on the mountain ages ago and we have the modern living tribe of `giants' west of Lake Victoria. There are too many correspondences here to ignore. Giants, fault lines, space ships.

At Mt. Kilimanjaro we have yet another example of UFOs showing up over a centre of magnetic concentration. But is this centre of natural or artificial origin? Remember the words of my friend's W'Chagga Ayah:'tall people lived in the mountain itself.' Beneath the Kilimanjaro area there may still be the `polished halls' and 'prismatic crystalline levels' of a great 'El' city. The 'Mother Ship' that was seen by the passengers of the airliner some years ago over Kilimanjaro may have been 're-fuelling' in the same manner that the UFO in the photograph of Prof. Cattoi in Italy was 're-fuelling' when he saw it hovering over a great carved stone head.

We also remember the ancient Huanca Indian legend from Peru: 'In the high places of our land, dwelt the Giant Gods in the days of our ancient fathers.' This legend could be transferred to the Kilimanjaro area, for it applies perfectly. Some very strange happenings have taken place on the mountains or in the `high places' of the world in the past and these happenings are taking place again today. If someone will take the time to look I predict that they will also find at least part of another `Sacred Forest', where exist great carved monoliths, somewhere in the little-known high places of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Returning now to our fossil evidence, we find that the New York newspapers carried an article on July 9, 1903, that Prof. S. Farr and a group of students from Princeton University were excavating fossils of a prehistoric race in the Fish Creek country of Montana. It was reported that they had found ruins of a 'stone age' city and that from one burial mound came the skeleton of a man which measured nine feet in length. The skeleton of a woman was found nearby, and it was nearly as big as that of the man. Part of an animal skeleton was found which resembled a dog, except that it must have been as large as a small horse.

At the turn of the century skeletons were found in South Carolina which indicated the men had been anywhere between eight and eleven feet tall. The newspapers at the time said giant bodies had been found which evidently had belonged to a race which could now 'step over a common rail fence'.

A strange order was passed down by the United States government during World War II that threatened court-martial for any serviceman who revealed certain findings to the public. These `findings' dealt with fossils, and very big fossils at that. In the Cook Inlet area of Alaska and on some of the Aleutian Islands themselves, gigantic skeletons of men nine feet tall had been discovered, by army men, in ancient villages which had been buried under volcanic ash and debris. We find that Alaskan natives of these areas have retained legends that speak about a race of giant men who formerly lived in the same locations. Our question here is: Why didn't the government of the United States want these findings made public? Surely, ancient fossils of giant men couldn't have disturbed the war effort! However, no one revealed anything and no one was court-martialed. But now that World War II and its restrictions is a thing of the past, certain men who were present when some of the fantastic buried villages were found have revealed the discoveries, and I know several of these men and have had long talks with them.

There is an old prospector who lives in the Northwest Coast area of the United States. He says he believes giant men lived on top of Mt. St. Helens in the Spirit Lake country during a time when water covered most of the land. Undoubtedly, he has heard some of the old Indian men of the area recount their ancient legends. Mt. St. Helens is about sixty miles south of Mt. Rainier, Washington. This mountain is directly in the path of one of the Earth's major fault lines which is the middle fault line in a group of three that move up the west coast of the United States and finally converge at Seattle, Washington. Also, let us remember that it was on June 24, 1947, over the same Mt. Rainier in the Cascade mountain range that pilot Kenneth Arnold observed nine shining, 'saucer-like' objects moving at 1,200 miles per hour! Again we have Giants, `high places', fault lines, and space ships.

If we go south of Mt. Rainier, through the State of Oregon, we come to another intensely interesting area that figures in ancient legends as well as modern stories. Indians of the Mt. Shasta area in northern California claim that their legends refer to strange mystery objects which appeared about 400 years ago near the area of modern San Francisco, California. The legends say that the leaders of the people at that time informed the tribe that the objects were from 'other worlds in the heavens near the stars'. The Indians always observed the objects going in a south to north direction. One of the fault lines we spoke of above continues south from Washington and goes directly through the Mt. Shasta area. Evidently the UFOs observed by the Indians 400 years ago were following this great fault line as it continued north towards Mt. Rainier, Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, etc.

It has been reported by many people in the past few years that a strange race of highly advanced beings live in the highest areas of Mt. Shasta. Also, strange `glowing lights' have been seen hovering over the mountain for long periods of time, both in the past and today. The Indians of the area are not referring to meteors in their legends for they always differentiate between objects dealing with natural phenomena and those apparently under intelligent control by the `star people'.

Mt. Rainier in Washington and Mt. Shasta in California along with Mt. Argentario in Italy and the Marcahuasi Plateau of the Andes Mountains in Peru all begin to sound like Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa. In the Mt. Shasta area we have again: `strange beings,' `high places', fault lines and space ships. Along the entire line from the Aleutian Islands to Alaska, through Canada and the west coast of the United States, on through Mexico and down to Peru, and even further south we find references to the discovery of fossil giants, to legendary giants, and references to modern space ships and Indian `mystery' objects'. We also find the `high places' or mountains along the entire length of the same line and a great fault line goes from one end to the other.

The aboriginal people of Australia have a legend that speaks of a time long ago when their country in the area of Lake Eyre, South Australia, existed under a green (not a blue) sky. This sky was supported by three great trees. The 'sky dwellers' came down to the Earth via the huge trees and then cut these trees down, so they could not return to heaven. (Another version says the natives cut the trees down to stop the coming of the `sky dwellers'.)

Recently, archaeologists have discovered prehistoric petroglyphs in little-known parts of Australia which show many native men standing around a disc-shaped object. Apparently the men are being instructed by a man of importance who stands directly in front of the disc. Evidently the road in the sky came down into Australia in the dim past also, for we find both legendary or traditional evidence and we find the archaeological evidence.

In Africa, in a desolate part of the Sahara Desert, scientists have located a great stone carving which depicts a whirling disc in the sky and many men on the ground fleeing from it. Recent expeditions into the Sahara have discovered that warriors in chariots crisscrossed the desert for thousands of years and established sizeable centers in the heart of the present desert. Magnificent frescoes have been found that critics say display fantastic skill, coloring and realism. They compare the unknown artists with the greatest man has ever produced. The frescoes date from 8,000 B.C. to the Christian era.

Whirling discs' in African skies remind us of the name the ancient Egyptians gave to UFOs: 'fire circles'. These 'fire circles' caused quite a sensation in the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III (1501-1447 B.C.) and their appearance was recorded by the Scribes on papyrus in the Royal Annals.

UFOs were called 'flying boats' by nearly all the Indian tribes of North America, and the same name prevailed in ancient India. Over 1,000 years ago in Hawaii the UFOs were known as Akualele, or 'flying spirits'. The ancient Hebrew word for hornet did not mean the large strong wasp we know under that name, but meant `flying machine'.

Several references to `flying objects' are to be found in the Old Testament:

`And I will send hornets ('flying machines') before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.' (Exodus xxiii:28).

'Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.' (Deuteronomy vii:20).

`And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow: (Joshua xxiv:12).

Dr. J. O. Kinnaman, the Bible archaeologist who conducted research in Egypt with Sir Flinders Petrie, has reported that he actually found ancient parts of 'flying machines' or the Hebrew `hornets'. These parts were discovered along with metallic insignia that the pilots of such 'flying objects' must have worn during the time of the Biblical Joshua.

Ashur, the chief deity of the Assyrian pantheon, was the god of military prowess and empire, a great god of war. He is always depicted standing upon an enormous disc, and this disc is winged. This could easily be another 'god' who came in a 'flying machine'.

Besides the Huanca legends of giants in Peru, there are many others. The Quechua Indians say that ancient fortresses overlooking Lago de Titicaca were 'erected by giants before the sun shone'. Also, it has been claimed that tombs of giant men have been found in the jungles of Peru.

Quechua legends state that during the reign of an early Inca emperor, giants reached Peru from the sea. The giant men arrived in boats from the Pacific ocean and landed near Point Santa Elena close to Puerto Viejo. The Quechuas say this happened in a very remote day and they only have the traditions from their ancestors. They also told the story to Don Pedro Cieza de Leon, the Spanish soldierpriest, in A.D. 1945. They told him that the giants were so large that from the 'knee down, they were as tall as a tall man, their hair hung from their great heads to their shoulders, they were beardless'.

The same Don Pedro tells us that near Cuzco in A.D. 1560, during the time of the Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza, a tomb was discovered that contained large human bones similar to bones that had already been located in Mexico City.

Another Spanish chronicler, Padre Acosta, reported that human bones of `huge greatness' were found near Manta on the coast of South America in the same year of A.D. 1560. In 1928, at the same location of Manta, Ecuador, similar human giant remains were discovered in a cave behind gigantic stalagmites. These giants measured over eight feet in height.

The famous English explorer, Col. P. H. Fawcett, reported that Tiahuanaco in Bolivia and Sacsayhuaman near Cuzco, Peru, had been built by a race who handled cyclopean boulders and carved them to fit so perfectly that it is impossible to insert a knife-blade between the mortarless stonework. Col. Fawcett said: `... looking at these remains it is not difficult to believe the tradition that they were erected by giants... indeed, skeletons of giants are said to have been discovered in rock tombs in the vicinity of Cuzco.'

Recently in Peru, Senor Augusto Salazar Moreno released news of a great discovery near the hill known as `El Agustino' which is now the home of native people. An expedition headed by an Italian was attempting to locate buried treasure and came across a human skeleton of extraordinary dimensions. Two members of the expedition, Miguel Rojas and Ernesto Chumpitas, said: 'We made the sensational discovery in a bed of sand at a depth of 50 meters (well over 150 feet). The skeleton measured 4 meters (13 feet) in height. These remains must have belonged to the giant men that figure in our legends. The matter is of such importance that we now await the opinion of the authorities. At a distance of 800 meters from the giant skeleton, we found other remains of human beings; some of them were covered with what appeared to be uniforms...

I rather imagine that the 'opinion of the authorities' changed the picture somewhat and the remains were either destroyed or hurried off to some dark museum storage room where no one could see them. It seems all such finds meet a similar fate. Man is not anxious (and indeed, not ready) to give up his already established theories and ideas. 'Giants' just upset the scientific 'applecart'.

However, very reputable scientists have reported discoveries of giant men. Some may feel that `giants' are just a part of fantasy, that such creatures only belong in fairy tales and Greek mythology. However, I rather imagine all of you would accept either a religious proof and/or a scientific proof. Remember, your Bible tells you: 'There were giants in the earth in those days...' Many of you who cannot accept `giants' but can accept Genesis had better start reading your Bibles again. And for those of you who demand scientific evidence, let us take a look at the findings of the anthropologist, Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald. In September, 1946, he walked into the New York Museum of Natural History with a priceless collection of fossils he had brought from Java that were the earliest known remains of man.

In von Koenigswald's collection were three of the greatest anthropological finds ever made. In padded boxes were skull fragments of Pithecanthropus robustus, a relative of the famous Java man, Pithecanthropus erectus. 'Robustus' was so large that he must have been the ancestor of 'erectus' who lived 400,000 years ago. Until the new finds were made the latter was considered the earliest human fossil. Von Koenigswald also brought with him part of a man called Meganthropus, who is considered even more primitive. However, the greatest and most primitive find concerned three gigantic human teeth, all that remained of Gigantopithecus, who was a 'giant' living in the caves of Kiangsi Province, China, close to a million years ago.

Von Koenigswald, a German paleontologist-anthropologist, found the teeth in China and did the rest of his work in Java before World War II. He conducted research for the Carnegie Institution and the Dutch government and was a prisoner for three years after the Japanese invaded Java in 1942. To make sure the important discoveries were safe, the scientist hid the teeth in a milk bottle.

When the great molar of Gigantopithecus was compared with an equivalent tooth from the skull of modern man, the similarity was obvious. This ancient 'giant' was definitely a human being and not just a great ape. But even more startling is the size of the teeth. 'They are four times the size of our teeth today and the 'giant' must have stood twenty feet in height! If science can accept such gigantic men perhaps we can accept the smaller twelve-foot man of the Marcahuasi Plateau and the seven, eight, nine, or ten-foot men of other discoveries.

A great modern anthropologist, Dr. Franz Weidenreich, author of Apes, Giants and Man, said that each type of fossil from Pithecanthropus erectus back to Gigantopithecus is larger, more massive and more primitive or earlier than the one before it. He believed that man's earliest known ancestor was a huge being much larger than a creature twice the size of a modern gorilla.

If science and religion both say there were 'giants in the earth in those days' why deny it? Is it fantasy or is it fact?

Fossils of men or beings of gigantic proportions have been found throughout the history of Earth, but is it possible some of those creatures are still living in some of the '.high places' or the unexplored areas of Earth, where they have retreated to be safe from their smaller and deadlier relative, modern man? The thought is intriguing, but is it true?

Not long ago the inhabitants of the desolate region of Puna Atacama, Argentina (approximately 200 kilometers west of Salta), which is located in the heights of the Andean cordillera near the Chilean border, declared that there was evidence indicating the presence of strange large beings on the snowy peaks of the mountain Macon (nearly 22,000 feet).

Witnesses said they saw tracks of giant proportions with humanlike characteristics in the frozen ground of the Macon and also in the snow on the pampas where they live. The tracks or footprints appeared over a year ago for the first time and apparently coincided with an explosion on the side of Macon. People of the area believed some aerial object had struck the mountain, but the matter was never investigated officially. However, some people claimed that the strange object which hit the mountain was a kind of giant airship with a peculiar form like a cigar.

Later, 'flying cigars' were seen in the skies over the Salar de Guisare, and local inhabitants near the Macon again saw the unusual tracks and some of the people began to believe that extraterrestrial beings were landing on Earth. Due to the vastness of the snowy, treeless plains (pampas) the area would be ideal for the landing of gigantic airships. The people of the area are firm in their statements that they have seen many strange ships flying over this region and that some of them were calculated to be 300 meters in length.

The National Police supplied newspapers in Argentina with excellent photographs that clearly showed the passage of strange craft in the skies over the Salta area and these were similar to sightings of UFOs from all over the world. Strange beings were also reported at Puna Saltena on Macon mountain. Many informants have declared that they have heard strange cries resounding throughout the mountain area and across the treeless plains during the time of the setting sun; these sounds they have heard with great clarity.

Other people have reported that they have found many condors and eagles dead and their nests ravaged in the mountains. These witnesses say that in all cases where great quantities of birds have been killed they have seen near or around the nests giant humanlike tracks which cannot be attributed to bears as they thought in the beginning.

All witnesses to the strange happenings in Argentina have been careful of reporting the matter for fear of being ridiculed. However, now the well-known geologist, Dr. Spitch, has also reported seeing the strange footprints and therefore the other witnesses are coming forward with their experiences.

The 'cigar-shaped craft' of Macon mountain sounds very much the same as the 'needle-like ship' over Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa. We must also mention that one of the Earth's major fault lines goes through the area of the Marcahuasi Plateau, then moves south past the 'Lines of Nazca', and continues south past Lago de Titicaca, and eventually goes directly through the Salta area where the strange happenings have been taking place in Argentina.

Other things have been reported from nearby areas. On February 14, 1957, I was in Lima, Peru, when I saw the following article in La Prensa: Raro y Gigantesco Objeto Hallaron en Andes Chilenos. I contacted a friend of mine who is a newspaper man in Peru and I attempted to obtain permission to fly to Chile and investigate the matter, but I found all doors closed, and closed tight ! Evidently the Chilean government did not want anyone investigating the spectacular occurrence and it was all immediately put under wraps.

On the slopes of the volcano Mino, only 45 kilometers from the town of Ollague, Chile and on the border of Chile and Bolivia, a strange apparatus was found. It was reported to the Prefect of Antofagasta who sent a telegram to the Minister of the Interior. The Prefect said that the apparatus consisted of a very thin piece of material which was transparent and more or less 1,000 meters in length. In the interior of the apparatus, a small oval object which was 30 centimeters in circumference weighing 3 kilograms was found. The oval piece appeared to be made of a metal like aluminum and also had a ring made of the same material along with peculiar strips of a plastic-like material each one about 20 to 25 centimeters long. The Prefect reported that he believed the apparatus had at one time `flown in the sky' but he did not know the nationality or the origin of it. The 1,000 meters were rolled up and put on a train bound for Antofagasta. Later, parts of the apparatus were sent to the Minister of the Interior. After that, the `doors closed'. A certain newspaper ran a story entitled: Flying Disc Falls In The North, and asked the question: `If it was a "flying disc", where is the crew?' If they had cared to look they may have found the owners or the `crew' of the apparatus a few kilometers to the south in the vicinity of the strange beings on Macon mountain in Argentina.

The town of Ollague in Chile is also directly on the same fault line and there are strange patterns in the area like those of the NazcaPalpa region in Peru. Let us also remember that Lago de Titicaca is not far from any of these areas and the Rio Desaguadero flows from Titicaca into Lago Poopo where we find the 'mystery' of the two hundred thousand cubic feet of water per minute and the underground location of a great 'El' city. Again we have `strange beings', 'high places', fault lines and space ships.

On September i9, I956, El Comercio in Lima, Peru, printed the story of a spectacular sighting at yet another `fault line' location. A strange flying object had made incredible maneuvers in the sky for over two hours over the Peruvian Air Force Base 'Capitan Montes', Talara, Peru. Air Force Chaplain R. P. Emiliano Alvarez, First Lieutenant Jose Jaime Guerra, and other officers and personnel at the base had observed the movements of what they called a 'Platillo Volador' ('Flying Saucer') as it moved with great velocity from east to west with a great sweeping motion. The UFO was oval in form and made many abrupt stops as though it were observing the base. Chaplain Alvarez said: "I have never believed in `Flying Saucers' but now I am convinced. I believe this object was manoeuvring so that we might observe it. After more than two hours of incredible movements the luminous body disappeared towards the west, but it left within the souls of all spectators the firm conviction that they had seen a 'Flying Saucer'."

Strange things not only happened in the past but they are happening today. In fact, they seem to be on the increase. Chehalis, Washington, is on a fault line and very close to Mount Rainier where Kenneth Arnold had his sighting in 1947. A few months later, on January 6, 1948, Mrs. Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis said she saw a man with wings attached to his back fly over her farm at an altitude of about 200 feet and then disappear to the south. The witness said: "The 'flying man' made a strange sound as he climbed in flight, but his wings neither flapped nor rotated. I could see no motive power such as a propeller either above or in front of him. Several school children were in my yard at the time and witnessed the 'flying man' also." Not only do we have 'Flying Saucers' but we have `Flying Men'! Charles Fort would have had a heyday.

In 1956, a strange monster appeared at Marshall, Michigan. Two Mexican beet pickers arrived at the Beet Camp earlier than the other workers. The monster came into their cabin. It was very tall and had stiff hair all over it. It picked up one of the frightened men and looked at him with large, glowing red eyes. The fingers of the creature extended to the back of the man's head they were so large. It also picked up the other man, but it didn't hurt either of them; in fact, the men said they felt it didn't have any evil intentions towards them.

Two years before the above happening in 1954, I was in Detroit, Michigan, and I heard the story of the 'frogin' from reliable friends. Apparently a snake-like creature of great size had been observed in several places in Michigan and finally one was caught and taken to the Humane Society. The man who took care of it said that it frightened him and that it had two great eyes that looked like human eyes. He said it displayed great intelligence and would rise up in its cage and its eyes would follow him as he went about his duties in the room. I attempted to investigate the story of the 'frogin' but when I was about to leave for the office of the Humane Society, a telephone call informed me that the creature had been put to death painlessly and then buried!

During the last part of 1956, while the beet pickers were wrestling with the `hairy man', the town of Agua Prieta in old Mexico was near panic from the 'green menace'. Acting Chief of Police Enrique Matty reported that people were seeing a frightful sight. Many observers were so shaken by the experience they could provide no description at all. However, most everyone agreed that the 'menace' walked in robes as black as the night and had a hideous green face. As we said before, there are a lot of strange things going on!

On January 2, 1954, Singapore reported security troops were ordered to bring back alive a group of hairy, fanged jungle creatures whose appearance at outlying rubber plantations had left workers screaming in terror. Weird half-ape, half-human creatures with protruding fangs wandered out of the north Malayan jungles and were first seen on Christmas Day, 1953. Some authorities said the creatures might be descendants of a race of hairy beings who, according to ancient legends, once roamed the forests of northern Malaya. Government officials at Kuala Lumpur said the creatures had a very light skin which indicated they had lived for years in the dark, overgrown Malayan jungles where sunlight rarely penetrates. Also, it was reported that the creatures were heard to speak some kind of a language.

The `hairy beings' of Malaya may, or may not, have something to do with other creatures that are called Mi-Go by the Tibetans and Yeti by the Nepalese. But, if we follow the great fault line that goes through the middle of Malaya to the north we will reach an area that more than any other place in the world means mystery, adventure, and supernatural power to millions of people everywhere.

When this fault line reaches Tibet, it is surrounded by fabulous places. First of all, there is Lhasa, sacred city of the Buddhists and the location of the Potala, Palace of the Dalai Lama. Also, there is Darjeeling, the location of the retreat of Master El Morya. And very near Lhasa is Shigatse, the location of the Shigatse Palace which is one of the retreats of Master Kuthumi (Koot Hoomi Lal Singh). Finally, almost in the centre of all this, stands a magnificent spectacle known to the Tibetans as Chomo-lungma, the highest known mountain in the world on the frontier of Nepal and Tibet. To us, Chomo-lungma is simply Mount Everest, and this great mountain is a part of the Himalaya mountain system which is 1,600 miles long extending between India and Tibet. Many of its peaks are over 25,000 feet above sea level, and Mount Everest itself rises to 29,141 feet.

This area is similar to Lago de Titicaca and the Andes Mountains of South America because it, too, is shrouded in mystery and ancient secrets, and both areas have a great fault line. They have something else in common, for in their 'high places' is to be found the elusive creature of the ice and snow known as the Yeti or Mi-Go, but known to the world as the 'abominable snowman'.

This creature also has the native name of Metohkangmi, which means 'the indescribably filthy snowman'. Whether he is myth or fact has been the subject of story and surmise for nearly two centuries. He was considered mostly a legend, however, until Colonel W. A. Waddell of the British Army reported seeing Yeti tracks in the snows of the Himalayas as far back as 1887. In 1921, members of an expedition to Mount Everest actually found some of the footprints at altitudes far above those where human beings could survive. Since that time the footprints of the creature have been photographed numerous times by the members of other expeditions to many of the highest Himalayas.

Tensing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest, believes that "the Yeti is as substantial as the summit of the Himalayas'. Tensing says his father was once chased by a Snowman and was forced to seek refuge in a mountain cabin. Thereupon, the creature climbed to the top of this cabin and attempted to tear off the roof in order to gain entry. Tensing says the Snowman gave up when his father started a fire inside the cabin and allowed the smoke to go up through the roof.

Although the footprints have been photographed, the Yeti itself has never been photographed nor captured. Henry John Elwes of England was the first westerner to claim that he saw a Snowman. That was in 1906. Since that time other accounts have been reported. In 1925, the Greek explorer A. N. Tombaji saw the creature, as did the two Norwegians, J. Thorberg and B. Frotis, in 1948. During the first part of 1958, the Russian explorer A. G. Pronin encountered a Yeti.

Other well-known men have seen Yeti tracks. Sir John Hunt, leader of the 1953 Everest expedition, reported that he saw great tracks of the Snowman. Jules Detry, the Belgian anthropologist who accompanied the Swiss expedition to Ganesh Himal in 1954, came across Yeti tracks in the snow. And many members of the French expedition to Makalu viewed gigantic footprints of an unknown creature.

Stories of the existence of the Snowman have circulated for many centuries among the people of the Himalayas. The creature found its way into Himalayan literature and was called 'the man from the wilds', and 'the creature of the rocks'. Some of the 'holy men' of the mountain called him `last of the great ones'. Many Lamas and Sherpas have seen the Snowman in the snowy reaches of the `high places'.

The Yeti is supposed to be a creature midway between animal and man. It is anywhere from 7 to 9 feet tall. Long, thick and stiff hair of a reddish brown color covers its entire body. Some reports claim the creature has hair the color of `ashes' or grey. It has a flat face, something like an ape, but very wrinkled and without hair of any kind. Its head is extremely high and conical and the nails on its long fingers look like the claws of an enormous bear. It has no tail.

The creature feeds on raw meat, roots and fruits and lives in the Himalayas situated between 10,000 and 17,000 feet. However, it travels as high as 21,000 feet in search of food. It walks on two legs like a man and moves about alone. A few reports have been made which indicate it sometimes moves in groups of three or four.

The people of Nepal and neighboring regions say that in the days when the Himalayan forests were denser than they are today, and men seldom ventured very high, the Yeti lived in great numbers and inhabited extensive regions of the upper Himalayan reaches. In those days the Sherpas had to fight to protect their villages and gardens from the creatures. Now, the Yeti population has declined, for there are very few left in the mountains, and they avoid human habitations. However, there are reports of cases where a Snowman has taken a human female as a wife ! The village of Tarke in northern Nepal is supposed to have a family of Sherpas who are descended from a Yeti father and a Sherpa mother. Another family in the village of Melumche is reported to have just the opposite-children born of a Yeti mother and a Sherpa father.

In 1954, the London Daily Mail organized a nine-man scientific expedition to locate the Snowman, but it failed in its efforts to see him. However, many members said they saw much evidence of the existence of the Yeti including a scalp of the creature preserved in a Buddhist monastery. Other explorers in the past have seen Yeti scalps which were shown to them by the Lamas. The official report of the expedition said: `The Yeti is a biped, human-like animal which dwells in the Himalayas and it is definitely not a bear, monkey, ape or langur as suggested by some investigators.'

In 1953, on an expedition to the Himalayas, Navnit Parekh of the Bombay Natural History Society, became friendly with the Lama of Thyangboche Monastery. The Lama showed him the scalp of a Yeti, and Parekh was allowed to take a sample of the hair. When he returned to Bombay, he showed them to Dr. Dillon Ripley of Yale University. Dr. Ripley suggested Parekh send the hair to Dr. Leon A. Hausman, well-known sociologist and ornithologist and also one of the world's leading authorities on hair. Dr. Hausman reached these preliminary conclusions: (1) The hair comes from the shoulder or back of some kind of large unknown mammal. (2) The age of the hair may be very great and is possibly measured in centuries. (3) The animal from which the hair was taken may not be a native of Tibet, and may come from a land hundreds or even thousands of miles away. (4) The hair is definitely not from a bear, an ape or a langur which many scientists believe the Snowman to be, nor is the hair from any close relation to such animals. Dr. Hausman's conclusions are startling, to say the least.

On June 10, 1956, a sensational discovery was announced in Katmandu, Nepal. Himalayan villagers claimed to have found the complete body of a Yeti imbedded in the solid ice of a crevasse at the foot of Mount Makalu, the 27,790 foot peak on the Tibetan-Nepalese border. However, no further reports of this important discovery reached the outside world.

The Sherpas say that the cry of the Snowman resembles the high-pitched howling of a dog. The Englishman, Peter John Webster, says while he was high in the Himalayas he heard a strange whistling sound, which his guides said was the wail of a Snowman. Webster searched the area but could not locate the creature. Remember our discussion of the 'strange cries resounding throughout the mountain area and across the treeless plains during the time of the setting sun' in the vicinity of Macon mountain in Argentina? What does it all mean? Is there a possible clue in the words of Dr. Hausman's conclusion: '... the animal may not be a native of Tibet... and may come from a land... thousands of miles away'?

Peter Byrne, leader of a 1957 American expedition, reported that the data collected by the expedition offered unmistakable proof of the existence of the 'Abominable Snowman'. They came across footprints 12 inches long and 6 inches wide which could not have belonged to any known animal. They also collected stiff hair which scientists could not identify.

Trappers and Indians in 1938 reported that 'hairy giants' in the unexplored areas of northern British Columbia, Canada, were still living. The Indians call these creatures 'Sasquatch Man' and say the beings are eight feet tall, and covered with short hair except on the face around the eyes. The description fits the Yeti of the Himalayas. A Canadian Indian agent reported at the same time that he believed the modern giants were very shy creatures, descendants of some ancient tribe. Indians say the hairy men meet on top of the mountains and that they have seen these beings on numerous occasions. 'Sasquatch Man' has also been reported at Harrison Hot Springs which is only about 90 miles north-east of Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

It is reliably reported that a 'Snowman' creature lives on the peaks of the mountains on Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Footprints of a giant being have been seen many times by Indians on the shore.

In the Canadian Northwest Territories, Indian legends speak of giant hairy men who live near the snow line of great mountains. In the Mackenzie River area there is a 'Headless Man's Valley' which received its name from the fact that Indians said men were found with their heads torn from their bodies and that a great 'hairy being' was the cause.

On Vancouver Island there is a strange place known as `Forbidden Plateau'. Many things are said to live there. Red and blue snow has been known to fall on the plateau and a flying creature known as the 'Wendigo' is supposed to emit eerie sounds that call to a person and make him follow it.

It has been reported by the Lamas of Tibet that the Yetis and other 'hairy giants' throughout the world represent a retarded portion of the human race which can only survive in the most secluded and the highest places. Other Lamas refer to the most ancient records where the Snowman is reverently referred to as 'the last of the great ones'. What the Yeti or his relatives in the 'high places' of the world really are, I do not know, but we may soon discover that he is of the species formerly thought extinct which served as the prototype for the great anthropoid apes and also hu-man beings. We may even discover that the Snowman in some ways displays great intelligence.

The mummified remains of giant men who are 12 feet tall have been reported to have been found in South America and also in the subterranean chambers deep underneath the lamaseries of mysterious Tibet. Again, we find too many correspondences to ignore: 'strange beings', 'high places', fault lines and similar traditional evidence. What is the connection between the 'strange giants' and the peculiar airships of the mountains of Argentina and the 'abominable snowman' of the Himalayan peaks? And why do we have identical reports from other 'high places' in the world? And why do we also find fault lines in connection with the reports whether they be legendary or modern, or whether they are from Tibet, Canada, or South America?

Why is there a Great Wall in China that is similar to a Great Wall in Peru? Why were such walls built winding their way over miles of mountain territory? Were they constructed by man to keep something away from his inhabited centers? And if they were, what was (or is) that something? These are difficult questions to answer, for we are only now on the fringes of the matter, but the correspondences we have related above must be taken into consideration before a final conclusion is reached. Such a conclusion may be horrible, or it may be wonderful. Who were or who are the 'last of the great ones'?

We have given you a bit of fantasy for there may be no 'frogins', and a Mexican 'green menace' may just be imagination. But what of the fossils and the footprints? Can we ignore them? We may find that the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk', or 'Jack the Giant Killer' is not far from wrong! When you discover fossil evidence in a certain area, and then hear of ancient legends which describe the same thing, and later actually see for yourself the footprints of the same thing living today, in the same area, you have archaeological, traditional, and modern visual proof that cannot be ignored.

What is the connection between fossils, footprints, and fantasy and the road in the sky of time immemorial? We do not know, but we do know that some kind of a connection does exist.

Did the psalmist of old have all this in mind when he wrote in Psalm 95:4: `In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.'