Underground civilizations: The entrance to the inner world of our planet. Underground reptilian cities

We can say that this mystery has been solved, because modern researchers have already made their conclusion - we are not the only inhabitants on planet Earth. Evidence of ancient years, as well as the discoveries of scientists of the 20th - 21st centuries, argue that mysterious civilizations existed on Earth, or rather, underground from ancient times to the present day.

For some reason, representatives of these civilizations did not come into contact with people, but still made themselves felt, and terrestrial mankind has long had legends and legends about mysterious and strange people who sometimes come out of caves. In addition, modern people have less and less doubts about the existence of UFOs, which were often observed flying out of the ground or from the depths of the seas.

Research conducted by NASA specialists together with French scientists discovered underground cities, as well as an underground network of tunnels and galleries, stretching for tens and even thousands of kilometers in Altai, the Urals, Perm region, Tien Shan, Sahara and South America. And these are not those ancient land cities that collapsed and over time their ruins were covered with earth and forests. These are precisely underground cities and structures erected in a way unknown to us directly in underground rocks.

Polish researcher Jan Paenk claims that a whole network of tunnels has been laid underground that lead to any country. These tunnels are created with the help of high technology, unknown to people, and they pass not only under the surface of the land, but also under the bed of the seas and oceans. The tunnels are not just punched, but as if burnt out in underground rocks, and their walls are a frozen molten rock - smooth as glass and have an extraordinary strength. Jan Paenk met with miners who came across such tunnels while driving shreks. According to the Polish scientist and many other researchers, flying saucers rush from one end of the world to the other along these underground communications. (Ufologists have great amount evidence that UFOs fly out of the ground and from the depths of the seas). Such tunnels have also been found in Ecuador, South Australia, the USA, and New Zealand. In addition, vertical, absolutely straight (like an arrow) wells with the same melted walls have been found in many parts of the world. These wells have different depths from tens to several hundred meters.

The found underground map of the planet, compiled 5 million years ago, confirms the existence of a high-tech civilization.
For the first time, they started talking about an unknown underground people in 1946. This came after writer, journalist and scientist Richard Shaver told readers of the American magazine " Amazing Stories”, dedicated to the paranormal, about his contact with aliens living underground. According to Shaver, he lived for several weeks in the underworld of mutants, similar to demons, described in ancient legends and tales of earthlings.
One could attribute this “contact” to the writer’s wild imagination, if not for the hundreds of responses from readers who claimed that they also visited underground cities, communicated with their inhabitants and saw various miracles of technology, not only providing the underground inhabitants of the Earth with a comfortable existence in its very bowels, but also giving the opportunity to... control the consciousness of earthlings!

In April 1942, with the support of Goering and Himmler, an expedition consisting of the most advanced minds of Nazi Germany, led by Professor Heinz Fischer, set off to look for an entrance to an underground civilization, supposedly located on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. Hitler was convinced that at least parts of the earth consisted of voids within which one could live and which had long been home to the highly developed peoples of antiquity. German scientists, in turn, expected that if they managed to place modern radar devices at the right geographical point under the surface of the earth, then with their help it would be possible to track the exact location of the enemy in any part of the world. Almost every nation has myths about the race of Ancient beings that inhabited the world millions of years ago. Infinitely wise, scientifically advanced and culturally advanced, these creatures, driven underground by terrible catastrophes, created their own civilization there, giving them everything they need. They don't want to have anything to do with people they think are mean, dirty, and wild. But sometimes they steal human children, then to raise them as their own. Ancient creatures look like ordinary people and live for a very long time, but they appeared on our planet millions of years before us.
In 1977, photographs taken from the ECCA-7 satellite appeared in several American magazines, showing a regular dark spot, similar to a huge hole, in the place where the North Pole should be located. Identical photographs were taken by the same satellite in 1981, could this be the entrance to the underworld?
Who are the inhabitants of the underworld?

In the history of the planet, there were many ice ages, collisions with meteorites, and other cataclysms that led to the disappearance of civilizations, the period between which cataclysms occurred is quite sufficient for the formation of a highly technical civilization.
Is it possible that some civilization could survive the "end of the world"?
Monsters or inhabitants of the underworld

Suppose that millions of years ago there was a high-tech civilization, during which there was a collision with a meteorite or another global cataclysm that changed the climate of the planet, what would the civilization do then, most likely would try to survive, and if the surface of the planet is not suitable for life and the flight to another planet is not allows the level of technology, only the "underground shelter" remains.
Then the question is, what happened to civilization and why, after the climate change, the underground inhabitants did not come to the surface?
Maybe they just couldn’t, constant stay in a different climate and different gravitation (gravitational pressure underground is significantly different from usual), in addition, it should be noted that there is no sunlight underground, technological lighting does not contain a full spectrum, and a long stay under technical lighting can also be the cause of "weaning" from sunlight.

Given that all this has been going on for thousands of years, it can be assumed that the underground civilization could have evolved greatly, it is even possible that a rejection of some aspects of the climate has developed, such as sunlight, it is possible that sunlight simply burns the inhabitants of the underworld, all this is not as fantastic as it seems. Another aspect of survival is the adaptation of food, since it is not very easy to organize "Vigitarian" food in the conditions of the underworld, and rather depends on the level of civilization, it is more likely that civilization has switched to only animal food. Some of the listed parameters, of course, should have influenced the culture and mentality of civilization, maybe some monsters are just inhabitants of the underworld?

The mysterious underworld exists not only in legends. In recent decades, the number of visitors to the caves has increased markedly. Adventurers and miners are making their way deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Earth, more and more often they come across traces of the activities of mysterious underground inhabitants. It turned out that under us there is a whole network of tunnels stretching for thousands of kilometers and enveloping the entire Earth, and huge, sometimes even populated underground cities.

In South America, there are amazing caves connected by endless intricate passages - the so-called chinkanas. The legends of the Hopi Indians say that snake people live in their depths. These caves are practically unexplored. By order of the authorities, all entrances to them are tightly closed with bars. Dozens of adventurers have already disappeared without a trace in Chinkanas. Some tried to penetrate the dark depths out of curiosity, others out of a thirst for profit: according to legend, Inca treasures are hidden in chinkanas. Only a few managed to get out of the terrible caves. But even these “lucky ones” were permanently damaged in their minds. From the incoherent stories of the survivors, one can understand that they met strange creatures in the depths of the earth. These inhabitants of the underworld were both human and snake-like at the same time.

There are pictures of fragments of global dungeons in North America. The author of the book about Shambhala, Andrew Thomas, based on a thorough analysis of the stories of American speleologists, claims that in the mountains of California there are direct underground passages that lead to the state of New Mexico.

Once I had to study the mysterious thousand-kilometer tunnels and the American military. An underground nuclear explosion was carried out at a test site in Nevada. Exactly two hours later, at a military base in Canada, 2000 kilometers away from the explosion site, a radiation level was recorded that was 20 times higher than normal. A study by geologists has shown that near the Canadian base there is an underground cavity that connects to a huge cave system that permeates the North American continent.

There are especially many legends about the underworld of Tibet and the Himalayas. Here in the mountains there are tunnels that go deep into the earth. Through them, the "initiate" can travel to the center of the planet and meet with representatives of the ancient underground civilization. But not only wise beings who give advice to "initiates" live in the underworld of India. Ancient Indian legends tell of the mysterious kingdom of the Nagas, hidden in the depths of the mountains. Nanases live in it - snake people who keep countless treasures in their caves. Cold-blooded as snakes, these creatures are incapable of experiencing human feelings. They cannot warm themselves and steal warmth, bodily and spiritual, from other living beings.

The existence of a system of global tunnels in Russia was written in his book “The Legend of the LSP” by a spelestolog - a researcher studying artificial structures - Pavel Miroshnichenko. The lines of global tunnels he drew on the map of the former USSR went from the Crimea through the Caucasus to the well-known Medveditsa ridge. In each of these places, groups of ufologists, speleologists, explorers of the unknown discovered fragments of tunnels or mysterious bottomless wells.

The Medveditskaya ridge has been studied by expeditions organized by the Kosmopoisk association for many years. The researchers not only managed to record the stories of local residents, but also using geophysical equipment to prove the reality of the existence of dungeons. Unfortunately, after World War II, the mouths of the tunnels were blown up.

A sublatitudinal tunnel stretching from the Crimea to the east in the region of the Ural Mountains intersects with another, stretched from north to east. It is along this tunnel that you can hear stories about "divya people", who at the beginning of the last century went out to the locals. "Divya people", - is told in the epics, common in the Urals, - live in Ural mountains, exits to the world have through caves. Their culture is great. The “Divya people” are small in stature, very beautiful and have a pleasant voice, but only the elite can hear them ... An old man from the “Divya people” comes to the square and predicts what will happen. An unworthy person does not hear or see anything, and the peasants in those places know everything that the Bolsheviks are hiding.

Legends of our days.

England. The miners, digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from somewhere below. After breaking through, they found a staircase leading to an underground well. The sound of working equipment increased, and therefore the workers got scared and ran away. Returning after some time, they found neither the entrance to the well nor the stairs.

USA. Anthropologist James Macken, along with his colleagues, explored a cave in Idaho that is notorious among the indigenous population. The locals believed that there is an entrance to the underworld. Scientists, having gone deep into the dungeon, clearly heard screams and groans, and then discovered human skeletons. Further exploration of the cave had to be stopped due to the increasing smell of sulfur.

Under the Black Sea city of Gelendzhik, a bottomless mine with a diameter of about one and a half meters with amazingly smooth edges was discovered. Experts unanimously say: it was created using technology unknown to people and has existed for more than one hundred years.

Speaking of the underworld, one cannot discount the legends that have already appeared today. For example, modern Indians living in mountainous areas California, they say that very tall golden-haired people sometimes come from Mount Shasta: they once descended from heaven, but failed to adapt to life on the earth's surface. Now they live in a secret city that lies within extinct volcano. And you can get into it only through mountain caves. By the way, Andrew Thomas, the author of a book about Shambhala, absolutely agrees with the Indians. The researcher believes that there are underground passages in Mount Shasta, going in the direction of New Mexico and further to South America.

Speleologists "discovered" another underground people: they are sure that troglodytes inhabit deep caves all over the world. It is said that these cave dwellers sometimes appear before people; help in trouble those who respect their world, and punish those who desecrate the caves...

To believe or not to believe?

In principle, a person can exist underground, and it would be pretty good if there was money. Suffice it to recall the bunker house that Tom Cruise is currently building: the megastar plans to hide in his underground dwelling from aliens who, in his opinion, should soon attack our Earth. In less "illuminated", but no less solid bunker cities, the "chosen ones" are preparing in the event of an atomic war to wait out the nuclear winter and the post-radiation period - and this is a period during which more than one generation will rise to its feet! Moreover, in China and Spain today, many thousands of people do not live in houses, but in comfortable caves with all amenities. True, these cave dwellers continue to actively contact the outside world and take part in terrestrial life. But the inhabitants scattered around the world cave monasteries- like the Greek Meteora - have always been almost completely cut off from the hectic life. According to the degree of isolation, lasting for centuries, their existence can be considered underground.

But, perhaps, the most striking example of the adaptability of a huge number of people (what is there - a whole civilization!) To the "lower" world is the underground city of Derinkuyu.

Derinkuyu

Derinkuyu, which means "deep wells", takes its name from the small Turkish town currently located above it. For a long time, no one thought about the purpose of these strangest wells, until in 1963 one of the local residents, who discovered a strange crack in his basement from which fresh air was drawn, showed a healthy curiosity. As a result, a multi-tiered underground city was found, the numerous rooms and galleries of which, connected with each other by passages, tens of kilometers long, were hollowed out in the rocks...

Already during the excavation of the upper tiers of Derinkuyu, it became clear: this was the discovery of the century. In the underground city, scientists discovered objects of material culture of the Hittites, a great people who competed with the Egyptians for dominance in Asia Minor. Hittite kingdom, founded in the XVIII century BC. e., in the XII century BC. e. sank into the unknown. That is why the discovery of a whole city of the Hittites became a real sensation. In addition, it turned out that the giant underground city is only part of a colossal labyrinth under the Anatolian plateau. Scientists have come to the conclusion that underground construction has been carried out for at least nine (!) Centuries. Moreover, these were not just earthworks, albeit of a colossal volume. Ancient architects equipped the underground empire with a life-support system, the perfection of which still amazes today. Everything here was thought out to the smallest detail: rooms for animals, warehouses for food, rooms for cooking and eating, for sleeping, for meetings ... At the same time, religious temples and schools were not forgotten. A precisely calculated blocking device made it easy to block the entrances to the dungeon with granite doors. And the ventilation system that supplied the city with fresh air continues to function flawlessly to this day!

In the presence of provisions in the underground city, up to two hundred thousand people could live indefinitely at the same time. The issue of replenishing food stocks could be solved in many ways: from domestic production to the use of "intermediary services". Apparently, there was no single scheme for all time.
But in the legends of different peoples, underground inhabitants get their livelihood by barter, secret trade, or even theft. The latter option, however, is only suitable for small underground communities: Derinkuyu could hardly feed himself in this way. By the way, most likely, it was the extraction of food that caused the terrestrial inhabitants to have thoughts about the existence of "children of the dungeons" ...
Traces of the Hittites, who lived underground, can be traced until the Middle Ages, and then are lost. A developed underground civilization managed to secretly exist for almost two millennia, and after its disappearance, it did not open to the ground world for more than a thousand years. And this amazing fact alone allows us to make an unambiguous conclusion: yes, it is still possible to live underground in secret from people!

This is a huge underground city that goes underground for 8 floors.

Always +27.

Underground America

Legends and myths of many peoples of the world tell about the existence of various intelligent beings underground. In truth, few sane people have ever taken these stories seriously. But now our time has come, and some researchers began to write about the underground city of Agartha. The entrance to this secret underground abode of them is allegedly located under the Lasha monastery in Tibet. The vast majority of representatives of official science reacted to such statements with slight irony. But on the other hand, messages about mysterious entrances to dungeons and about bottomless mines may, perhaps, be of interest not only to an inquisitive person, but also to a serious scientist.

Among a number of researchers of the underground world, there is a strong opinion that the entrances to the underground cities of humanoid inhabitants exist in Ecuador, the Pamirs and even at the poles of the Arctic and Antarctic.

It was in the area of Mount Shasta, according to Indian eyewitnesses, that people who did not look like those here were seen several times coming out of the ground. According to the written testimonies of many Indians, one can also get into the underworld through various caves located near the sacred volcanoes of Popocatelpetl and Inlaquatl. Here, according to the assurances of the same Indians, they sometimes met tall and fair-haired strangers coming out of the dungeon.

Back in his time, the famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fawcett, who visited South America six times, said that he had repeatedly heard from Indians living in mountainous regions that they often see strong, large and golden-haired people descending and ascending into the mountains.

Even 30 years ago, both people and animals disappeared without a trace near Gelendzhik. And in the early 70s of the last century, people accidentally discovered and immediately fenced off a bottomless mine with a diameter of about 1.5 meters. Its walls are smooth, as if polished, without any traces of formwork. Experts almost unanimously say that it must have existed for more than one hundred years and was created using technology not known to modern mankind. The first attempt by scientists and speleologists to carefully examine the phenomenon ended tragically. Of the five members of the expedition, one disappeared, and four died a few days after descending on ropes to a depth of 25 meters. The one who died in the mine descended 30 meters, and at that moment his partners first heard some strange sounds, and then the wild cry of his comrade. Those who remained at the top immediately began to lift their colleague from the mine, but the rope first stretched like a string, and then suddenly weakened. The lower end was cut off like a knife. There were subsequent, however, short-term attempts to study this bottomless well by lowering into it. They gave practically nothing. Then a TV camera was lowered into the mine. The rope was gradually increased up to 200 meters, and all this time the camera showed bare walls. That's all that is known about the Gelendzhik phenomenon today.

Similar bottomless wells have been found on all continents of the planet.

The most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today have no doubts about the existence of a completely unexplored underground empire that stretches under the seas and continents. In their opinion, there are ancient cities and buildings above the entrances to them in various parts of the continents. For example, in their opinion, one of these places is Cusco in Peru.

In this regard, the most intriguing story is about the underground city of La Checana in the Andes. More recently, in the University Library of the city of Cusco, archeology discovered a report on the catastrophe that befell a group of researchers from France and the United States in 1952. In the vicinity of the named city, they found the entrance to the dungeon and began to prepare for the descent into it. Scientists were not going to stay there for a long time, so they took food for 5 days. However, only 15 days later, out of 7 people, only one Frenchman, Philippe Lamontier, got out to the surface. He was exhausted, suffered from memory lapses, almost lost his human appearance, and besides, he soon showed clear signs of infection with the deadly bubonic plague. While in the hospital isolation, the Frenchman was mostly delirious, but still at times spoke of the bottomless abyss into which his companions had fallen. Nobody took his words seriously, and therefore no rescue expedition was carried out. Moreover, out of fear of the plague, which Philippe Lamontier brought with him, the authorities ordered to immediately block the entrance to the dungeon with a reinforced concrete slab. The Frenchman died a few days later, and after him was left a corncob made of pure gold, which he raised with him from the ground. Now this underground find is stored in the Museum of Archeology in Cusco.

Most recently, the most authoritative researcher of the Inca civilization, Dr. Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the tragically lost expedition of the French and Americans. He gathered a group of 6 specialists and obtained permission from the authorities to enter the dungeon through the already explored entrances. However, having outwitted the guards, the archaeologists went into the dungeon through a room that was under the tomb of a dilapidated temple a few kilometers from Cuzco. From here there was a long, gradually narrowing corridor that looked like part of a huge ventilation system. Some time later, the expedition was forced to stop, as the walls of the tunnel, for some unknown reason, did not reflect infrared rays. Then the researchers decided to use a special radio filter, which suddenly worked when tuned to the frequency of aluminum. This fact plunged all participants into complete bewilderment. Where, one wonders, did this metal appear in the prehistoric labyrinth? They began to explore the walls. And it turned out that they have a casing of unknown origin and a high density, which was not taken by any tool. The tunnel steadily continued to narrow until its height reached 90 cm. People had to turn back. On the way back, the guide fled, fearing that he would eventually be severely punished for assisting the scientists in their illegal activities. This ended the expedition. Doctor Centeno was not allowed to repeat further research even in the highest state instances ...

Tibetan lamas say that the ruler Underworld
is the great King of the World, as he is called in the East. And his kingdom
Agharta, based on the principles of the Golden Age - there are at least 60
thousand years. People there do not know evil and do not commit crimes. Unseen
science flourished there, therefore the underground people, who reached
incredible heights of knowledge, does not know diseases and is not afraid of any
cataclysms. The King of the World wisely governs not only millions of his own
underground subjects, but also secretly by the entire population of the surface
parts of the earth. He knows all the hidden springs of the universe, he comprehends the soul
every human being and reads the great book of fates.

The realm of Agartha stretches underground across the entire planet. And under the oceans too.
There is also an opinion that the peoples of Agarta were forced to switch to
underground residence after the universal cataclysm (flood) and immersion
under the water of land - the ancient continents that existed on the site of the present
oceans. As the Himalayan lamas say, in the caves of Agharta there is
a special glow that even allows you to grow vegetables and cereals. Chinese
Buddhists know that the ancient people, who took refuge after another
doomsday underground, lives in the caves of America. Here they are -
Ecuadorian dungeons of Erich von Denniken in the foothills of South American
Andes. Recall that the information gleaned from Chinese sources,
published in 1922, that is, exactly half a century before the indefatigable
the Swiss began his fantastic descent to a depth of 240 meters to
mysterious repositories of ancient knowledge, lost in hard-to-reach
places in the Ecuadorian province of Morona Santiago.

In the underground workshops tireless work is in full swing. All metals melt there.
and forged products from them. In unknown chariots or other perfect
devices rush underground inhabitants through tunnels laid deep
underground. The level of technical development of underground inhabitants exceeds
wildest imagination.

Dungeons of Cusco

An ancient legend is also associated with gold, telling about a secret entrance to a vast labyrinth of underground galleries under a collapsed building. Cathedral of Santo Domingo. As evidenced by the Spanish magazine Mas Alla, which specializes in describing all kinds of historical mysteries, this legend, in particular, tells that there are gigantic tunnels in length that cross the vast mountainous territory of Peru and reach Brazil and Ecuador. In the language of the Quechua Indians, they are called "chinkana", which literally means "maze". In these tunnels, the Incas, allegedly deceiving the Spanish conquistadors, hid a significant part of the gold wealth of their empire in the form of large art objects. Even a specific point in Cusco was indicated, where this labyrinth began and where the temple of the Sun once stood.

It was gold that glorified Cusco (there is still the only museum in the world dedicated to this noble metal). But it also destroyed him. The Spanish conquistadors, who conquered the city, plundered the temple of the Sun, and all its riches, including the golden statues in the garden, were loaded onto ships and sent to Spain. At the same time, there was also a rumor about the existence of underground halls and galleries, where the Incas allegedly hid part of the ritual gold items. This rumor is indirectly confirmed by the chronicle of the Spanish missionary Felipe de Pomares, who told in the 17th century about the fate of the Inca prince, who confessed to his Spanish wife Maria de Esquivel about the mission "sent down to him by the gods": to preserve the most valuable treasures of his ancestors.

Blindfolding his wife, the prince led her through one of the palaces into the dungeon. After a long journey, they ended up in a huge hall. The prince removed the bandage from his wife's eyes, and by the weak light of the torch she saw the golden statues of all the twelve kings of the Incas, reaching the height of a teenager; a lot of gold and silver dishes, figurines of birds and animals made of gold. As a loyal subject of the king and a devout Catholic, Maria de Esquivel denounced her husband to the Spanish authorities, describing her journey in detail. But the prince, sensing something unkind, disappeared. The last thread that could lead to the underground labyrinth of the Incas was cut off.

Archaeologists have found a network of mysterious tunnels in Malta

In Malta, in the city of Valletta, archaeologists have found a network of underground tunnels. Now researchers are scratching their heads: is it an underground city of the Order of Malta, or an ancient water supply or sewage system.
For many centuries it was believed that the Crusader Knights built an underground city on the Mediterranean island of Malta, and among the population there were rumors about the secret passages and military labyrinths of the Order of the Hospitallers.

Cave Ar Dalam

They built a garage, but found ancient tunnels
This winter, researchers found a network of tunnels under the historic center of the Maltese capital Valletta. These tunnels date from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It was then that the knights of one of the largest Christian military orders during the Crusades of the XI-XIII centuries were engaged in strengthening Valletta to repel Muslim attacks.

“Many said that there are passages and even an entire underground city. But the question is - where were these tunnels? Did they exist at all? Now we think we have found at least a small part of these underground structures,” said archaeologist Claude Borg, who took part in the excavations.

The tunnels were discovered on February 24 during an archaeological survey, which was carried out on Palace Square opposite the Palace of the Grand Master. The palace used to belong to the head of the Order of Malta, and today there are legislative institutions and the presidential office of Malta. Archaeological exploration was carried out before the construction of the underground parking.

Mdina

Underground city or aqueduct?
First, the workers found an underground reservoir right under the square. Near its bottom, at a depth of about 12 m, they found a hole in the wall - the entrance to the tunnel. It went under the square and then connected to other canals. An attempt to pass through these corridors was unsuccessful - they were blocked. All found corridors have a high enough vault so that an adult can easily pass there. However, researchers believe that this is only part of an extensive plumbing system.

Architect-restorer Edward Said from Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna says this discovery"Just the tip of the iceberg." In his opinion, the found tunnels are part of the water supply and sewerage system, which also includes corridors where those who watched the tunnels and kept them in order could walk.

Construction of Valletta
The Order of Malta, founded in 1099, became famous for their victories over the Muslims during the Crusades. In 1530, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V gave the island of Malta to the knights. In 1565, the order, under the leadership of Grand Master La Valetta, was attacked by the Ottoman Turks, but managed to withstand the Great Siege of Malta.

However, this military experience forced them to start building a fortress in Malta, named after the master Valletta. The fortification was built on a hill, but there were not enough natural sources of water. According to Sad, the main goal of the builders of the city was to provide themselves with the necessary supplies in case of future sieges.

Saint Paul's Cave

“Soon they realized that the rainwater and springs that were at their disposal would not be enough,” the architect said.

Aqueduct and plumbing
Therefore, the builders erected an aqueduct, the remains of which have survived to this day: water entered the city from a valley located west of Valletta. The location of the tunnels under the Palace Square also confirms the idea that they were built precisely as a water pipe. Probably, a large fountain on Palace Square was supplied through underground channels and a reservoir. When the island was dominated by the British (1814-1964), the fountain was demolished.

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How the knights left
In 1798 Napoleon expelled the knights from Malta. Now the Order of Malta continues to exist, but its residence is in Rome.
“The fountain was a pretty important source of water for the people of the city,” Borg said.

According to Sed, archaeologists have found the remains of centuries-old lead pipes. The corridors connected to this tunnel may have been service passages used by plumbing engineers or so-called fountains.

“The fountain engineer, along with a team of workers, had to check the operation of the system and keep the fountain in good condition. They also turned off the fountain at night,” Sad said.

The underground city didn't exist?
The tales of secret military passages, according to Sed, have more basis. Under the fortress walls, there really could be secret corridors for warriors. However, according to Sed, most of the legends about the underground city are actually stories about the plumbing and sewerage system.

According to the researcher, Valletta's pipeline system was very progressive for its time. If, for example, we compare Valletta with such major cities of that time, like London or Vienna, the Maltese city of the 16th-17th centuries was much cleaner, while others were literally buried in mud.

After these finds, the Maltese government announced that the construction of an underground parking lot was being postponed. A new fountain is to be installed in the square, and the tunnels, Sed hopes, will subsequently be opened to the general public.

Mexico. Mitla. Mayan underground structures

According to the members of the LAI expedition, these structures have a high quality finish and look more like a bunker. They also notice that according to some details it can be judged that the Indians did not build, but only restored one of these structures from the blocks lying around in the vicinity.

Underground Giza

Pyramids, the Sphinx, the ruins of ancient temples on the Giza Plateau have been striking the imagination of people for more than one millennium. And here is a new discovery. It has been established that huge, completely unexplored underground structures are hidden under the pyramids. Scientists suggest that the network of tunnels can extend for tens of kilometers.

Studying one of the tombs, scientists accidentally leaned on the wall, and the rock collapsed. Archaeologists have found the beginning of one of the tunnels. Later, there was confidence that the tunnels permeate the entire Giza plateau, on which the great pyramids stand. The chief curator of antiquities of Egypt said that a group of local and foreign archaeologists began work on compiling a kind of map of the underground passages under the pyramids. The work is carried out both on the ground and from the air using aerial photography. Exploring the tunnels will allow you to take a fresh look at the entire pyramid complex of Giza.

There are about 300 archaeological expeditions in Egypt. Their goal is to study and preserve already found objects. Now several groups of scientists are excavating a unique temple. It may even outshine the famous temple in Luxor. There is reason to believe that underground is a huge, previously unknown complex of buildings, palaces and temples. A big obstacle for scientists is that on the lands that covered these unique structures, houses have already been built, roads and communications have been laid.

Since the declassification of the new deep-seated radar 2 years ago, information about underground complexes and labyrinths from many places in the world began to appear. In places like Guatemala in South America, tunnels have been documented under the Tikal complex, leading across the country for 800 kilometers. The researchers note that it is possible with the help of these tunnels that the Maya avoided the complete destruction of their culture.

In early 1978, a similar radar (SIRA) was deployed in Egypt and incredible underground complexes were discovered under Egyptian pyramids. A research agreement was signed with Egyptian President Sadat, and this secret project has been going on for 3 decades.

Dungeons Kolobros

The Huaraz plateau in the Western Cordillera has long been considered the secret refuge of the sorcerers of Peru. They say they can call the spirits of the dead and materialize them. They can sharply raise and lower the temperature of the surrounding air, which is necessary for the appearance of "shining carts controlled by heavenly patrons." Unfortunately, few of the strangers managed to become participants in these magical rites. One of them, the Englishman Joseph Ferrier, visited the mysterious underground settlement of Kolobros in 1922. And he was so shocked by what he saw that he was not too lazy to write a lengthy essay for the magazine "British Pathfinder", prefaced with an oath assurance: "I vouch for the absolute truthfulness of the stated."

Joseph Ferrier is silent about how he managed to become a guest of the system of underground labyrinths forbidden to outsiders, “very intricate and cramped, almost unsuitable for free breathing and movement, but with halls in which they are forced to live from birth to death. Because the life of each hereditary sorcerer has a special, nowhere else, except on the local plateau, does not occur meaning. What is this meaning? According to Ferrier, as follows:

“Underground sorcerers do not draw a line between the world of the living and the world of the dead. It is believed that both the living and the dead are only spirits. The only difference is that until the moment of death, the spirit of each of us languishes in the body shell. After death, it is released, becoming a spirit outside the body. Therefore, with special techniques, sorcerers achieve that the spirits that have taken on flesh can be next to us, among us. You can not believe it, but copies of these once living ones are found in labyrinths, walking among the living. I myself have repeatedly confused phantoms with people. Only the sorcerers of Kolobros do not confuse.

Rites of materialization, creations of phantoms, are practiced in great hall having the shape of an isosceles triangle. The walls and ceiling are covered with copper plates. The floor is paved with wedge-shaped bronze slabs.

“As soon as I crossed the threshold of this ritual chamber,” writes Ferrier, “I immediately received eight or ten electric shocks. Doubts disappeared. The metallized room was not much different from the metallized internal volume of the capacitor bank, and, apparently, was needed by sorcerers-mediums for their afterlife rites. As I was convinced, when they stood up in their loincloths, clasped their hands, and began a song without words. My ears buzzed. I bit my tongue as I saw thin silver bands begin to spin around the heads of the sorcerers, scattering wet, cold sparkles. Glitter fell on the copper underfoot, forming a kind of cobweb, red as blood. Faintly visible resemblances of human bodies sprouted slowly from the web. They stood, vibrating unsteadily from the drafts of the galleries. The sorcerers, having opened their hands and stopped singing, began, dancing, to rub the resin columns installed in the center of the hall with shreds of wool. Several minutes passed. The air was saturated with electricity, began to flicker.

Having found the power of speech, I asked the sorcerer Aotuk, what will happen next? Aotuk said that further on, the shadows of the summoned dead will become solid, suitable for being in our world. The sorcerers of the Kolobros dungeon have achieved the impossible. Obeying the most ancient magical techniques, discharged, light as smoke, the shadows became completely indistinguishable from people - thinking, with beating hearts, capable of lifting and carrying loads weighing up to ten kilograms, sometimes more. The rites of "humanization of incorporeal spirits" seemed to Ferrier similar to the European medieval rituals of summoning the dead. Whether this is so can be judged by an excerpt from the essay:

“The ritual of luring the dead, the most dangerous for sorcerers, takes a lot of bodily strength. The best time for the Sabbath to take place is between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. Magical New Year in the labyrinths of Kolobros begins on November 1 with a “silent supper” around an altar table covered with a triangular canvas, on which there are a pewter goblet, a black cord and a censer, an iron trident and a knife, an hourglass, seven burning candles.

Each sorcerer wears on his chest a protective golden pictogram in the form of a grinning skull framed by four lead bones. As soon as it is closer to midnight, the upper vessel of the clock is freed from sand, the sorcerers burn incense and begin to invite guests to a meal. The trident at their approach begins to flash blue light, the knife - red. The cord is completely burned out. A flame is knocked out of the floor, repeating the contours of the Egyptian sacred cross, symbolizing eternal life. Throwing into the fire a wooden skull and bones - the sign of Osiris - the sorcerers loudly exclaim: "Rise from the dead!" The chief sorcerer pierces the flaming cross with a luminous trident. The flame is immediately extinguished. Candles go out too. Silence saturated with the smell of incense falls. A strong phosphorescent glow spreads under the ceiling.

“Go away, go away, shadows of the dead. We will not let you near us until you become alive for us. Let there be agreement between us. Let it be!” - sorcerers scream deafeningly. There are no more shadows. Instead of shadows, there are detailed bodily repetitions that can be consulted when important decisions need to be made.

Ask why underground clothing sorcerers prefer loincloths? Because negotiations with the resurrected thin the fabrics of clothes, no matter how good the fabrics are. I had a new linen suit. A few conversations with the resurrected, a few touches to them - and my suit fell into disrepair, as happens under the influence of decay.

Ferrier argues that the resurrected are not eternal. Each lingers among the sorcerers of Kolobros for a year at most: “When the figure of the “neighbor” fades, when his internal energy is depleted, a rite of return to the shadows is arranged for him - a quick, purely formal one. How else? Knowledge received. "Neighbour" is not needed. He, no matter how much the sorcerers would like, will not return again. However, it is from this fleeting rite that the main rite, the heavenly carts, originates. Ferrier writes nothing about the magical components of this action. He only reports that he saw how, in the sky over the Huaraz plateau, "fiery wheels swept through with a terrible roar and rattle and crashed into the edge of the Colobros canyon." The sorcerers did not allow him to meet with the "gods of the seventh heaven", referring to the fact that mere mortals cannot communicate with immortals. To Ferrier's objection that the sorcerers themselves, being mortals, still meet with the heavenly gods, the inhabitants of Kolobros replied that contacts were not frequent, they were carried out only at the initiative of the immortals, who made the meetings safe. Describing the level of knowledge of the gods, Ferrier says that they have gone so far ahead that they "have long forgotten what the best minds of mankind are just beginning to think about." Even experienced speleologists do not dare to visit the labyrinths of Kolobros now. One of them, American Michael Stern, dreams of going there. The expedition is planned for the summer of 2008, not paying attention to the increasing natural anomalies. These are local earthquakes, and night above-ground glows, and mud geysers in the labyrinth area, and flights of fireballs, and "landing" of ghosts with pear-shaped heads. The locals have no doubt that the dungeons of Kolobros are still inhabited. The way there by a stranger without the knowledge of the owners is ordered. Stern persists: “I am not a slave to superstition, I do not believe in sorcerers. For me, Kolobros is just a system of deep, difficult to pass caves, nothing more.” At the beginning of the last century, Joseph Ferrier also thought so ...

Agarthi (Agarthi) - underground country

The only and still unconfirmed sources of information about the mysterious Agharti are the publication of the Pole F. Ossendowski, a member of the Council of Ministers in the government of Kolchak, who occupied the period civil war in the Siberian government the post of director of the Credit Office2, who subsequently fled to Mongolia, and, published twelve years earlier, the work of Saint-Yves d'Alveidre "Mission of India". Both authors argue about the existence of the underworld - a spiritual center that has a non-human origin, and stores the Primordial wisdom, passing it through the centuries from generation to generation by secret societies. The inhabitants of the underworld are far superior in their technical development to mankind, they have mastered unknown energies and are connected with all continents through underground passages. A comparative analysis of both versions of the myth about Agharti was carried out in his work “King of the World” by the French scientist Rene Guenon: “If there really are two versions of this story, coming from sources very distant from each other, then it was interesting to find them and make a thorough comparison.”

The French esoteric thinker, the Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveidre (1842-1909) left a significant mark on history by writing books on occult ancient history3 and formulating a new universal law of history and human society, which he called "Synarchy". The ideas of the new world order, set forth in the teachings of Saint-Yves "Synarchy", attracted the attention of the future leaders of the National Socialist Party in Germany. According to Saint-Yves, all information about Agartha was received by him “from the Afghan prince Harji Sharif, the envoy of the World Occult Government” and the center of Agartha is located in the Himalayas. This is a whole cave center with a population of 20 million people - “the most secret sanctuary of the Earth”, keeping in its depths the annals of mankind for the entire time of its evolution on this earth for 556 centuries, written on stone tablets4. The chronology of mankind and the prescription of the teachings of Saint-Yves, based on Indian sources, elevates to the era of the progenitor of mankind, the legendary Manu, i.e. 55,647 years ago. In his literary work, oriented, as he wrote, "for educated people, the most enlightened secular people and statesmen," Saint-Yves describes in detail and convincingly state structure Agharti and gives quite original details, for example, such as:

“The modern mystical name of the Rama Cycle Sanctuary was given to it approximately 5100 years ago, after the schism of Irshu. This name is "Agarta", which means: "inaccessible to violence", "unattainable to Anarchy". It is enough for my readers to know that in some areas of the Himalayas, among 22 temples depicting 22 arcana of Hermes and 22 letters of some sacred alphabets5, Agartha constitutes the mystical Zero (0). "Unfindable".
* “None of our terrible punishment systems apply in Agharta, and there are no prisons. There is no death penalty. Begging, prostitution, drunkenness, cruel individualism are completely unknown in Agharti. The division into castes is unknown.
* “Among the tribes expelled from the great University (Agarta) there is one wandering tribe, which, starting from the 15th century, shows its strange experiments to all Europe. This is the true origin of the gypsies (Bohami - in Sankr., "Get away from me").
* Agarta can follow the Souls on all the ascending levels of the worlds up to the extreme limits of our solar system. In some cosmic periods one can see and speak with the dead. This is one of the mysteries of the ancient Ancestor Cult."
* The sages of Agartha "tested on our Planet the boundaries of the last flood and determined the possible starting point for its renewal in thirteen or fourteen centuries."
* "The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, was initiated into the Sanctuary of Agartta, but he could not take his notes out of Agartta and subsequently dictated to his first disciples only what his memory was able to retain."
* “Not a single initiate can take away from Agarta the original texts of her scientific works, because, as I have already said, they are engraved on stone in the form of characters incomprehensible to the crowd. The Threshold of the Sanctuary is inaccessible without the will of the disciple. Its basement is built magically, in various ways in which the Divine word plays a role, as in all ancient temples.
* "The sacred texts, due to political conditions, have been systematically changed everywhere, with the exception of only one Agartha, where all the lost secrets of the Hebrew-Egyptian text of our own Holy Scriptures and the keys to their mysteries are preserved"

Saint-Yves does not give an answer to the question of where Agharta is located, there is only one indirect indication in the text that Agart symbolically touches Afghanistan with his head, and with his feet, i.e. its foot rests on Burma. This territory corresponds to the area of the Himalayan mountains, little explored at that time. The amazing description of the most secret sanctuary on Earth, which has lost ancient knowledge, subsequently inspired both various scientists and adventurers, as well as statesmen from different countries, who plan to send expeditions to the little-explored regions of Central Asia, in particular, to establish an alliance with Agartha.

The first to announce about his contact with an underground civilization living in the bowels of the earth, was the writer, journalist and researcher Richard Shaver, laid the foundation for a new direction in the science of the paranormal. Shaver's story is a storyabout mysterious creatures, about underground civilizations, about mind control, about conspiracies in the statelevel, about evil intentions and evil thoughts ...

The story of civilizations created by races of mysterious underground creatures, written by Richard Shaver, first appeared in 1946 in the pages of the American magazine "Amazing Stories", dedicated to the study of paranormal phenomena. Shaver told readers about contact with aliens living underground. According to the magazine, he lived for several weeks in the underworld, inhabited by cruel mutant creatures, similar to demons, described in ancient legends and tales of the peoples of the Earth. The article received a response of fifty thousand letters, the authors of most of which claimed that Shaver was absolutely right and that there really are underground cities, and evil creatures in them, and advanced machines that surf the bowels of the planet and allow you to control the consciousness of earthlings.

Of course, this story looks more than strange, nevertheless, it had a huge impact on the public, creating a new direction of research in the field of the paranormal.

Back in the 17th century, scientists such as the English astronomer Edmund Halley believed that the Earth was an empty sphere. A hundred years before William Reed wrote The Phantoms of the Poles, and Jules Verne, who later created Journey to the Center of the Earth, was only nine years old, the American writer Edgar Allan Poe published his longest work, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, which told about a fantastic civilization that thrives in the bowels of the Earth. In the 19th century, American officer John Simms shocked the public with his statement about the need to send a research expedition into the bowels of our planet through holes in the earth's crust, presumably located at the poles. Many scientists have tried to prove that the Earth is a hollow sphere, and inside there are huge plateaus on which entire civilizations may well be located. The scientists of the Third Reich were also interested in the mysterious world that exists inside the planet.

In April 1942, with the support of Goering and Himmler, an expedition consisting of the most advanced minds of Nazi Germany, led by Professor Heinz Fischer, set out to look for an entrance to an underground civilization, supposedly located on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. Hitler was convinced that at least parts of the earth consisted of voids within which one could live and which had long been home to the highly developed peoples of antiquity. German scientists, in turn, expected that if they managed to place modern radar devices at the right geographical point under the surface of the earth, then with their help it would be possible to track the exact location of the enemy in any part of the world.

Almost every nation has myths about the race of Ancient beings that inhabited the world millions of years ago. Infinitely wise, scientifically advanced and culturally developed, these creatures, driven underground by terrible catastrophes, created their own civilization there, giving them everything they need. They want nothing to do with people they see as mean, dirty, and wild, but sometimes steal human children to raise as their own. Ancient creatures look like ordinary people and live for a very long time, but they appeared on our planet millions of years before us.

In 1977, photographs taken from the ECCA-7 satellite appeared in several American magazines, showing a regular dark spot, similar to a huge hole, in the place where the North Pole should be located. Identical photographs were taken by the same satellite in 1981.

Writer and anthropologist James McKenna discovered a cave in Idaho, which the local Indians considered the entrance to the underworld and were terribly afraid to even approach it. Having gone to explore a strange cave, Makkena and his companions, having advanced several hundred meters deep, were soon forced to return due to the unbearable smell of gases and sulfur. According to their stories, in the depths of a natural stone corridor, which seemed to them endless, they clearly heard screams and groans, and along the way they came across several human skeletons.

The story of the English geologist Ronald Kalas, who heard in one of the mining towns a story about a group of workers digging an underground tunnel, is also interesting. They heard the sounds of working machines coming from under the giant stone. Lifting the stone, the workers found steps leading down. Thinking that they managed to find an ancient tomb, the workers descended the stairs and ended up in a giant grotto. The sounds of running machines became even louder. Frightened by what was happening, the men ran away.

A similar incident happened to two American miners David Fellin and Henry Thorne, who in 1963, while working in Pennsylvania in one of the mines, saw a huge door, behind which were marble steps leading down. Geologists consider the theory of the Earth's cavity to be naive, but some of them do not deny the possibility of the existence of huge hollow spaces underground, a kind of caves, however, it is hardly possible for an ordinary person to live in them. It is full of gases, there is little oxygen and the temperature is very high, and this is what prompted the researchers to create a new hypothesis: the theory of their extraterrestrial origin entered the competition with the theory of the Atlantean origin of underground civilizations.

Presumably highly developed extraterrestrial beings, or gods of antiquity, got tired of the constant wars and strife of mankind and moved to underground cities, from where they still observe the development of people. They were not immortal, but thanks to their scientific achievements, they were able to discover the secret of rare longevity, create incredible technical devices that allow them to move at supersonic speeds, create three-dimensional projections, cure any disease and scan the area over gigantic distances. It is they who periodically appear in the sky on “flying saucers”, which we take for alien vehicles. Such a theory could explain why satellite radars don't detect UFOs in the sky, why extraterrestrial civilizations waste so much time and fuel on seemingly meaningless journeys from their worlds to ours, why they don't make open contact with humans. The reason for everything is the fact that UFOs do not come to us from outer space, but from the depths of our own planet. This would really explain a lot, including the secrecy of representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations: it is not difficult to imagine what will happen if it turns out that UFOs should be looked for not in inaccessible galaxies, but under our feet.

And here another important question arises. If the Earth is indeed at least partially hollow, why has the entrance to its interior not yet been discovered? Perhaps the most interesting explanation is the hypothesis of a group of scientists from the United States who believe that the system of underground corridors and underground cities exist in the fourth dimension. Sometimes, during the period of changes in the electromagnetic field of the planet, tunnels appear on its surface, allowing you to get into the fourth dimension and see the underground worlds with your own eyes, or these worlds appear in our dimension and become available to the eyes of casual visitors. The rest of the time this is not possible. Some researchers believe that it was for the purpose of penetrating underground cities on Earth that Stonehenge and others were built. megalithic structures, serving as a kind of gate that opens the entrance to other dimensions. Time will tell whether there is truth in such assumptions, but one thing is clear even now: sometimes the most ridiculous, the strangest hypotheses turn out to be true. So, perhaps, UFOs really do not come to us “from there”, but “from here”, rising into the sky from the bowels of our planet. That would explain a lot. Is not it?

Few people think that under the streets of megacities there are entire communities that constantly live underground. UFO WORLD publishes an overview of unique underground communities.

1. Bucharest, Romania

Beneath the streets of the Romanian capital Bucharest, there is a network of tunnels that are a haven for a group of drug addicted, HIV-infected and runaway children and teenagers. Their leader (or, as he calls himself, "father") is known by the nickname "Bruce Lee". You can get into this underground community through an ordinary hatch in the middle of the street, but outsiders are not allowed to enter there.

Those invited to the Bucharest underground describe it as a parallel universe, where abandoned children roam, and teenagers use drugs, where there are a lot of dogs and cats picked up on the street, where there is not the slightest problem with electricity, where light floods the corridors around the clock, where stereos rattle club music, and under feet even have artificial grass. The citizens of Bucharest not only know what is happening below, but many even praise Bruce Lee.

After the ban on contraception and abortion in 1966, orphans and vagrants filled the streets of the city. Bruce Lee not only picked up these children from the streets, he provided a safe haven for those who would otherwise freeze in the winter or fall prey to a maniac. Bruce even pays protection money to a local gang to keep his kids safe.

2. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

As Mongolia transitioned from socialism to capitalism, many citizens were left homeless and jobless. As temperatures often drop to -34 degrees Celsius in winter in Ulaanbaatar, about 4,000 abandoned children and a number of adults have taken refuge in the sewer system, where hot water pipes run.

Thanks to the work of international volunteer groups, many of the children were rescued from the sewers, but the adults who made their homes in the tunnels under the city still live there. Witnesses describe the inhabitants of this underground shelter as outcasts who spend their days drinking the strongest Mongolian moonshine, after which they try to find food in a drunken stupor.

3. Kazan, Russia

During the investigation of the attack on the Muslim spiritual leader of Tatarstan, Ildus Faizov, the police discovered an 8-level bunker under one of the city's mosques in Kazan. Under the ground was an Islamic sect of 27 children and 38 adults, living like monks in cells. Many of these children were kept in unheated quarters, never saw a doctor, never went to school, and never even saw the light of day.

The bunker was the brainchild of 83-year-old sect leader Fayzrakhman Satarov. Allegedly in the mid-1960s, after noticing sparks from a trolleybus cable, Satarov interpreted them as divine intervention. He declared himself an Islamic prophet and built a bunker at a religious school. After the discovery of an underground sect, Satarov refused to leave his underground Islamic state, but in the end the bunker was destroyed, and the children were provided medical care and proper care.

4. Yan'an, China

Thanks to loose loess soils in China's Yan'an, more than 30 million Chinese farmers have returned to cave life. They dig cave dwellings for themselves in the ground or gouge them into the rocks. While more elaborate caves are reinforced with brickwork, ordinary one-two-person caves (called yaodongs) are vaulted chambers dug into the side of a mountain. Their entrances are draped with rice paper and blankets, the walls are plastered with white lime and decorated with paintings and magazine clippings. Many caves are inherited and passed down from one generation to the next.

5. Paris, France

The Catacombs of Paris, also known as the "Empire of the Dead", is a huge 320-kilometer underground cemetery. It is the final resting place for more than six million people. During an exercise near the Palais de Chaillot, Parisian police stumbled upon the secret society's headquarters, which was equipped with electricity, a telephone line, and even restaurants with movie theaters. Swastikas, Celtic crosses and Stars of David were painted on the ceiling.

In the first tunnel, the police found a video camera recording everyone entering, and an automatic recording of dogs barking, which was supposed to scare away people who accidentally got into the tunnel. The tunnel led to an 18-meter cave, which was equipped with a cinema screen, seats carved into the rock, projection equipment and a collection of various films. A smaller cave nearby had a fully furnished restaurant and bar. When the police returned a few days later to investigate the power source, they found that the power cables and telephone lines had been removed, and in the middle of the cave on the floor lay a cryptic note: "Do not try to find us."

6. Moscow, Russia

In Moscow, under the former Cherkizovsky market, which was closed in 2009, a police raid found 260 illegal workers living in underground utilities. Most of them were Vietnamese. There were also immigrants from the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Migrants had to work in hellish conditions for almost a penny. Since they were in the country illegally, and there was no money to rent an apartment in Moscow, the workers were forced to live and build a local community in the tunnels. Under the former market, they found mini sewing workshops, a casino, a cafe, a chicken coop and even an impromptu cinema.

7. New Kingston, Jamaica

In the dungeons of New Kingston, where tourism flourishes, there is a society of outcast people who are forced to live in the sewers solely because of their sexual orientation. Given that 85 percent of Jamaicans oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage, homophobia is a cultural norm in this country. As a result, homosexuals are subjected to harassment, violence and even murder. They even carry out police raids. Although sewers often flood during rainstorms, the local LGBT community on the surface is simply in danger of death.

8. Las Vegas, Nevada

Beneath the neon-lit buildings, under the feet of the endless hordes of tourists that dot the streets of Las Vegas, there are 320 km of storm tunnels that some 1,000 people call home. In separate rooms of 37 square meters there are double beds, wardrobes, showers, and reproductions of paintings and bookshelves hang on the walls. Separately, it is worth clarifying that all this is on concrete slabs lying on the floor, since the tunnels are constantly half-flooded. The entire tunnel system looks like one big art gallery, the walls of which are covered with intricate graffiti.

9. Mount Hebron, Palestine

About 1,000 Palestinians have been living in the caves of Mount Hebron, scientists believe, for centuries. They are a self-sufficient society that exists thanks to agriculture. For centuries they have been producing milk and cheese for personal use, as well as for trade with the surrounding villages. There are no paved roads, and locals travel on foot or on horseback with donkeys. Cave people have neither running water nor electricity, and they receive medical services or education only thanks to donations from the inhabitants of nearby villages. Unfortunately, many people are driven out of the caves that previously belonged to their ancestors.

10. Shoyna, Russia

The small Russian village of Shoyna, located on the shore White Sea, was built in the 1930s as a base for the fishing fleet. However, fishing with trawls led to the destruction of benthic vegetation, due to which, in the 1950s, the wind began to carry thousands of tons of sand washed up by the sea around the area.

Entire buildings were soon buried under the sand dunes, and by the 1980s most of the village was hidden under the sand. Shoyna's population has shrunk from 2,000 to 375, most of whom enter their homes through attics or hatches cut into the roof. It is pointless to dig houses out from under multi-meter drifts, since they are again drifted.

Voids in the earth's crust are found all over the world, and an underground civilization can actually exist, given the fairly comfortable living conditions underground. The mention of an underground civilization in the myths of different peoples and on different continents is quite common. And the latest scientific discoveries confirm the possibility of life underground.

It is difficult to find a people who would not have legends about creatures living in the darkness of the dungeons. They were much older than the human race and were descended from dwarfs who disappeared from the surface of the earth. They possessed secret knowledge and crafts. In relation to people, the inhabitants of the dungeons, as a rule, were hostile. Therefore, it can be assumed that the fairy tales describe the real, and perhaps even today existing, underground world.

Entrance to the underground tunnel in Sacsayhuaman

There are especially many stories about the mysterious South American tunnels. Even the famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fossett, who visited South America many times, mentioned in his books about extended caves located near the volcanoes Popocatepetl and Inlaquatl and in the region of Mount Shasta. Some researchers managed to see fragments of this underground empire. Archaeologists recently unearthed a report from a 1952 catastrophe in a university library in Cusco, in the Andes, about a group of researchers from France and the United States. In the vicinity of the city, they found the entrance to the dungeon and began to prepare to descend into it. Archaeologists were not going to stay there for a long time, so they took food for five days. However, only one of the seven participants made it to the surface after 15 days - the Frenchman Philippe Lamontier. He was emaciated, remembered almost nothing, and soon showed signs of the deadly bubonic plague. But still, it was possible to learn from him that his companions fell into a bottomless abyss. The authorities, fearing the spread of the plague, hastened to block the entrance to the dungeon with a reinforced concrete slab. The Frenchman died a few days later, but a pure gold corncob he found underground remained.

The researcher of the Inca civilization, Dr. Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the missing expedition. A group of enthusiasts entered the dungeon through a room under the tomb of a dilapidated temple a few kilometers from Cuzco. At first they walked along a long, gradually narrowing corridor, similar to a pipe of a huge ventilation system. Suddenly, the walls of the tunnel stopped reflecting infrared rays. Using a special spectrograph, the researchers determined that the walls contained a large amount of aluminum. When scientists tried to take a sample from the wall, it turned out that its sheathing is very strong and not a single tool can take it. The tunnel continued to narrow, and when its diameter decreased to 90 centimeters, the researchers had to turn back.

Underground civilization of Peru, Chavin de Huantar catacombs

There are pictures of fragments of global dungeons in North America. The author of the book about Shambhala, Andrew Thomas, on the basis of a thorough analysis of the stories of American speleologists, claims that there are direct underground passages in the mountains of California that lead to the state of New Mexico.

A sublatitudinal tunnel stretching from the Crimea to the east in the region of the Ural Mountains intersects with another, stretched from north to east. It is along this tunnel that you can hear stories about "divya people", who at the beginning of the last century went out to the locals. "Divya people", - is told in epics, common in the Urals, - they live in the Ural Mountains, they have exits to the world through caves. Their culture is great. The “Divya people” are small in stature, very beautiful and have a pleasant voice, but only the elite can hear them ... An old man from the “Divya people” comes to the square and predicts what will happen. An unworthy person does not hear or see anything, and the peasants in those places know everything that the Bolsheviks are hiding.
Mikhail Kostin
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The underground world of the Urals

At all times, people believed that there were several heavens, lying one above the other. Both the earth itself and the underground spaces were thought of as plural. Numerous Ural legends tell that an unusual and mysterious tribe lives in the bowels of the mountains, which is carefully hidden from people.
At all times, people believed that there were several heavens, lying one above the other. Both the earth itself and the underground spaces were thought of as plural. Numerous Ural legends tell that an unusual and mysterious tribe lives in the bowels of the mountains, which is carefully hidden from people. At night, as legend has it, certain time Years in remote places, hills open up, and a strange unearthly light pouring from them with quiet, captivating sounds, beckons random travelers to the country of dwarfs who were forced to go underground in ancient times.

In one of his first stories, “Dear Name,” P.P. Bazhov wrote about the Chud or “old people” - a tall, beautiful people living in dwellings of unusual beauty inside the mountains. These people are almost invisible to others. They live without knowing self-interest, indifferent to gold. When people appear in the deaf places of their habitat, they leave through underground passages, "closing the mountain." The legend about Chud in the Urals has different presentations, but it all boils down to the fact that some dark-skinned people lived here, possessing yogic abilities and possessing extensive and deep knowledge about nature.

The folklore of the Urals directly points to the path to a magical underground country. For example, the storyteller Bazhov has the following lines: “Look at the lakes and you will see in one middle a stone standing with a poke, like a hill. There are pines on one side, and on three - bare, like the walls are laid out. This is where this place is. Whoever gets to this stone with gold, the passage will open down, under the lake.

In the book by O.R. Hoffmann "Russian Atlantis. Russia - the cradle of civilization? we read: “Once in a century there is a night when, not far from Mount Taganay, the earth opens up and the city of “divine people” appears. On this night, the “Divya people” arrange a big holiday, and on the same night you can hear predictions of the future from them, because they are great astrologers and they can foresee a lot.

Representatives of the parallel world were observed by lonely eyewitnesses not only in the distant past. Messages about them come and in our days. So, a resident of the Ural hinterland, V. Kochetov, said: “There is a tunnel in large rocks that goes deep into many kilometers. People said that they saw small figures near him, who were doing something near the water. These little men come out only at night, and when they go back, they block up the entrance behind them. I did not meet them myself, because. I don't usually go at night. But one day, when I was late looking for a lost goat, I had the feeling that someone was following me. The crunch of branches, an incomprehensible rustling in the grass, the movement of someone's luminous eyes, an obsessive whisper around the rocks gave rise to disturbing thoughts, and I wanted to quickly leave that place.
What is alarming is the invariability of the areas where such evidence has appeared over the centuries. Even a specific reference is given: the underground country of the Urals extends from the river. Gremikha to the river. Sysert. It is also identified with the system of underground palaces. copper mountain Mistresses and contacts the giant snake Poloz. The mysterious place where this Poloz lived was the huge Gallen swamp, stretching for tens of kilometers. The snake was observed throughout the Urals when it crawled out of underground tunnels - most often in those forests and mountains where gold was deposited. The legends, in addition to Poloz, contain information about goblin, mermaids, prodigal places and hidden treasures. No less legendary are the remains of the Chud settlement near the town of Polevskoy and other well-known antiquities.
The ethnographer A. Onuchkov at the beginning of the 20th century wrote about the "Divy people" - underground inhabitants who owned a "secret power", who live on the territory of the modern Urals and have exits to the outside through caves. “They have the greatest culture, and the light they have in the mountains is not worse than the sun. Divya people are small in stature, very beautiful and with a pleasant voice, but only the elite can hear them. They foreshadow different events for people. They say that the Chud (“divya people”, siriti) set up entire underground cities, which are still inhabited by representatives of the once powerful people. It is noteworthy that caves of unknown origin were discovered in the Irbit region, similar to artificial ones and too cramped for a person of ordinary build.

One of the caves in the mountains of the Middle Urals is called Divya. Legends about undersized, shaggy humanoid creatures are associated with it. Until the 40s of the last century, there were rumors among local residents that this cave stretches for several kilometers, and “divya people” lived in its most distant parts. The unexplored passages of the Divya cave were found by an expedition of speleologists from Moscow State University, led by Valentin Aleksensky. The researchers found that the cave really stretches for many kilometers in length and there are still unknown parts littered with clay plugs.

Not very far from the Divya cave there is another one - Sungan, which is also associated with legends about the underground Chud. Speleologists descending to the "second bottom" of the cave and organizing an autonomous camp there, talk about an incomprehensible, unfounded horror that grips them in one of the passages of the cave. Some of them even saw some kind of shaggy creature in the beams of a lantern, which emerged from a narrow hole, which no one has yet passed.

Mount Azov stands out from the folklore of the Middle Urals. Its top is crowned with two vertically standing rocks, to which pagans have come to worship since time immemorial, and a sacrificial place of the Bronze Age. It is famous primarily for the fact that it is here that the caves are located, in which the "old people" supposedly live, as Bazhov called them. These are the keepers of countless treasures and magical knowledge, who promised to come out to people when they become morally pure. The search for passages to the caves of the "old people" continues to this day. Geologists who have explored this area have found that there can be caves in diorites (the rocks from which the rocks of the Azov-mountain are composed) but only of artificial origin.
Researcher national park"Taganai", a geologist and local historian Marina Sereda, collects modern tourist stories related to the appearance of "small, white, fluffy little men" on the Taganay mountain range (Chelyabinsk region). These little men lie in wait for lonely travelers, do something with them, after which the second one develops a painful condition, the psyche is disturbed. Patients of a psychiatric hospital in the city of Zlatoust, coming directly from Taganay, tell doctors about what they have experienced. For some reason, all their testimonies are very similar to each other - some creatures of small stature always appear there.

It is appropriate to mention the Tobolsk swamp of the Tyumen region. This place is full of mounds - ancient burials, with which many legends are associated. Among them there is also a tribe of some dwarfs who allegedly lived here several thousand years ago and fought with ... common cranes, taking away their eggs. In 2004, a strange legend was unexpectedly confirmed: next to two burial mounds, local hunters found miniature skulls, clearly human. It seems that the height of the people who owned the remains did not exceed half a meter. According to popular rumor, Siberian dwarfs disappeared when an unknown and extremely cruel tribe came to the Trans-Urals. Not wanting to fall into the hands of enemies, the Siberians dug deep ditches with heavy sheds and buried themselves alive...

It can be seen that the legends associated with the places of Chud - mounds and settlements, underground caves and passages - having arisen in the north-west of Russia, followed the Russian settlers, first to the Urals, and then to the Altai. The stability of all legends over the centuries makes us pay more attention to the mystery of the underground-parallel country.
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The Hopi American Indians have legends that describe lizard people. The Reptoids allegedly built three underground cities along the Pacific coast 5,000 years ago, including one under the site where present-day Los Angeles is located. In 1934, the geophysicist and engineer Shufeld decided to investigate the cause of these legends, using a device he patented to detect cavities and metals underground - which he did in the location of the city. The result was amazing - under the city was an extensive network of tunnels. There is a plan that was once published in the Los Angeles Times: But the most interesting thing is that Shufeld's device accurately showed the presence of a large amount of gold in the "rooms" connected by tunnels.

Plan of the tunnels under Los Angeles. Underground civilization
The engineer even received permission from the authorities to excavate and drill the mine - and as soon as he began work, the authorities were worried about the state of nearby houses and the threat of collapse. Work was interrupted and never resumed. Shufeld also disappeared from the public eye, never to reappear. His further fate is unknown.
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In 1976, in the Czech Republic, it was decided to conduct an experiment to assess the behavior of people isolated from the outside world. To do this, a dozen military men were placed in a cave in the Krkshona mountain range, while providing them with everything necessary, incl. intellectual and physical labor, so as not to degrade.
They put a wiretap in the cave...

After 5 months, the subjects began to hear voices. The soldiers began to talk among themselves about the underground country that these voices suggest they visit. By the end of the sixth month, the soldiers cut off the communication wires and the scientists had to hastily send a group to evacuate. In the cave, scientists found only one soldier, the rest disappeared and their search did not lead to anything. It's up to you to decide how to relate to this story, but it somehow fits the theme of life underground.

According to the modern Kiev archaeologist and art critic Julius Lifshits, the caves arose as a monastery cemetery. The monk died - they dug the cave further, made a cell-tomb, laid the holy relics in it and hid the shovels until the death of the next elder monk. A little later, they dug out and built an underground church in the same place: according to Orthodox canons, it is supposed to have a church for funerals in the cemetery. But this version is not welcomed at the official level. It deprives the Slavs of that mysticism, which seems to justify the need for the Slavs (especially the southern ones) to follow a special historical path. Europeans built fortresses and castles, and our ancestors built dungeons and catacombs.

Despite the fact that the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Holy Assumption Lavra have been studied, they keep many secrets. Some corridors have not been used for a very long time due to collapses. This is especially true of the Far Caves, all the exits of which towards the Dnieper have long been abandoned, and in the 1930s they were bricked up and tightly cemented ... Today, there are 73 tombs with the relics of the saints in the Near Caves of the Lavra and 51 in the Far Caves. In addition, there are 32 myrrh-streaming chapters. These Orthodox shrines are the object of worship for tens of thousands of pilgrims visiting the monastery dungeons.

The dungeons of the Urals also keep many secrets.

“... Divya people live in the Ural Mountains, they have access to the world through caves. They have the greatest culture ... ”- even in the 20s of the 20th century they talked about underground inhabitants Ural. And local old-timers today will tell thousands of legends about the underground people. Some of them will feature light-eyed and soft-voiced dwarfs, others will feature tall and handsome people, and still others will feature even heroes. But all of them, so different, are called by one name - Chud. Russian historians have long been arguing about this mysterious people, mentioned in the Laurentian Chronicle (1377), but so far they have not come to a consensus.

The beginning of the Ural legends was laid by explorers and the first Russian settlers, who heard voices coming from under the ground and the sounds of metal hitting stone: that Chud mined precious stones and metals. The riches allegedly collected by the miracle over many centuries have haunted treasure seekers for hundreds of years. But all attempts to penetrate the secret of the underground inhabitants ended in failure. And many treasure hunters simply did not return, having disappeared in the intricate labyrinth of mysterious caves. In general, storerooms with precious stones and gold were not found, but ancient mines were found in the bowels of the mountains, and in them - real masterpieces of metallurgical production. And here the fairy tale gives way to reality - however, even more mysterious.
The fact is that almost all ore deposits discovered in the Ural Mountains were marked with special signs. At one time, Nikita Demidovich Antufiev, the founder of the Demidov breeders, looked for such marks and determined the places for the construction of metallurgical plants solely on them. Nowadays, deposits are searched differently, but in explored areas, as a rule, signs left by a miracle are found ...
It turns out, not fairy tales, was it still a miracle? It was, but disappeared: traces of it, in the 1940s, were still noticeable in Perm, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions, led to Altai, but it was there that they were completely lost.

Folk legends offer two versions of the disappearance of the underground people. The first is the protests of the self-burial of an entire people:
“... frightened by the Russians, the Chud dug in alive.” The second is his departure by “secret dungeons” to an unknown country. “But the Chud didn’t leave forever. When the happy time returns, and people from Belovodye (the Russian analogue of Shambhala. - Ed.) come and give great science to all the people, then the Chud will come with all the treasures that have been mined. That is, in fact, this version assumes the existence of a Chud underground civilization in our time. It's almost impossible to believe this...

Legends of our days.

Meanwhile, the most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today have no doubts about the existence of an underground empire: not yet explored by anyone, it, in their understanding, extends under the seas and continents. And ancient buildings rise above the entrances to this grand dungeon in various parts of the world: for example, in Peru, this is the city of Cusco ... Of course, not all scientists share the opinion of Peruvian experts. And yet, many facts speak in favor of the underworld, indirectly proving its existence. The 1970s were the most fruitful for such evidence.
England. The miners, digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from somewhere below. After breaking through, they found a staircase leading to an underground well. The sound of working equipment increased, and therefore the workers got scared and ran away. Returning after some time, they found neither the entrance to the well nor the stairs.
USA. Anthropologist James Macken, along with his colleagues, explored a cave in Idaho that is notorious among the indigenous population. The locals believed that there is an entrance to the underworld. Scientists, having gone deep into the dungeon, clearly heard screams and groans, and then discovered human skeletons. Further exploration of the cave had to be stopped due to the increasing smell of sulfur.
Under the Black Sea city of Gelendzhik, a bottomless mine with a diameter of about one and a half meters with amazingly smooth edges was discovered. Experts unanimously say: it was created using technology unknown to people and has existed for more than one hundred years.
Speaking of the underworld, one cannot discount the legends that have already appeared today. For example, modern Indians living in the mountainous regions of California say that very tall golden-haired people sometimes come from Mount Shasta: they once descended from heaven, but were unable to adapt to life on the earth's surface. Now they live in a secret city, which is located inside an extinct volcano. And you can get into it only through mountain caves. By the way, Andrew Thomas, the author of a book about Shambhala, completely agrees with the Indians. The researcher believes that there are underground passages in Mount Shasta, going in the direction of New Mexico and further to South America.
Speleologists “discovered” another underground people: they are sure that troglodytes inhabit deep caves all over the world. It is said that these cave dwellers sometimes appear before people; help in trouble those who respect their world, and punish those who desecrate the caves...

To believe or not to believe?

To believe or not to believe all these stories? Any sane person will answer: "Do not believe!" But not everything is so clear. Let's try to think logically. Let's think about how real a full-fledged human life underground is? Could there be an unknown culture or even a civilization next to us - or rather, below us - managing to limit contact with terrestrial humanity to a minimum? Staying unnoticed? Is it possible? Does such “living” contradict common sense?
In principle, a person can exist underground, and it would be pretty good if there was money. Suffice it to recall the bunker house that Tom Cruise is currently building: the megastar plans to hide in his underground dwelling from aliens who, in his opinion, should soon attack our Earth. In less “illuminated”, but no less solid bunker cities, the “chosen ones” are preparing in the event of a nuclear war to wait out the nuclear winter and the post-radiation period - and this is a period during which more than one generation will rise to its feet! Moreover, in China and Spain today, many thousands of people do not live in houses, but in comfortable caves with all amenities. True, these cave dwellers continue to actively contact the outside world and take part in terrestrial life. But the inhabitants of cave monasteries scattered around the world - like the Greek Meteora - have always been almost completely cut off from the hectic life. According to the degree of isolation, lasting for centuries, their existence can be considered underground.
But, perhaps, the most striking example of the adaptability of a huge number of people (what is there - a whole civilization!) To the "lower" world is the underground city of Derinkuyu.

Discovery of the century.

Derinkuyu, which means “deep wells”, takes its name from the small Turkish town currently located above it. For a long time, no one thought about the purpose of these strangest wells, until in 1963 one of the local residents, who discovered a strange crack in his basement from which fresh air was drawn, showed a healthy curiosity. As a result, a multi-tiered underground city was found, the numerous rooms and galleries of which, connected with each other by passages, tens of kilometers long, were hollowed out in the rocks ...
Already during the excavation of the upper tiers of Derinkuyu, it became clear: this was the discovery of the century. In the underground city, scientists discovered objects of material culture of the Hittites, a great people who competed with the Egyptians for dominance in Asia Minor. Hittite kingdom, founded in the XVIII century BC. e., in the XII century BC. e. sank into the unknown. That is why the discovery of a whole city of the Hittites became a real sensation. In addition, it turned out that the giant underground city is only part of a colossal labyrinth under the Anatolian plateau. Scientists have come to the conclusion that underground construction has been carried out for at least nine (!) Centuries. Moreover, these were not just earthworks, albeit of a colossal volume. Ancient architects equipped the underground empire with a life-support system, the perfection of which still amazes today. Everything here was thought out to the smallest detail: rooms for animals, warehouses for food, rooms for cooking and eating, for sleeping, for meetings ... At the same time, religious temples and schools were not forgotten. A precisely calculated blocking device made it easy to block the entrances to the dungeon with granite doors. And the ventilation system that supplied the city with fresh air continues to function flawlessly to this day!

In the presence of provisions in the underground city, up to two hundred thousand people could live indefinitely at the same time. The issue of replenishment of food stocks could be solved in many ways: from domestic production to the use of “intermediary services”. Apparently, there was no single scheme for all time.
But in the legends of different peoples, underground inhabitants get their livelihood by barter, secret trade, or even theft. The latter option, however, is only suitable for small underground communities: Derinkuyu could hardly feed himself in this way. By the way, most likely, it was the extraction of food that caused the terrestrial inhabitants to have thoughts about the existence of “children of the dungeons” ...

Traces of the Hittites, who lived underground, can be traced until the Middle Ages, and then are lost. A developed underground civilization managed to secretly exist for almost two millennia, and after its disappearance, it did not open to the ground world for more than a thousand years. And this amazing fact alone allows us to make an unambiguous conclusion: yes, it is still possible to live underground in secret from people!

Always +27.

Derinkuyu is not the only underground city found in Turkey. 300 kilometers southeast of Ankara, Turkish archaeologists have unearthed another one, the creation of which dates back to the 7th century BC. e. Now it is called by the name of the nearby village - Kaymakli. On its seven floors, going deep into the earth, there are two-room "apartments" with compartments for food and food storage. Bathtubs - smooth recesses in the stone - were designed to be filled with water from underground sources. And at any time of the year, thanks to a precisely calculated system of ventilation shafts, a constant temperature of +2 C was maintained in the premises.

Waiting for answers.

What prompted the ancient people, who had a highly developed culture and knowledge, to go underground? Natural disasters? Enemies? Fear and the desire to protect your culture from an aggressive outside world? It is quite possible that we will find out the answers to these questions in the very near future, when the latest results of archaeological expeditions conducted in various parts of the world become known.
One of the most promising studies is currently underway in Ukraine. The Tripoli civilization (the name comes from the village of Trypillia near Kiev) is much older than both Sumer and ancient egypt, and Babylon. According to scientists, it was this highly developed culture that existed in the 4th-3rd millennium BC. BC, invented the wheel and the solar calendar. The end of the Trypillian civilization, as mysterious as the birth, for a long time provided food for a variety of hypotheses. Among the assumptions was the following: Trypillians went to live underground.” However, until recently, historians preferred the version of the settlement of Trypillia to the south and west to this fantastic idea. But the sensational results of archaeological expeditions in the Ternopil region of Ukraine confirmed that people not only went underground, but also conducted active economic activities there for a very long time. Five underground settlements were discovered at once, which are currently being investigated by scientists.

The Gobi caves are currently under study. Due to their inaccessibility - and the caves are located in the so-called "forbidden territory" associated with Shambhala, the habitat of the highest initiates - Gobi dungeons were practically not explored. In addition, most of the information about them is mystical in color: the mysterious halo of the area affects. However, starting from 1988, the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia began to systematically send its expeditions to the Gobi caves with the aim of their comprehensive study. And let's hope that the result of the work of scientists will be discoveries that will answer the question: is there a connection between the Gobi caves and Shambhala, which gave rise to one of the most attractive legends of mankind?

Legends about the existence of underground cities in the jungle also have amazing vitality. South America. Even the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, in his reports to the Spanish king, reported that he had discovered the entrances to underground tunnels located on the sacred mountain of the Incas Guascarana. Whether Pizarro managed to explore them and, in general, what happened next, history is silent. But in 1991, in the area of the Rio Sinju River, a group of Peruvian speleologists also discovered a system of underground caves in which traces of human activity were present. So, one of them was equipped with a stone slab rotating on balls. This mechanism for blocking the entrance could only be created by enlightened people. Behind the door stretched a multi-kilometer tunnel. And although several expeditions that have been there have not yet been able to find out where it leads, there is hope that this mystery will be solved ...

edited news LAKRIMOzzzA - 6-03-2011, 02:12