Mysteries of Mount Shasta

I used to live up in the northern California area for a time when I was in college. I got to meet some very interesting people, though some had thoughts that were a little out there even for me. Ideas about how crystals hold certain powers that can heal bortices in certain parts of the West Coast in the United States, and the idea of lost civilizations some that are still alive today, hidden away from our society. They all have their strong set of believers that are willing to talk about and defend their ideas. Some of these can be very convincing. All I ask is for an open mind as we explore one of the most fascinating stories of a civilization that we thought no longer existed. Yet its members have been seen around the entrance to their city underground. They say that deep inside one of California's volcanoes lives a group of people. They have been seen. Few people have entered and communicated with them that around some of the nearby towns. Their existence is obvious, though it is said that they like to keep a low profile. Join me today as we go to Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, California and the legends that's around it. My name is Edwin, and here it's a dark mountain. It was around the eighteen twenties when travelers started going to Mount Shasta and it's surrounding regions in northern California. The place is beautiful with no capped mountains and rivers, and also Native American camps had been there since at least six hundred BC, and they say that maybe even thousands of years before that, up to nine thousand, based on artifacts, because it served as a type of boundary between four Native American peoples, the Shasta, Modoc, Ajumawi, Atsuwegi, and Wintu. All of these tribes had a lot of respect for Mount Shasta and it has ended up in teaching myths like the Great Spirit builds Mount Shasta to see the ocean, or the one about how the first rainbow was made where they talk about cooperation of animals on the mountain. A lot of these can be found on a book called A Bag of Bones published in nineteen sixty six in case you're interested. But along with all of the tales, there are also legends that surround it. For one, it has been called a sacred mountain because it was seen as a place of balance between the Earth and the universe. Early climbers and explorers who were visiting California loved it and were inspired by the scenery and wrote about it as a keystone of California's scenery and as California's Fuji Son. But it was a book written by a teenage author that he wrote while living in Wairrika, California, that took the tales to another level. The book was called a Dweller on two Planets or a Dividing of the Way. It talked about a mystic temple that was inside the mountain, carefully explaining a secret entrance through a tunnel, mysterious lights, and spaceships that would come out of this mountain. The story itself sounds like a great read, though eventually the writer, Frederick Spencer Oliver, claimed that he was actually China telling the story from another being. An entity named Philos the Tibetan was apparently the true author of the story. When Frederick died, his book hadn't been published, so we only learned about it after his mother and friends published it in nineteen oh five. But let's move away from the fictional story and onto something a little more factual. There is a researcher named Brian Wallenstein who was making a book on Bigfoot and UFO sightings, and he was searching for stories. In an article from the Los Angeles Times, reporter Lee Romney recounted how so many locals from Mount Shasta started emailing Brian with a ton of stories, a lot of encounters and things that they had been witnesses to. He heard stories about strange lights flying over the mountain, and of this guy named Larry who said that he could communicate telepathically with extraterrestrials. Brian, of course, had his limits, so he filtered through the stories as best he could, and he kept getting stories about things that happened to other people, like when a forest ranger told a few locals that he had spotted a bigfoot east of McLeod. Another one of these stories was from a couple from a city called Weed who saw chrome spaceship on a dark mountain road. Now, I know what you're thinking here, and I was too when I first read of this stuff. It's something else, but the people that live there are truly something else. There's a ton of crystal shops, for example, for the so called spiritual pilgrim and sessions where they channel in different entities. At spiritual centers, spiritual guides can take you up to the mountain, and there are Shasta Vortex tours which take you into to Tellos. But wait, what is Tello's First? Of all, this is where things start to get a bit stranger. To answer that, I'll tell you the story of Edward Lancer, the writer of a little known article for the Los Angeles Times magazine back in nineteen thirty two. Here's what I found there. Edward was on a trip to Portland. He was on a train to do something for work. It was in the early hours of the morning when he woke up and couldn't go back to sleep. He thought that he might as well just get up. He had no books or anything, and of course it was the nineteen thirties, so no internet or a way to watch a DVD or anything, and so he got up. He changed and went up to the observation platform, completely empty at the time, to see the sunrise. There she was snow cap Mount Shasta, which he described as a fearsome, beautiful and majestic thing. As he was admiring it, he noticed something odd, though, the entire southern side of it was burning the strange reddish green light, kind of like those fireworks like Roman candles. At the time, he was like, well, it's probably a forest fire, but there was no smoke. As the sun went higher in the sky, the brightness on the other side of the mountain got dimmer, and as the train kept going north, he lost sight of the lights. But Edward was intrigued. He didn't know it yet, but he was about to be lured by the mountain, just like it had done so for many other explorers and climbers before him, including John Muir. He thought about it for the next couple of hours until he sat down for breakfast and the first next to him was like, hey, did you see the forest fire? And Edward quickly replied with did juicy smoke? The other person said no, that he had only seen a red glow, and so now he knew one thing for sure. He had not imagined it. Later he asked the train conductor about it, and he gave him a short answer, Lemurians. The whole ceremonials up there. Lemurians. You see, Lemuria is like the lost city of Atlantis, which is said to have disappeared under the ocean, and Lemurians have also been said to have gone extinct. And this is one of those stories that are so enticing and awesome to listen to because there is so much detail and proof for lack of a better word, in the form of other stories of where it was and what it was like. And so Edward decided that he would come back and figure out this thing. What had it been and what could people tell him about it? And so he got to Portland, did what he had to do, and then went straight back to the Mount Shasta region. He was determined to figure it out. So he got to Weed, California, where people told him of a mystic village, something everyone knew about. Everybody, from officials to ranchers and explorers. They all talked about the Lemurian community, saying that they held rituals at different times of the day. But when Edward said that he would go find the entrance to their city, they all pretty much made fun of him. Very few explorers have gone into their settlement and no one had ever entered their village. If they had, they just wouldn't come back. Lots of people have tried to contact the Limyrians, but they never succeeded, although some suspect that those who have indeed gone and made contact with them have ended up denying completely that they had done so. A scientist, professor Edgar Lucien Larkin, had investigated and was able to see with a telescope a large temple described as a mystic village made of carved marble and onyx, similar to the ones in Yucatan, Mexico, saying that he estimated around six hundred to one thousand people to live there, working and going about their days. After he finished his observations, he concluded that the last descendants of the first inhabitants of this earth, the Limerians, were living there the foot of mountain. They say that those Limurians are aware of what happened to their civilization, and so they performed these rituals at midnight to celebrate how they were able to escape their demise. Edward was baffled as to how this primitive civilization was able to create such effects of light, because he had gotten to see those midnight ceremonies, describing them as a light that covers a landscape in a most baffling way. But that's Not all the Limurians have been seen and have been encountered in the Shasta forest, but also in the surrounding towns. Those who have seen them describe them as tall, barefoot, and noble looking men. They dress in spotless white robes, and in Edward's investigation he found that at one time there was an official visit from them to the city of San Francisco. They walked all the way there to greet the leaders upon the anniversary of the founding of their sacred retreat in California. They met at the Ferry building and ended up at city Hall. As soon as they greeted each other, the Lemurans went back to their village. But merchants have also seen them around Shasta, saying that they would come into their stores and buy things in bulk, enormous quantities of sulfur and salt, and that they brought their own containers, which were strange transparent bladders. Shopkeepers said that the people would always pay in gold nuggets and overpaid them at that which they were fine with. Edward also learned that the Lamerians are also known to have certain powers, like being able to blend themselves into the environment and perhaps with the stronger psychic ability than us. Supposedly, they were all also able to create a type of invisible protection one to stop forest fires from getting to their village as well, and as of nineteen thirty two, you could still see an obvious line where their invisible barrier had been, because that's where the fire stopped. Edward considered the story of the Limurians entirely possible, considering that Limyria was an advanced civilization that may have had all of the necessary tools and knowledge to become a completely sustainable village in one of the most beautiful places in the continent. Before that, however, in nineteen oh four, another man had already found a cave the entrance to where the Limerians lived in the city called Telos, and I'll tell you all about it up next. Stay with me. There's a legend about a man named J. C. Brown, who was a British prospector hired by the Lord Cowdre Mining Company of England to search for gold. While he was around the Mount Shasta area, he discovered a cave, one that went eleven miles deep, where he found an entire underground village with lots of gold and mummies that were up to ten feet tall. When he went out, he told people about it and got eighty of them to join an expedition to go back to the cave. But on that day when everyone was getting ready to begin in Stockton, California, J C. Brown did not show up. In fact, he was never heard from again. But all legends have to come from somewhere, right, That's what author and filmmaker Stevensondoni thinks, And in an article from Wicked, local writer Charlie Unkeffer spoke with him about a project he was working on researching the legend of J. C. Brown, wondering why there were no records of him from when he discovered the entrance to the cave to when the story came out of the Stockton Record newspaper in nineteen thirty four, and so he got to work. First, he traced records of the Lord Cowdre Mining Company, but couldn't find records of this J. C. Brown, But he did find another similar name, JB. Body, Apparently he had traveled to Mount Shasta in nineteen oh four along with the company owner. After finding similarities here and there, he was convinced that J. C. Brown was the alias for Jbbody. Jbbody had gotten wealthy after finding oil and exporting it, and eventually found out that both him and the owner of the company had gone to Mount Shasta, but not for one of these expeditions to find oil, but instead to go to the Shasta Springs resort. He says that it might have been to simply celebrate all of their wealth, and so records kept showing up with Jbbody going in and out of the country up until nineteen twelve, then he lost track of his whereabouts. The researcher here Stephen found that there are records of Jbbody dying at home in England nineteen thirty eight, and he thinks that he went by the name J. C. Brown for his own safety, But like the legend, says, he disappeared after gathering eighty people to go explore that cave with him. He hadn't charged money for it and so he wasn't running some type of scam. During his investigation, Stephen was told about Ollumerian sighting in two thousand and eight and started exploring an area where the supposed entrance to the cave was the same one that JB. Body had found. Everything seemed to match, but the site is on private property and not just anyone can get to it. He had to request permission to do so when he was investigating, but he says that he cannot share its location because of that. Stephen goes on to say that unusual things have happened to him since he's been investigating, that there are forces trying to keep his story under wraps. His YouTube channel is another thing too, where he posts things about conspiracies, stories of how the earth is hollow, and secret messages inside Microsoft software just to give you an idea. Still, he's a dedicated and curious guy. I'll give him that Mount Shasta has other stories that may be loosely connected to this lost civilization. And that's what the researcher I mentioned in the very beginning Brian Wallenstein was up to collect. He said he saw a family of YETI they were coming out of an abandoned cabin on the mountain, and also that he has seen UFOs go into the mountain. That's where he got the idea about his book on Bigfoot and UFOs, the one that he was looking up stories for. I felt it when I read that he had put off writing a book for years, but was also in a rush to collect the stories before the original storytellers passed. He's in counter resistance, like how sharing one of those stories can make you come out as kind of crazy. So he's had people to help convince those with stories to share their own. And from the stories of lost civilizations and the sightings of the Lemurians to the sightings of UFOs, Bigfoot and other forces of nature that's around Mount Shasta, we know that it has managed to catch our attention, just like our need to be out and explore nature. We've been hypnotized and amazed in a way of Mount Shasta. I know that many things still live there as we make our own history and as a Native American people honor theirs, and by sharing stories, we keep giving life to things like legends, the origins of our kind, and also perhaps hidden deep inside the tunnels of this sacred mountain, Old Memories. 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