As you approach Mount Shasta, the first thing you notice is how absolutely out of place. It is though it’s one of the tallest peaks in North America. It’s not directly connected to any other mountains. It stands alone and seems to leap off the landscape at over 14,000 feet above sea level. Mount Shasta is so tall and steep that it pierces the clouds and creates its own weather located in Northern California. Mount Shasta is actually a semi-active volcano. Its last major eruption was in 1250 but as recently as last year Mount Shasta was oozing lava that caused several fires in the surrounding forest and just about every type of paranormal event you can think of converges at Mount Shasta.

Tribes And Their Beliefs

UFO sightings, mysterious disappearances, lost cities, ghosts gods, everything Mount Shasta legends exist in every culture that’s lived in its shadow including the first cultures native tribes have inhabited the area for over 10,000 years, making it one of the longest-occupied areas in North America and each tribe has a myth about the mountain. Some tribes say Mount Shasta is the sacred center of the universe, others say the mountain is the birthplace of all life, as different as these stories are there is one theme found in every native legend that, you do not go above the tree line, that area is reserved for the sky people.

Not far from Mount Shasta is Petroglyph Point which has some of the oldest stone writing ever found in North America. Dating back thousands of years and the Glyphs depict the types of things you’d expect to see animals rivers the sun stars, but there are also carvings of what some people believe are sky people. Native tribes believed that the sky people were spiritual beings who existed in a different realm a plane of existence where souls and spirits of the dead dwell. But what if the sky people aren’t spirits of the dead but are actually beings that are very much alive just not human?

Giants And Bigfoot

There are Native American legends that describe a race of giants that live on Mount Shasta. The Modoc have the Matah Kagmi which are said to be the keepers of the woods could these ancient people be describing bigfoot as Matah Kagmi is the Modoc word for bigfoot and it’s similar to the Tibetan word which is their word for yeti. Hey, how do ancient Indians end up with the same word for Bigfoot? Well, it would have to be some kind of land bridge between India and America.

Since at least the 1920s people have claimed to see tall creatures roaming the forests around Mount Shasta in 1976. A camper thought a park ranger was investigating his camp but upon closer inspection it was a bigfoot. Another famous account happened in 1962,when hiker claimed to have seen a female bigfoot giving birth. In 1930 a humanoid skeleton that was over eight feet tall was discovered near Mount Shasta and this wasn’t a fringe report it was covered by major newspapers all over the area and native legends say, the race of giants prospered on the earth for thousands of years but were suddenly wiped out in a great flood.

JC Brown And Lemuria

There is an interpretation of this legend that claims the giants of the woods are not Bigfoot they’re a race of people called Lemurians and that brings us to the fascinating story of JC Brown. He is considered the first person to find the lost civilization of Lemuria. But his story takes a mysterious turn in 1904. JC Brown was working as a Geologist for a gold mining operation and he was sent to Mount Shasta to look for gold. During one of Brown’s expeditions, he came across a rock fall that looked like something could be buried underneath. When he cleared the rubble he discovered the entrance to a cave that disappeared into the darkness for what looked like a forever brown hike. The length of the tunnel which turned out to be 11 miles long, that may sound crazy but Mount Shasta is a volcano and the entire area around the mountain is a network of lava tubes.

Lava tubes can be huge and stretch miles underground and when Jc Brown reached the end of the tunnel, he found what he described as the remains of an ancient city. He found machinery long abandoned that looked like it was used in a mining operation. He found statues, tablets, shields and weapons all made of gold and all inscribed with hieroglyphics. He found what he called a Worship Room with Statues that seemed to glow in the dark and the final chamber of the cave system was a tomb where 27 giant skeletons were arranged and they ranged in height from 7 feet to over 10 feet tall. Unsure of what to do JC BROWN covered the entrance to the cave and told no one about it but over the next few years brown became obsessed with a book by James Churchward called “The Lost Continent Of Mu” and by stories of Lemuria which he thought could be the same thing Lemuria. According to the legend was an entire continent that sunk beneath the ocean many thousands of years ago like Atlantis. In 1899 Frederick Spencer Oliver published a book called “A Dweller On Two Planets” which tells an amazing story that was found written on ancient Hindu tablets over a million years ago.

Lemurians vs Atlantis

The earth was ruled by two very advanced civilizations, the Atlantis and the Lemurians and both cultures had technology that far exceeds our own Atlantis was the dominant culture and for many years. It was benevolent but about 25 000 years ago Atlantis became corrupt and wanted to rule all people on the earth, Lemurians rejected this idea and wanted to be left alone. After much internal conflict Atlantis decided to go to war with the Lemurians and for years the two mighty civilizations. Deployed devastating nuclear weapons against each other the explosions were so violent that they caused the Earth’s tectonic plates to become unstable and the magnetic poles to shift. Finally a massive flood tore across the planet and laid waste to both civilizations in all. 60 million Lemurians died. Atlantis suffered severe losses as well the few surviving Atlantis evacuated to Agarta, an underground city. Remaining Lemurians fled to Mount Shasta and established a city called Telos. What’s amazing is there’s a Hawaiian Legend that says the islands of Hawaii were once part of a vast continent called Mu also known as Lemuria.

Once JC Brown learned of these stories he was convinced that he had found the lost civilization of Lemuria under Mount Shasta so he decided now 30 years later, It was time to go back to the mountain. When JC Brown returned to Mount Shasta, he put together a search party to help him rediscover Lemuria. Brown had assembled a group of 80 researchers scientists and explorers and after a thousand years of legend Lemuria was about to be proven real newspapers widely covered the story. The excitement around the adventure was palpable then on the morning that the expedition was set to begin JC Brown didn’t show. People combed every town, every street looking for him but they would find no trace. JC Brown had vanished and was never heard from again.

Explanations for JC Brown’s disappearance covered everything. Some said he was simply a fraud though he never took a penny from anyone, others said a secret but powerful organization learned of brown’s plans and had him erased. But a few others were convinced that JC Brown no longer needed a search party to find Lemuria but he had been granted access and taken there by some mysterious machine and to hear descriptions of this machine it sounds like a vehicle or right and there have been UFO sightings around Mount Shasta going back over 100 years.

UFO Sightings

In recent years sightings are accelerating of the top 300 UFO hotspots in the world. Mount Shasta is ranked 13th. People have seen chrome objects hovering above dark mountain roads, others report lights moving in formation silently swarming the peak and then disappearing, one of the most widely reported UFO sightings happened in 2008. Residents said they saw what looked like a giant glowing jellyfish hovering over the mountain. Eyewitnesses said it made no noise but it seemed to have a fire raging inside of it now. Unfortunately, there are no photos from the sighting but just last year someone captured this photo.

The traveller sees an object apparently changing shapes in seconds and what makes Mount Shasta UFO really strange is that they don’t just hover around the mountain, people have seen them fly into the mountain and they don’t mean they flew into an opening in the mountain. Every single person said the UFOs flew into the side of the mountain and just vanished into the rock. It’s been said that Mount Shasta is hiding an energy vortex that allows passage into another dimension. Locals believe the UFOs hide in the clouds and enter the mountain through some kind of portal but that begs the question a portal to where?

Disappearances

For decades eyewitnesses have seen strange beings in Mount Shasta’s caves that seem to have the ability to walk through walls they just vanish and it’s not just these strange beings that disappear on Mount Shasta, it’s one of the most active hot spots in North America for mysterious disappearances. In 2011 a young couple was camping on Mount Shasta with their three-year-old son, suddenly the boy’s parents looked up and their son was gone. They immediately called the authorities and a massive search went on for five hours then a sheriff’s deputy heard a quiet voice coming from a bush not far from the campsite. This was odd because dozens of trained search and rescue professionals had combed every inch of this area multiple times and found nothing but the boy was found unharmed. So this was called a successful operation and that was pretty much the end of it, it wasn’t. Until a few weeks later when the story would take a mysterious turn the boy was talking to his grandmother about the incident he said he liked this grandma better than the other grandma(who looked like her) who found him in the woods.

The boy’s mother was upset by this what other grandma. The boy said the other grandma had taken him to a cave in the woods there were other people there too who were just frozen in place and this new grandma seemed nice enough. But then she wanted to examine the boy and for some reason, she asked him to defecate on a piece of paper. But it gets even stranger grandma said that just a few weeks earlier she was camping in the same area when she blacked out then she woke up face down in the dirt and noticed she had a strange puncture wound on the back of her neck. She said she was violently ill and thought it was some kind of spider bite. She was camping with a friend who also had a similar wound and was also terribly sick. DNA extraction, that’s one theory and grandma said she’s never gone to that mountain again.

Then there’s the story of Carl Herbert Landers in 1999 landers along with two friends set out to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta and along the trail landers just vanished. He didn’t wander off, he didn’t cry for help, he was just gone and it’s not like he disappeared into the woods or fell down a hole, there was good visibility for over a hundred yards. Landers vanished in a wide open field and he was an experienced hiker who knew this terrain extremely well. Yet somehow he disappeared off the mountain without a trace. For a week a huge manhunt searched every inch of the area, the National Guard even sent helicopters equipped with infrared sensors. Nothing was found, no equipment, no clothing, nobody. All gone to this day there is no explanation for what happened.

Some Reasonable Explanations

So what’s going on at Mount Shasta can we use logic and science to explain these mysteries? Well, it’s difficult to explain ancient native legends because we have no evidence to support or refute the stories since the legends have been passed down over several thousand years. Not only is it possible but it’s likely that these stories evolved over time, I mean who can resist adding a little drama to make a story seem more mystical? Mount Shasta isn’t a very active volcano now, but it’s erupted many times in the past and human settlements were present during those eruptions. When native tribes described Mount Shasta as the Home of a God who throws flaming rocks at his enemies, we could certainly see that these ancients were trying to make sense of what they saw. When American Indians spoke of giants did they really mean bigfoot, it’s not clear there wasn’t much reporting of bigfoot until 1924.

When a few gold prospectors came back from an expedition talking about how they were attacked by giant ape-men who threw boulders at their camp and the story caught fire and grabbed so much attention that park rangers launched a full investigation. What they found didn’t impress them they said the boulders were actually just large rocks and look like they were placed there by the men and there were supposedly bigfoot tracks in the area but when the Rangers looked closely at the tracks it was clear they were made by one of the miners using his knuckles and the palm of his hand. Still, there’s no stopping a viral story and the legend of Bigfoot was born.

But what about these portals that seem to swallow people whole, is there any science to support the phenomenon? The two points in space can be joined by nothing but energy turns out there is. In 2013 NASA discovered a phenomenon called an X-point. X-points are places where the magnetic field of the Earth is directly connected to the magnetic field of the sun. This is an uninterrupted path of energetic particles leading from our planet all the way to our star 93 million miles away. Another study confirmed these portals and found some of them are short-lived opening and closing very quickly, but others are stable for long periods of time. Now obviously we can’t use these portals to travel yet. But there is science to support that the earth is magnetically tethered to the sun and the magnetism around Mount Shasta is highly unusual. The entire area is blanketed by an enormous negative magnetic anomaly could this area of strong magnetism be creating ruptures in space that cause people to disappear?

Well, that’s a stretch but if some kind of electromagnetic event were to occur there are few places on earth better suited than Mount Shasta. Now the story of the missing boy who suddenly reappeared five hours later, that’s true the part about his grandma and the puncture in her neck, that came from someone claiming to be her posting her story on the internet. So I don’t know and the boy’s parents conveniently want to remain anonymous. But Karl Landers really did disappear without a trace as have many people on Mount Shasta. Most of the time missing hikers are discovered not far from their last known position usually dead from injuries from a fall. But it’s worth acknowledging that there are plenty, I mean a lot of people who just vanish with no explanation.

What about the UFOs well? The UFO sightings can’t really be explained. Whether around Mount Shasta is highly unusual and creates what’s known as Lenticular cloud formations. Lenticular clouds look like giant UFOs. But they’re just clouds as for it looks like flying spacecraft hovering around and disappearing into the mountains. We’d be silly to discount those reports even our own government is finally admitting, there are objects zipping around the planet that just can’t be explained.

So what about JC Brown and Lemuria? Well, the JC Brown story is a great one but it might be debunked. In 2017, A researcher named Stephen Sindoni tracked down a man named John Benjamin Brody, a mining engineer who retired in Mount Shasta and Brody had worked for the mining company which was also JC Brown’s work. Brody lived right across the street from where JC Brown had given daily lectures on Lemuria and the lost city of Telos. This may not be definitive proof that jc brown was a hoax but it’s pretty compelling research and I should note that Sindoni is not a debunker, he’s a hollow earth researcher who’s been on countless TV and radio shows discussing how the earth is hollow and home to alien civilizations that live right under our feet and speaking of hollow earth.

Then what about Lemuria? Is it hiding inside Mount Shasta? Well, I think Lemuria is the best legend about Mount Shasta and I’m not the only one whose entire religions have been built around the Lemuria story. In the 1930s Guy Ballard, a mining engineer was exploring Mount Shasta. He said he was met by a young man named Le Compte De Saint Germaine. Compte Saint Germaine is a legend in paranormal history, he’s supposedly immortal and shows up during all kinds of historical events there’s even an account of him being present at the signing of the declaration of Independence where he actually gave a speech. But anyway Ballard and his wife Edna claim to be the sole messengers of follower Saint Germaine and other ascended masters as they’re called. Ballard began giving public lectures on Saint Germaine’s teachings and eventually had grown over a million followers. Mount Shasta city, Lemuria and Atlantis were nothing more than stories for hundreds even thousands of years but with the discoveries like Bimini road in the Bahamas and the Yonaguni monument of the coast of Japan. We have to start wondering if these myths weren’t myths at all but actual places. Sceptics will say Bimini and Yonaguni are natural formations. But it looks mostly man-made.

Conclusion

Mount Shasta has captured the imagination of people around the world for centuries and those who visit often say the mountain call to them. I think It’s fair to say that if you’re the type of person who goes to a place expecting to have a spiritual or supernatural experience. There’s a good chance you’ll have one, the mind is a powerful thing but as long as you’re not starting religions. Based on this I don’t think there’s anything wrong with believing what others say is a crazy theory. Our civilization’s greatest leaps forward come from Heretics who dare to challenge the Status quo from mavericks and dissenters. Have come scientific discoveries that altered the course of history and forced even the most ardent sceptics to wonder What if there was an ancient civilization that sunk beneath the ocean and what if the children of those people are here now just waiting for our own civilization to catch up, waiting for us to emerge from our selfish adolescence. So we can join a larger community one that exists only for scientific discovery artistic expression and spiritual enlightenment. Now I admit it sounds like fantasy but when we stop asking what if civilization dies but as long as there are heretics and mavericks and dissenters we have a chance and if you’re one of those keep asking what if everyone on Earth whether they know it or not is counting on you. 

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