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The first documented mention of a salt mine in the Romanian city of Turda dates back to 1271. More than seven centuries later, the mine opens up to visitors as a theme park. Once inside, you will find a compact amphitheater for concerts and celebrations, tennis and pool tables, a mini golf course and a Ferris wheel. On the lower tier, you can take a boat trip along the underground lake of incredible beauty.

St. Michael's Cave

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According to historians, the largest cave in Gibraltar owes its name to a similar grotto of the Italian mountain Gargano - the Sanctuary of Michael the Archangel. Equipped with helmets and shoes with rubber soles, in the cave of St. Michael you can admire the pristine beauty of nature, illuminated by colorful illuminations. A slightly more strict dress code means concert events and the Miss Gibraltar contest, which are held here on a regular basis. By the way, the local culture has a long tradition: archaeologists found in the cave of St. rock art primitive people.

Attraction Bounce Below

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Zip World company specializes in organizing active rest such as traveling on a cable car or jumping on a trampoline inside a cave. Such unusual entertainments are available to residents and visitors of Blainau Festiniog, North Wales. The Bounce Below attraction consists of three huge trampolines, the most extreme of which is stretched at a height of 55 meters from the base of the cave. And since it comes to mobile activity, there are proper security measures, exceptions for, as well as separate visits for adults and preschool children.

Not far away, in one of the nearby abandoned mines, the same Zip World company organizes descents underground to a depth of 30 meters along rope bridges with obstacles and tunnels.

Volcano Room at Cumberland Caverns Concert Venue

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The small American town of McMinnville is unremarkable for an ordinary tourist, but it is quite popular among fans of the unusual. After all, it is right next to it that the Cumberland Caverns are located - one of the longest caves in Tennessee and the United States as a whole, inside which Bluegrass Underground musical events take place. To be precise, concerts are given in the "hall" Volcano Room at a depth of about 100 meters. Specific acoustics and a unique environment give an incomparable experience. Performances are held here all year round 1-2 times a month.

Waitomo Cave (Waitomo Glowworm Cave)

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Cappadocia is the historical name of a part of the territory of modern Turkey with a unique landscape of volcanic origin. And it is thanks to the soft volcanic rock that Cappadocia is known for its many cave monasteries and even cities. Derinkuyu is the largest of them. Imagine, according to very rough estimates, the cave settlement at the best of times accommodated about 20 thousand people. According to scientists, such cities served as a reliable refuge for the local population from enemy raids and sieges, which could last for weeks. And all because the city sheltered not only people, but also all livestock, crops, food and water supplies, as well as household utensils. Churches, warehouses, workshops, together with an established ventilation system, made it possible to live a full life here. It is believed that the eight tiers of Derinkuyu up to 60 meters deep is only a tenth of the explored part of the city. Grandiose!

Churchill's Bunker (Churchill War Rooms)

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Churchill's military rooms will be of interest to all lovers of the history of the Second World War. It was from the underground fortifications located under the building of the London Treasury that the British Secretary of Defense controlled the troops entrusted to him. The organizers of the museum claim that the interior decoration of the bedrooms, switch room, meeting rooms and other premises has not changed at all after 70 years, even the chamber pot of the prime minister is still in place.

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 the Altai, the Urals, the Perm region, the Tien Shan, the 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 made with high technology, not known to people, and 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 a huge amount of 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.

Juan Moritz, an Argentinean ethnologist, was one of the first to study kilometers of tunnels in South America. In June 1965, in Ecuador, in the province of Morona-Santiago, he discovered and mapped an unknown system of underground tunnels with a total length of hundreds of kilometers. They stretch deep underground and are a giant labyrinth clearly not of natural origin. It looks like this: a huge opening has been cut through the thickness of the rock; from it deep into the rock there is a descent to sequentially located horizontal platforms, this descent leads to a depth of 240 m. Here there are tunnels of rectangular section and varying width. They turn strictly at right angles. The walls are so smooth, as if polished. The ceilings are perfectly flat and seem to be varnished. Ventilation shafts with a diameter of about 70 cm are located strictly periodically. There are large rooms the size of a theater hall. In one of these halls, furniture resembling a table and seven chairs in the form of a throne was found. This furniture is made of an unknown material similar to plastic. In the same hall, figures of fossil pangolins, elephants, and crocodiles cast in gold were found. Here, Juan Moritz discovered a huge number of metal plates on which letters were engraved. Some plates reflect astronomical concepts and ideas of space travel. All plates are exactly the same, as if "cut to measure" from sheets of metal made using high technology.

Without a doubt, the discovery made by Juan Moritz, to some extent, lifts the veil of the one who built the tunnels, their level of knowledge and approximately the era when this happened.

In 1976, a joint Anglo-Ecuadorian expedition explored one of the underground tunnels in the Los Tayos region, on the border of Peru and Ecuador. There, in one of the underground rooms, there was also a table surrounded by chairs with backs more than two meters high, made of an unknown material. Another room was a library and was a long hall with a narrow passage in the middle. On its walls there were shelves with ancient books - these were thick folios of about 400 pages each. The sheets of these books were made of pure gold and were filled with an unknown font.

Since 1997, the Cosmopoisk expedition has carefully studied the notorious Medveditskaya ridge in the Volga region. The researchers discovered and mapped an extensive network of tunnels stretching for tens of kilometers. The tunnels have a circular section, sometimes oval, with a diameter of 7 to 20 m, maintaining a constant width and direction along the entire length. The tunnels are located at a depth of 6 to 30 meters from the surface of the earth. As you approach the hill on the Medveditskaya ridge, the diameter of the tunnels increases from 20 to 35 meters, and then to 80 m, and already at the very hill, the diameter of the cavities reaches 120 m, turning under the mountain into a huge hall. Three seven-meter tunnels leave from here at different angles. It seems that the Medveditskaya ridge is a junction, a crossroads where tunnels from different regions converge. Researchers suggest that from here you can get not only to the Caucasus and the Crimea, but also to the northern regions of Russia, to Novaya Zemlya and further to the North American continent.

Crimean speleologists discovered a huge cavity under the Ai-Petri massif, picturesquely hanging over Alupka and Simeiz. In addition, tunnels connecting the Crimea and the Caucasus were discovered. Ufologists of the Caucasus region during one of the expeditions determined that under the Uvarov Ridge, opposite Mount Arus, there are tunnels, one of which leads towards the Crimean Peninsula, and the other through the cities of Krasnodar, Yeysk, Rostov-on-Don stretches to the Volga region.

In the Caucasus, in the gorge near Gelendzhik, a vertical mine has been known for a long time - straight as an arrow, about one and a half meters in diameter, more than 100 m deep. Its feature is smooth, as if melted walls. Scientists who studied the surface of the walls of the mine came to the conclusion that the rock was subjected to both thermal and mechanical effects, which created an extremely durable layer 1-1.5 mm thick. With the help of modern technology, it is impossible to create this. In addition, an intense radiation background was noted in the mine. It is possible that this is one of the vertical shafts leading to a horizontal tunnel, going from this area in the Volga region to the Medveditskaya ridge.

It is not surprising that P. Mironichenko in the book “The Legend of the LSP” believes that our entire country, including Crimea, Altai, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, is riddled with tunnels. It remains only to find their location.

As Yevgeny Vorobyov, academician of the Russian National Academy of Sciences, writes: “It is known that in the post-war years (in 1950) a secret decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR was issued on the construction of a tunnel through the Tatar Strait in order to connect the mainland with a railroad. Sakhalin. Over time, the secrecy was removed, and Doctor of Physical and Technical Sciences L. S. Berman, who worked there at that time, told in 1991 in her memoirs the Voronezh branch of Memorial that the builders were not so much building, but restoring the already existing tunnel laid in of extreme antiquity, extremely competently, taking into account the geology of the bottom of the strait. Strange finds in the tunnel were also mentioned - incomprehensible mechanisms and animal fossils. All this then disappeared into the secret bases of the special services. It is possible that this tunnel leads through about. Sakhalin to Japan, and maybe even further.

Now let's move to the region of Western Europe, in particular, to the border of Slovenia and Poland, in mountain range Beskydy Tatras. Here stands Babia Mountain, 1725 m high. Since ancient times, the inhabitants of the surrounding area have kept the secret of this mountain. As one of the residents named Vincent said, in the 60s of the XX century, he and his father went to Babia Mountain. At an altitude of about 600 m, they pushed aside one of the protruding blocks, and a large entrance to the tunnel opened up to them. The oval-shaped tunnel was straight, wide, and so high that an entire train could fit in it. The smooth and shiny surface of the walls and floor seemed to be covered with glass. It was dry inside. A long path through an inclined tunnel led them to a spacious hall, shaped like a huge barrel. Several tunnels began from it, going in different directions. Some of them were triangular, others round. Vincent's father said that through the tunnels from here you can get to different countries and even to different continents. The tunnel on the left leads to Germany, then to England and on to the American continent. The right tunnel stretches to Russia, to the Caucasus, then to China and Japan, and from there to America, where it connects with the left.”

In 1963, under the city of Derikuyu in Turkey, a multi-tiered underground city was discovered, stretching underground for tens of kilometers. Its numerous rooms and galleries are connected by passages. 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!

Here were found objects of the material culture of the Hittites, whose kingdom was formed in the 17th century BC, and in the 7th century BC. it has sunk into obscurity. For what reason the people went into the dungeon scientists have yet to guess. The developed underground civilization of the Hittites was able to exist unnoticed by the earthly world for more than a thousand years.

In addition, in Turkey near the village of Kaymakli, in Ukraine in Tripoli and other places on Earth, archaeologists are excavating ancient underground cities.

According to many scientists and researchers from different countries, it is quite obvious that on planet Earth there is a single global system of underground communications, located at a depth of several tens of meters to several kilometers from the earth's surface, consisting of many kilometers of tunnels, junction stations, small settlements and huge cities with a perfect life support system. For example, a system of ventilation openings allows you to maintain a constant temperature acceptable for life in the premises.

In addition, according to scientists, this information (and only a small part of it is given in this article) suggests that on earth long before mankind existed, and most likely, there were civilizations with a high level of technology. In addition, some researchers believe that the underground tunnels left by those ancient people are currently used for UFO underground movements and the life of a civilization that lives on Earth at the same time as us.

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Since the middle of the 20th century, mankind has been successfully studying and developing near-Earth space. It is believed that the Earth has been traveled and ridden up and down by us, so we should not expect new discoveries here.

However, the faster modern civilization develops, the more questions our own planet poses to it. And people still can't solve these problems. The technical equipment of terrestrial science is not yet so highly developed that it would be possible to easily penetrate into all corners of the sky, land and ocean. But, most importantly, our consciousness is not yet ready for a large-scale study of earthly reality. We must understand and calmly accept the fact that other civilizations live next to us on our home planet, with which we have repeatedly had to deal with.

The 21st century brings with it the rapid improvement of science and technology, thanks to which scientists are already starting to explore areas previously inaccessible to us. the globe. These include the ocean depths, the underworld of the planet and the ice kingdom of Antarctica. And the most superficial acquaintance with these regions showed that in each of them a person can meet with forms of life unfamiliar to him, and possibly with intelligent civilizations, which we learn about from legends and myths created by folk art.

Part 1

Encounters with the Unknown

Legends about the meetings of people with the inhabitants of the Underworld exist among different peoples. In Russia, the first documented reports of contacts with underground civilizations unknown to the Slavs are considered to be the records of the Novgorod Primary Chronicle under 1096 (11th century), which convey the story of the Novgorod governor Gyuryata Rogovich, who collected tribute from the peoples of the North subject to Novgorod. The chronicler narrates: “Now I want to tell you what I heard 4 years ago from Gyuryata Rogovich, a Novgorodian, who told this: “I sent my youth to Pechora, to people who pay tribute to Novgorod. And when my boy came to them, he went from them to the land of Yugra. Ugra, on the other hand, are people who speak an incomprehensible language, and they are neighbors with Samoyed in the northern regions.

As reported further, the Yugras told the envoy of Gyuryata Rogovich an amazing story. Far to the north, on the shores of the White Ocean, there are mountains that rise with their peaks to the very sky. The path to these mountains is difficult and dangerous because of the abysses, snow and dense forests, and the yugras rarely reach there, in remote and deserted places.

But those who nevertheless visited near these mountains say that inside the stone mountain slopes one can hear the voice and cries of human beings (“in the mountains of those mountains there is a great cry and voice”). And when the unknown inhabitants living inside the mountains hear the presence of a person, they cut through “small windows” in the rocks and call the stranger, and point with their hands at his weapon, and ask for it with signs. And if the hunter gives them a knife or a spear, then in return he receives sable fur and expensive gemstones.

A large number of legends about underground inhabitants have come down to us from medieval Russia. The famous Russian ethnographer A. Onuchkov, studying the folklore of the Urals at the beginning of the 20th century, recorded reports of local residents about a mysterious people found in the Ural forests and among the rocks. The Urals call him marvelous people. Here is what they told the scientist. "Divya people" live in deep underground caves, but sometimes they rise to the surface of the earth and walk among people, but people do not see them. Their culture is high, and the light in their underground cities is no worse than our Sun.

According to the descriptions of eyewitnesses, Divy people are of small stature. They are beautiful and speak in a pleasant voice, but only a few hear them - those who have a clear conscience and who live according to God's laws. Divya people warn villagers about upcoming events, and help some in misfortune. So, witnesses from the Ural village of Beloslutskoye tell about a gray-haired old man from wild people who, to the inexplicable ringing of bells, comes to the church at night and, standing on the porch, predicts his fate to everyone who appears here.

In the first decade of the 17th century, Russia experienced the Great Troubles caused by the suppression of the royal Rurik dynasty and the interregnum that followed this. The struggle of boyar groups for the royal throne went beyond the borders of the Russian state, in connection with which there was a danger of Russia losing national independence.

The Polish king, under the pretext of restoring the allegedly saved Tsarevich Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible, to the Russian throne, organized a military intervention against Moscow. Detachments of Polish soldiers led by False Dmitry I, and then with False Dmitry II, invaded Russia. At the same time, Swedish mercenaries penetrated Russian territory from the north, seeking to cut off the Novgorod and Pskov lands from Moscow.

The treacherous policy of the Russian boyars led to the fact that the Russian army was defeated in battles with the Swedes and Poles. The Poles captured Moscow, and the King of Poland, Sigismund, was already preparing to be crowned on the Russian throne.

At this most difficult time for Russia in Nizhny Novgorod began the formation of the people's militia to fight the Polish-Swedish invaders. It was headed by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky. According to archival chronicles, before that, the Underground Elder appeared at Minin's house, who ordered him to start raising funds for the militia in Russia, and to invite Prince Pozharsky as the military commander of the militia.

The elder also handed over to Minin and Pozharsky some documents containing new laws by which Russia would have to live after the defeat of the intervention. As you know, the people's militia liberated the country from the Polish-Swedish invaders, but Minin and Pozharsky were pushed out of power and could not fulfill the order of the Underground Elder set out in these documents.

Tales of a small underground people can be heard in the north of the Urals and Siberia. Here these people are called miracles. The Komi, who live in the Pechora Lowland, tell legends about little people coming out of the ground and also predicting the future for people. According to the legends of local residents, at first the little men did not understand the human language, but then they learned it and showed people how to mine, smelt and forge iron.

Chudi priests are called "panas" here. They are the keepers of secret knowledge and know about countless treasures hidden underground and protected by the strongest spells. Even today, anyone who dares to approach these treasures either perishes or goes crazy. Because the treasures are guarded by special servants of the priests - cinders. These cinders, formerly a miracle, were once buried alive along with treasures. Until now, they faithfully serve near the ancient treasures.

In 1975, a group of Soviet history students tried to find the Chud treasure under an ancient stone on which mysterious signs were carved. In one of the northern chronicles of the 15th century, the guys found a spell that allegedly protects a person from cinders. They recited this spell three times over an ancient boulder, but found nothing but two ancient silver medallions. And soon the student who was digging up the treasure was bullied by a bear. A rumor immediately spread among the locals that the curse of the pan overtook the wicked, who dared to encroach on the treasures of the Chud.

Similar legends exist among European peoples. An example is the story recorded by 13th-century English chroniclers about the emergence from the ground of two small children with green skin and an incomprehensible fear of sunlight. That's what this story is about.

In the county of Suffolk, in the UK, there is a village called Woolpit, which has an unusual and mysterious story. Its name translates as "Wolf Pits", and the coat of arms of the village depicts a wolf and two children - a girl and a boy. It was here in the XII century, 112 kilometers from London, that the last wolf of England died, falling into one of the many wolf pits.

Then a strange incident happened here. One day two small children appeared in the village. It happened on a hot August day at harvest time. They crawled out of a deep pit that had been dug to catch wolves, which gave rise to such an unusual name for the village. The boy and the girl, coming out of the pit, went to the people. It was surprising that the skin of the babies had a greenish tint, and they were wearing strange clothes, cut from an unknown material. The children were very frightened and waved their arms as if they were driving away bees. With their appearance, they confused the peasants, however, having come to their senses, the reapers took the children to the village and brought them to the landowner Richard Kane.

Having calmed down a little, the children began to speak in an incomprehensible language, in which hissing and whistling sounds predominated. They spoke in high-pitched voices. The inhabitants did not understand a word, although in those days in England the villagers were familiar with all the languages ​​of the neighboring peoples. Here, the Normans and Danes with Scandinavian dialects were well remembered, they heard the French language of the knights, they did not forget the German-Anglo-Saxon dialect, they recognized the Celtic dialects of the Scots, Irish and Welsh, and the priests knew Latin. When the children were taken to the village, they began to cry and refused to eat anything, although they were very hungry.

Richard Kane was very surprised by the sight of the children, but having seen enough of them, he ordered the servants to prepare the best delicacies, but the children refused everything. So, they starved for several days, until one day the villagers brought into the house a crop of beans, plucked straight from the stems. The boy and girl were very interested in beans, but could not find their fruits. They seemed to know what it is and understand that it can be eaten. When one of the servants showed them where the food was, they began to open the pods and greedily eat the beans. For several months, the children ate exclusively them. Richard Kane turned out to be a kind man and allowed the children to stay in his castle.

A few months later, the boy died. He was younger than his sister and was unable to adjust to local life. The child gradually closed in on himself, refused to eat, so he soon fell ill and died. The girl survived and after baptism received the name Agnes. But religion remained something incomprehensible to her, and religious ones brought only inconvenience. Gradually, she learned to eat ordinary food, and her skin lost its greenish tint. Agnes became a blonde with blue eyes and fair skin. She adapted to life here relatively easily, grew up, married, learned English, and lived for many years in Norfolk County. Ralph in his work mentioned that she was very headstrong and capricious, but despite this, her husband and children loved her very much.

Agnes remembered little of her origins. However, she said that she came with her brother from St. Martin's Land, where all the Christian residents were also green. According to her, there was eternal twilight and the sun never shone. She also told that their house was located "on the other side of the big river." Agnes said that she and her brother came across the cave while tending a flock of sheep. The sound of bells was heard from outside the cave, the children went to this sound and ended up in some kind of cave. There, according to Agnes, they and their brother got lost and only after some time did they find a way out. But when they came out of the cave, they were blinded by a bright light. The children got scared and wanted to go back, but the entrance to the cave disappeared.

The girl also added that Saint Martin's Land can be seen on long distance that it looks like "a luminous country on the other side of the river." Agnes, with the permission of Richard Kane, tried several times to find her way back to her homeland, but she could not do it. But this is not surprising, because by order of Richard, the pit from which the children came out was filled up. He feared that armed men might come for his brother and sister. The girl didn't know anything about it.

This story was told in two of their chronicles by Ralph of Coggshall and William of Newburgh, who were credible chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages. The works were created around 1220. The bishop's unusual children are also mentioned in the book of Bishop Francis Godwin, who was suspicious of this legend. He reluctantly included it in his chronicle. But Ralph of Coggshall relied in his annals on the words of Richard Caine, in whose house Agnes worked as a servant. Many details indicated that all the facts stated were true. Ralph of Coggshall lived in Essex, which was not far from Suffolk. Therefore, he could communicate directly with other participants in the events.

Many have tried to unravel the mystery of the origin of the "green children" and the location of the rather strange St. Martin's Land, many different assumptions have been put forward. According to one version, children could get to Woolpit from copper mines, which used child labor in those days. The skin and hair of children from constant contact with copper could indeed acquire a greenish tint. But then what about the material from which the children's clothes were made, with the story of Agnes and the fact that they could not eat ordinary human food?

There were also bold versions that the children could come from another dimension, underworld or even aliens who accidentally hit the Earth. Some researchers believed that the cave, through which the boy and girl got into our world, was something like a path that connected the Earth with another planet. Or the road that was laid between the past, present and future. Paradoxically, but such a hypothesis explains everything, because if they came from another dimension, then only minor genetic changes would be enough for hair and skin to acquire the usual human color. "Green children" could well be the product of genetic engineering, which may exist in a parallel world to us.

The American mathematician and astrophysicist Jacques Vallee published numerous testimonies of people meeting with little black hairy men, who are called lutens in France. According to him, many such little men live in the Poitou region, and the locals know well where the dwellings of these gnomes are located. In his book, Vale cites eyewitness accounts of a meeting with lutens.

An interesting event happened here in 1850. One day, returning to their village on the Egre River, several women witnessed a curious spectacle. Shortly before midnight, having crossed the bridge, they heard a loud noise and saw a picture from which "the blood froze in their veins." An object resembling a "chariot with squeaky wheels" was rushing up the hillside at amazing speed. Looking closer, the women saw that the “chariot” was being dragged by numerous black men. Soon the strange chariot "jumped over the vineyards and disappeared into the night." Frightened peasant women abandoned their belongings and rushed home.

Belief in the existence of black men is not limited to any one region. Researchers from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and even Australia write about it. In Mexico, they are known as ikal, which in translation from the language of the Tzeltal Indians means "black creature". Here they are described as small black hairy dwarfs living in caves that the locals bypass.

There are legends that ikals attack Indians and kidnap their children and women. Sometimes gnomes are seen flying through the air, and “rockets” are clearly visible on their backs, which the little men skillfully control. According to the Mexican Indians, people met ikals especially often in the middle of the 20th century.

In modern Russia, there is also a lot of evidence of people meeting with dwarf peoples. In August 1945, Voronezh fighter pilot Vasily Yegorov was shot down by Japanese artillery over the territory of Inner Mongolia, two hundred kilometers from the front line.

He managed to leave the burning plane and descended to the ground by parachute, while ending up in a small grove. Here he quickly found a stream running out from under a low hill, and drank fresh cold water.

As a result of a slight injury, Vasily felt dizzy and nauseous. He lay down in the bushes on the grass and imperceptibly fell asleep. He woke up with a strange sensation: his arms and legs did not obey him. Raising his head, Vasily saw that his entire body was wrapped in a strong translucent tape the width of a finger. All around him there were incomprehensible sounds, reminiscent of bird chirping.

Vasily soon determined that this chirp was being published by ... tiny people dressed in strange clothes and armed with knives. Later, having met hundreds of such little men from the Hanyangi tribe (as they called themselves), Vasily made sure that their height did not exceed 45 centimeters.

The Soviet pilot spent many years in the underground labyrinth of these amazing dwarfs. Once, during a severe thunderstorm, he came to the surface of the earth and lost consciousness. He was found by Mongolian cattle breeders and taken to the camp of Soviet geologists who were working in Mongolia at that time. Geologists transported Vasily to the USSR, and his identity was established there.

It turned out that in the homeland Vasily was considered dead. Only after a series of examinations did the Air Force command become convinced that it was really Vasily Yegorov in front of him - a Soviet fighter pilot, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of War, who accounted for six downed enemy aircraft. But even Vasily's relatives could not immediately identify him, since 14 years have passed since the Soviet-Japanese war! Vasily Egorov returned to his homeland in the spring of 1959!

Of course, no one believed his stories about life among the Lilliputians, but here’s what’s strange: during an X-ray of the brain performed on Vasily due to severe headaches, the doctors found an almost overgrown triangular hole on the back of his skull. It became obvious that about 15 years ago the pilot was subjected to a trepanation of the skull and the trepanation was carried out in a way unknown to science.

Until the end of his life, Vasily Egorov lived in Voronezh. For a long time he was the best well builder in the south of the region, because he knew how to find water where others failed after failure.

Meetings with the inhabitants of the underworld do not always end so well for people. In the library of the Peruvian University in Cusco, there is a report on the death of the French-American expedition, which in 1952 tried to descend into one of the Andean dungeons and make contact with its inhabitants. Scientists have found in the vicinity of Cusco the entrance to the cave and entered there. They were going to stay underground for several days, so they took food and water with them for only five days.

Of the seven members of the expedition, only one person, the Frenchman Philippe Lamontier, was able to surface in two weeks. He said that the rest of the expedition members died in a bottomless underground abyss. The Frenchman was terribly emaciated, suffered from memory lapses and was infected with bubonic plague. A few days later he died, and the doctors found a corncob of pure gold tightly clamped in his hand!

The authorities, fearing the spread of the bubonic plague in the region, blocked all known cave entrances in the area with stone blocks. But scientists did not want to leave this tragedy without consequences. The researcher of the Inca civilization, Professor Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the missing expedition.

A group of his supporters found an entrance to the dungeon unknown to the authorities and tried to explore it. At first, people walked along a long, gradually narrowing corridor, reminiscent of a ventilation pipe. Soon they noticed that the walls no longer reflected the rays of their lanterns.

Using a spectrograph, the scientists found that the wall cladding contains a large amount of aluminum. All attempts to break off at least one piece of this material ended in failure. The casing was so strong that no tool could take it. Meanwhile, the corridor continued to narrow, and when its diameter decreased to 90 centimeters, the expedition had to turn back.

The discovery in the hands of the deceased Philippe Lamontiere of a golden cob of corn excited adventurers all over the world. Among them, rumors began to spread that the treasures of the Incas were discovered, which they hid from the soldiers of Cortes somewhere underground. These rumors were fueled by legends among the Peruvians about underground caves inhabited by snake people guarding the treasures of the Incas.

For several years, dozens of treasure hunters have disappeared in Peru, recklessly descending underground in search of gold. Only a few managed to get to the surface, and even those, apparently, were damaged by reason: they unanimously told that they had met strange creatures underground, at the same time similar to a person and a snake!

Part 2.

The facts confirm

The existence of dwarf peoples on Earth in ancient times is reported to us by the Flemish cartographer and geographer of the Renaissance - Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594). In the scientific world, he is known as a competent and trustworthy compiler of several geographical maps of the world and its individual regions. So, in 1544, he compiled a map of Europe on 15 sheets, on which for the first time the outlines of the Mediterranean Sea were correctly shown and all the errors that had survived from the time of the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy were eliminated.

In 1563 Mercator drew a map of Lorraine and then the British Isles. His "Chronology", issued after these atlases, became a detailed survey of all astronomical and cartographic works of the 16th century. In 1569, Mercator published an 18-page nautical map of the World, which is still used to compile nautical and aeronautical atlases.

But the most amazing map was drawn by Mercator in 1538. Today it is called the Mercator Map. It depicts the Arctic Ocean, in the center of which, in the place of the modern North Pole, there is an unknown continent - Daaria. It is an archipelago of four large islands grouped around the Inland Sea, in the center of which rises the island of Arctida with the highest mountain in the world, Meru.

According to ancient legends, on the top of Meru once stood the City of the Gods - Asgard of Daaria, in the center of which stood a beautiful white marble temple. The inhabitants of Asgard created a highly developed civilization on the mysterious mainland. On their spaceships, they visited the planets of other star systems of the Galaxy, and from there aliens flew to Daaria with return visits.

Mercator's map was accompanied by detailed notes applied to the images of all four islands of the archipelago. It followed from the records that the rivers flowing from the Inner Sea divided Daaria into four parts - Rai, Tule, Svarga and H.Arra. About 14 thousand years ago, an unknown civilization appeared here, which supposedly existed until the 6th millennium BC, when for some reason Daariyya began to sink under water.

A severe cold snap forced the people inhabiting the archipelago to move to the Eurasian continent. About 3 thousand years ago, the contours of Daaria disappeared under the waters of the Arctic Ocean, although the peaks of individual mountains rose above the water for a long time in the form of individual islands.

So, from the inscription inscribed on one of the islands of the archipelago, closest to the modern Kola Peninsula, it follows that it is inhabited by a dwarf people: “Pygmies live here, their height is about 4 feet (no higher than 1.2 meters), and the inhabitants of Greenland call their "scurlingers".

Based on the testimony of Mercator, it can be assumed that on the eve of the death of Daaria, part of its population managed to cross the already formed ice cover of the ocean to the coast of Northern Eurasia. Among the escaping tribes, the Skerlingers also came here, who became aborigines of the then uninhabited coast of the Northern Ocean.

In the 4th-5th centuries of our era, during the Great Migration of Peoples, the north of Eurasia began to be settled by Turkic and Slavic tribes, who clashed here with the Skerlingers and gave them new names - “Sirtya”, “Chud”, “Divya people”. Unable to withstand competition with stronger and more numerous detachments of aliens, Sirte-Skerlingers went underground, where, perhaps, I still live.

It is likely that the distribution range of this dwarf people extended much further than the Arctic coast of Siberia and the Kola coast. This is confirmed by the archaeological excavations of 1850, during which the Neolithic settlement of Skerlingers, Skara Brae, was discovered in Northern Scotland.

The settlement of Skara Brae was found after a strong hurricane literally tore the earth from the top of one of the coastal hills. For a long time, scientists did not take seriously the stories of local residents about a dwarf village that appeared on a hill after a hurricane. Excavations at Skara Brae were only started in the 1920s. They were led by the English archaeologist Professor Gordon Child.

At first, Childe dated the unknown settlement to the 6th-9th centuries, but it soon became clear that we were talking about a much more ancient culture that modern science can hardly identify with any people on the Earth.

It has been established that the settlement of Skara Brae was founded long before 3100 BC and lasted until about 2500 BC. However, the main thing is not this. The archaeologists were amazed: everything from the masonry walls and miniature beds to low ceilings and narrow doorways was designed for people whose height did not exceed one meter!

In addition, scientists during the excavations came to the conclusion that the settlement was created from the very beginning as an underground structure. First, the builders erected stone walls, then a ceiling made of wood and stones was laid on them, and after that the whole room was covered from above with a thick layer of earth and turf. To exit, they left a small hole in the hillside, hardly noticeable from the outside.

In the middle of each room was a hearth lined with stones for safety. In the corners of the room were cabinets for dishes and clothes, beds and seats. In one of the corners there was a bin for food storage.

Underground passages were laid between separately located dwellings, the walls of which were also laid out with stone blocks. A network of such invisible passages provided a reliable connection between the individual families of the underground town, as well as the opportunity, in case of danger, to leave the premises and go to the surface of the earth.

By the time the excavations began, the interior of the settlement’s living quarters had been completely preserved: fragments of canopies hung over stone beds, neatly arranged pottery stood in stone cabinets, women’s jewelry lay on top, and in one of the dwellings, scientists found a necklace dropped by someone. In each "apartment" there were always weapons and tools.

It is interesting that mysterious inscriptions in an unknown language were found in almost every room of Skara Brae. The assumption put forward by experts that the shape of the inscriptions is similar to the ancient runic writing was not confirmed: the signs of unknown writing had nothing to do with runes or with any other ancient language.

Archaeologists have an opinion that the settlement was abandoned by its inhabitants unexpectedly and quickly, although there are no traces of a military invasion and a hasty flight. Scientists have not been able to explain the reason for the departure of the inhabitants of the dungeon. In addition, they noticed that there were heaps of sand on the floor of the rooms and passages. The local population still has beliefs that anyone who invades the dwelling of a small people without permission will turn into sand.

The Scots also believe that dwarfs, trying to save their kind, can kidnap human children right from the cradle. Some of the abducted supposedly return to the human world after many years, but they cannot get used to human society and remain outcasts forever. And today the Scots put pieces of iron in their cradles, which supposedly protect babies from the invasion of dwarfs.

The mysterious settlement in Skara Brae is not the only evidence of the existence of dwarf peoples in ancient times. In 1985, in the Don steppes in the area of ​​the Second Vlasov burial ground, archaeologists from Voronezh University unearthed a low burial mound of the Bronze Age and, when removing the mound, discovered a mysterious labyrinth of branching, intersecting passages with flat floors, straight walls and vertical ventilation wells. total area The labyrinth is 254 square meters. The moves intersected in such a way that, on the whole, they constituted an intricate figure, in shape approaching a square. The height of the passages at the maximum is 1.3 m, at the minimum - below a meter.

All the manholes converged towards the center, to a large rectangular pit, in the middle of which there was a certain stone or wooden object, possibly an idol. To illuminate the premises, the ancient residents used torches, as indicated by numerous inclusions of burnt coals on the floor of the passages.

The unusualness of this dungeon was that the underground passages and manholes were too small for the movement of even a very short person. Scientists reconstructed the premises of the mound and came to the conclusion that only very small creatures could live in such a dungeon - up to 80 centimeters tall and weighing about 25 kilograms.

The central premise of the sanctuary was a large underground hall, in the center of which there was a low building with a domed ceiling. In it, presumably, there was an idol to which sacrifices were made. And these sacrifices were not always bloodless. Near the domed house, a skeleton of a man was found covered with earth, whose height was 160 cm. A triangular hole was found on the back of his skull, cut out in the same way as that of the Soviet pilot Vasily Yegorov, which was described in the first part of the article.

But most often, animals were sacrificed here, and above all, small horses. Along the perimeter of the sanctuary, many horse heads were found, on which even iron bits were preserved. Metal dating helped to establish that the sanctuary existed in the 8th century AD.

Due to lack of funds, the study of the temple was suspended, and only in 2001, archaeologists again arrived at the site of the previous excavations. Attempts to hire workers in the nearest village of Bolshiye Sopeltsy, despite unemployment, did not lead to anything. Local residents flatly refused to work in this forest, claiming that it was “unclean” there.

The next morning, next to his pillow, Prokhorov found a severed horse's head. The camp attendant did not see anything suspicious at night. The canopy and walls of the tent remained intact. At the same time, the batteries of the Niva and the UAZ truck, the batteries in flashlights, a transistor receiver, a cell phone, and also in all electronic watches, were completely discharged.

The alarmed members of the expedition quickly broke camp, started the truck with a “crooked starter”, took the Niva in tow and were in Voronezh in the evening. And at night, five of the seven participants in the failed excavations ended up in the toxicology department of the hospital with signs of severe poisoning. The doctors managed to save only two - Prokhorov and Irina Pisareva, the other three died. Two more died at home, because due to the lack of a telephone in the apartments, there was no one to call an ambulance.

Doctors considered the cause of death to be mushroom poisoning, although Prokhorov claimed that neither he nor the other members of the expedition ate mushrooms. What happened to the people in the excavation area and what kind of curse is placed on this place is unknown. It was only possible to find out that the village of Vlasovka used to be called Velesovka (named after the Slavic god Veles), and magicians and priests lived here in the 8th century, whose ritual artifacts were found and studied by scientists.

And another interesting find helped archaeologists to finally make sure that in ancient times our planet was inhabited by numerous tribes of dwarf people. We are talking about hobbits from the Indonesian island of Flores. The discovery of their ancient cave sites, according to English professor Chris Stringer, "rewrites the history of human evolution."

Excavations in 2003 at Flores brought an unexpected sensation. In the Liang Bua limestone cave, Australian paleontologists, led by Professor M. Morewood, dug up the well-preserved bones of several skeletons belonging to a dwarf upright creature. In honor of the blackbuster J. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings" they were called hobbits.

Scientists have restored the appearance of the skull of a female hobbit and got an amazing image: it was a dwarf man!

The next year, the International Anthropological Expedition continued excavations on about. Flores and discovered nine more skeletons of similar humanoid creatures here. Their height did not exceed 90 cm, and the volume of the brain was only 380 cubic centimeters, which was only one fourth of the brain of a modern person.

But despite the small brain size, the hobbits were smart enough: they made stone weapons and rather complex tools, and also used fire. The age of these miniature men was quite ancient: they lived in the interval between 95 and 12 thousand years ago. At that time, a modern man already existed on Earth.

In a cave where hobbits once lived, bones of Komodo dragons and pygmy stegodons, the ancestors of modern elephants, were found next to their remains. This suggests that the hobbit tribes were able to domesticate some wild animals and kept them in caves as a living food supply, and possibly as transport animals.

Information about the existence of dwarf underground peoples comes today from all continents of the planet. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the pygmy tribes living in Burma and China have become known, and the undersized inhabitants of Equatorial Africa are described in ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek sources. The men of these tribes grow only up to 120-140 centimeters; women are even lower. But they all look like giants next to the so-called micropygmies found in the Australian forests. Their average height is about 40 centimeters. And found on the coast Baltic Sea a piece of amber became a real sensation!

Unable to explain the discovered artifact, scientists simply hid it from the public for a long time. In a stone polished by sea waves, a tiny skeleton of a man is clearly visible! There is a lot of research ahead to study all these amazing facts.

But not only dwarf tribes could once inhabit the underworld of our planet. In the middle of the 20th century, an underground Trypillia civilization was discovered on the territory of the Soviet Union. Here is what you can learn about it from the reports of Soviet archaeologists.

Back in 1897, archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka carried out excavations near the village of Trypillya near Kyiv. His findings were sensational and very ancient. In the soil layer corresponding to the sixth millennium BC, Khvoyka unearthed amazing things - the remains of stone dwellings and agricultural utensils of a people unknown to science. The boundaries of the appearance of the “economic man” moved back at least a millennium into the past, and the found culture was called Trypillia.

But an even more surprising fact was made public in 1966, when archaeologists discovered huge cities buried underground on the territory of Ukraine. The first of these was a cave complex excavated near Tripoli itself.

The population of many of these cities exceeded 15-20 thousand people - a very large figure by the standards of eight thousand years ago. And the scale was amazing: scientists have found underground settlements with an area of ​​​​up to 250 square kilometers!

The architecture of the cave cities turned out to be surprisingly similar to the layout of the ancient Aryan land fortresses discovered 20 years later in the Southern Urals. Arkaim, Sintashta and more than 20 large and small fortified settlements were excavated by Soviet archaeologists in the South Ural steppes.

Both Trypillians underground and Arkaimians on its surface built their settlements according to the same plan: stone houses were built close to each other in concentric rings on a round rammed platform with a blank wall outward. The result was a powerful defensive structure, inside which no enemy could penetrate. In the center of such a city was a round gravel square on which the temple stood.

A still unexplained fact is the cyclical functioning of such settlements - both in Ukraine and in the South Urals. Circular fortified cities existed in one place for no more than 70 years. Then the inhabitants set fire to them and left. For the Arkaimites, it was possible to prove that after the destruction of their homes, they all went towards India, where their traces should be looked for. It turned out to be more difficult to find traces of the ancient Trypillians.

According to some estimates, the Tripoli civilization numbered up to two million people. And then one day all these people burned their cities and disappeared overnight! Among the modern population of Trypillia, there are legends that their ancestors once descended underground, where they live and live to this day. Scientists, of course, then, in 1897, rejected such a version.

The excavations of 1966 became a sensation. The ancient legends about the transition of the two million population of Trypillia into underground caves have been confirmed! To date, about five underground cities have already been found near the city of Trypillia, in the south of the Ternopil region, near the Ukrainian village of Bilce-Zoloto and in other places. Now there are excavations. Perhaps soon they will explain what made the Trypillians leave to live underground and what is its further fate.

Another cave civilization of the planet, the underground cities of Cappadocia, has already been studied quite well.

Cappadocia is a region in the east of Asia Minor, on the territory of modern Turkey. It is mostly flat, devoid of vegetation plateau, which is located at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Translated from Turkish, the name "Cappadocia" sounds like "Land of beautiful horses."

Here, among the rocks and steep hills made of volcanic tufa, there is a unique complex of underground cities that were created over several centuries, starting from the 1st millennium BC. Currently, it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and is protected by the state.

For a long time, the paths of the Great Migration of Nations passed through the territory of Cappadocia and waves of foreign invaders swept through. To survive in such extreme conditions, the population of the plateau was forced to go underground.

In the soft Cappadocian tuff, people cut down residential apartments, warehouses for storing utensils and products, as well as premises for keeping livestock. Coming into contact with fresh air, the tuff after a while hardened and became a reliable defense against the enemy.

Long abandoned by the population, these amazing cities were discovered by Europeans only in the 19th century: a French priest, walking along the plateau, stumbled upon a ventilation shaft and, going down it, found himself in a huge underground city.

Soon, European archaeologists arrived here, who found that the city has up to 12 floors descending deep into the earth, which are equipped with special ventilation shafts. Temples, water wells, grain storage rooms, stables and pens for cattle, wine presses - all this shocked scientists.

Currently, six underground settlements have been discovered and explored - Kaymakli, Derinkuyu, Ozkonak, Adjigol, Tatlarin and Mazy. It is possible that in the future other cities of Cappadocia will be found, about which the ancient Greek historian Xenophon wrote back in the 5th century BC. For a long time, his messages were considered fiction.

The largest underground city in Cappadocia and the world today is Derinkuyu. It was built in the 1st millennium BC. The city descends 85 meters deep into the earth and has 20 tiers - floors connected by stone stairs.

On each tier there are living quarters - rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, as well as public facilities - schools, chapels, churches. They are connected by convenient dry tunnels and narrow passages. The total area of ​​the underground city is about 2000 square meters. The exact age has not yet been established, but it is known that Derinkuyu existed during the time of the Hittite kingdom.

Incredibly, Derinkuyu was built according to all the rules of modern engineering. Special ventilation shafts are laid from the surface of the earth, through which air enters down. Even the lowest floors are fresh and cool. These air ducts are lowered into the layers with groundwater, so they also perform the functions of wells and reservoirs.

According to the calculations of the researchers, the underground city could simultaneously accommodate up to 50 thousand inhabitants, moreover, along with livestock. For animals, special pens with stalls and feeders were built. Researchers are sure that Derinkuyu is not just an underground city - it is a real underground fortress, and it was needed to defend against enemy attacks.

Derinkuyu has a pretty well thought out defense system. So, there is a whole network of secret passages through which one could go to the surface. In addition, huge stone boulders stood at the entrance to each floor. Special holes were made in them - loopholes, so that the wars could shoot at the enemy. But if, nevertheless, the enemy managed to break through to the first tier of the underground city, then the inhabitants could block the entrance to the next floor with these stones.

Even in the event of a deep penetration of the enemy into the city "streets", the inhabitants of Derinkuyu could always leave their refuge. Especially for this, a tunnel 9 kilometers long was built here. It connects Derinkuyu with another no less important city Cappadocia - Kaymakli.

Kaymakli is an underground city a little smaller than its counterpart. It has about 13 floors. It was created around the same time as Derinkuyu. During the reign of the Romans and the Byzantine emperors, Kaymakli was completed. The number of floors in it increased, and as a result, it became a full-fledged underground city.

The city was discovered recently, and archaeologists have so far unearthed only 4 of its upper floors. On each of them, along with living rooms, barns, churches, wine cellars and pottery workshops, 2-3 storage rooms were found that could accommodate several tons of food.

This can only mean one thing: the city could feed a large number of people. Therefore, researchers suggest that there was a high population density in Kaymakli. About 15 thousand people could live in a small area, just like in a modern small town.

Excavations in this area will continue for many years to come, but it is already clear that the underground cities of Cappadocia are the most grandiose cave structures in the world.

In 1972, at the invitation of Salvador Allende, a group of Soviet geologists came to Chile to investigate some long abandoned or unprofitable mines and mines. The inspection began with a copper mine stopped back in 1945, located high in the mountains. Among the local population, he enjoyed a bad reputation.

However, a survey of the mine was necessary for many reasons. Firstly, the bodies of 100 miners who died under the rubble remained underground, which had to be found and interred in accordance with the customs of the Chileans. Secondly, the Chilean government was worried about rumors about strange underground dwellers who allegedly constantly caught the eye of the peasants, causing panic. Eyewitnesses described these underground creatures as giant snakes with human heads.

Soviet experts immediately dismissed any mysticism and began to inspect the dungeons. And almost immediately the surprises began. It turned out that the powerful gates blocking the entrance to the mine were broken through and, moreover, not from the outside, but from the inside. From the gate down to the gorge, a deep winding trail led: as if from the depths of the mountain someone had pulled out and dragged along the ground a thick and heavy rubber hose.

Moving along the main road of the face, the scientists after a few tens of meters stopped in front of a deep oval failure leading down. After examining it to a depth of 1.5 meters, they found that the side surface has a corrugated, folded surface.

Going down this tunnel, geologists after 100 meters got into an underground mine with veins of native copper. Near some of the worked-out areas lay piles of copper ingots, shaped like ostrich eggs. After taking a few more steps, people found a serpentine mechanism left against the wall, which literally "sucked" copper from the stone.

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 branching network of tunnels and galleries, stretching for tens and even thousands of kilometers in the Altai, the Urals, the Perm region, the Tien Shan, the 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 a huge amount of 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 happened after the 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, 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.

Once I had to study the mysterious thousand-kilometer tunnels and the American military. At the site in Nevada produced an underground nuclear explosion. Exactly two hours later, at a military base in Canada, 2,000 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 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.

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 different 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 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, 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, 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?

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 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 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.

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 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. 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.

Restoration architect Edward Said of Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna says the discovery is "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 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 participants, these structures have a high quality finish and are 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 under the Egyptian pyramids were discovered. 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 a forbidden system for outsiders underground labyrinths, “very confusing 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.

The rites of materialization, the creations of phantoms, are practiced in a large hall shaped like 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. The 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, following 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. Ossendovsky, a member of the Council of Ministers in the government of Kolchak, who during the civil war in the Siberian government held the post of director of the Credit Office2, who later fled to Mongolia, and, similar to the description of this center, and, published twelve years earlier, Saint-Yves d'Alveidre's The 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 the state structure of 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 regions 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.
* "Sacred texts, due to political conditions, have been systematically altered 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.

Until recently, it seemed that there were no living creatures left on Earth that were not known to scientists. We are looking for something new in space, but it must be admitted that the underground and deep-sea world of our own planet is rather poorly understood. It is there that you can still find incredible miracles.

Such a miracle for scientists has become movile cave in Romania. For five million years, life has existed in it under conditions in which it is simply impossible.

UNEARTHLY LIFE ON EARTH

So, in the Romanian cave Movile in 1986, a closed ecosystem was found, in no way connected with earthly conditions - neither with sunlight, nor with air, nor with water.

Entrance to Movile Cave

Wikipedia gives the following definition of closed ecosystems: “An ecosystem that does not involve any exchange of matter with the external environment. In closed ecosystems, any waste from one species must be disposed of by at least another species.”

This miracle of nature was discovered quite by accident, during geological research before the construction of a power plant near the city of Mangalia, located in Transylvania on the Black Sea coast. At a depth of 18 m, in an almost completely flooded cave, geologists have discovered a whole world that exists in conditions that are more like alien than Earth.

In the atmosphere of the cave, oxygen is almost completely absent (7-10%), but it is saturated with hydrogen sulfide, which is contained here in large quantities, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia.

For five million years this unearthly earthly life has existed, isolated from the outside world. The biosystem miraculously adapted to unusual conditions. Instead of the photosynthesis we are used to, it uses chemosynthesis, a method of nutrition in which the oxidation reactions of inorganic compounds serve as an energy source for the synthesis of organic substances from CO 2.

In a closed stone space with an area of ​​approximately 1,200 m 2 , of which only 300 m 2 have been explored to date, scientists have found about 50 species of living creatures (microorganisms, leeches, spiders, scorpions, insects). Slightly more than 30 of them are unknown to science.

It has been established that life in the cave originated in the early Pliocene, at the same time australopithecines related to man appeared and died out, at the same time the first people appeared.

For some reason, the cave turned out to be tightly closed, perhaps that is why its inhabitants did not die during the ice ages. They had to adapt to underground life. So they have been living for 5 million years in a dark limestone cave, with a dirty lake dividing the surface part into three isolated cavities. Well, at least the water in it is warm (21 degrees Celsius) thanks to thermal springs.

THE CAVE OF THE BLIND

All living creatures that live in a cave have two common features: they have no color (discoloration), as they live in pitch darkness, and they are completely blind, because without light, they do not need sight. In space, underground inhabitants are guided by touch and smell.

As you know, hearing becomes sharper in the dark, so the inhabitants of Movile learned to pick up the slightest vibrations of stone, air and water. Closed systems have their own life laws, and symbiosis is very well developed here. Each being helps the other to exist and develop.

Aquatic species live about 10 cm below the surface of the earth: there is slightly more oxygen than below. And below, only organisms with anaerobic respiration can survive, that is, those in which energy is produced in the body without the participation of oxygen received from outside.

It must be said that those who receive more oxygen have changed less compared to anaerobic ones. Among them, only 25% are endemic. From this we can conclude that sea or river water came here for some time after the cave was cut off from the world.

EAT AND SURVIVE

As in all nature, Movil has its own food chain, at the bottom of which are autotrophic bacteria that synthesize organic substances from inorganic ones, in other words, turn minerals into organic matter. If plants on the surface use sunlight for photosynthesis, then underground inhabitants oxidize hydrogen sulfide for chemosynthesis. As a result, sulfur precipitates, and microorganisms receive energy for the synthesis of organic matter from carbon dioxide and water.

These bacteria feed on other, heterotrophic bacteria and fungi. Then the latter are combined into bacterial mats and films that cover the walls of the cave and the surface of the water. These mats serve as a kind of pasture for other, more developed living creatures: isopods, wood lice, scorpions, which, in turn, are eaten by centipedes and spiders.

Under water, under the bacterial film, their own food chain is built - worms, crustaceans, snails live there, and above them - leeches and water scorpions. Snails here are extremely resistant to hydrogen sulfide and eat the bacterial film; the water scorpion preys on crustaceans; predatory leeches gobble up snails, worms and other invertebrates.

And, I must say, this whole ecosystem is working quite productively. On 1 m 2, researchers counted 1.5 thousand springtails, which were hunted by blind spiders, very reminiscent of their counterparts living in the Canary Islands, only sighted. Does this mean that in the Pliocene there was approximately the same climate?

DANGER! KEEP OUT!

A long stay in the Movile cave is a mortal danger for a person, this is understandable, given the atmosphere in it. And for the life of the ecosystem, such guests are harmful. The breathing process of a caver alone can cause an imbalance in the gas composition of the atmosphere in a cave.

In order to preserve this wonder of nature, access to the grottoes is allowed only to research scientists in special sterile diving suits with scuba gear. They can only visit the facility twice a month in a group of three. The cave is carefully guarded from people and the influence of the external environment. For this, two hermetically sealed hatches are installed at the entrance.

Some researchers argue that today only two closed ecosystems are known in the world: the planetary one and the Movile cave. But no, it's not that bad. Scientists identify at least two more ecosystems that exist in similar conditions.

CAVE OF THE ILLUMINATED HOUSE

The state of Tabasco in southern Mexico has acid cave, which is a labyrinth with a length of 2 km. It is sometimes called the Cave of the Illuminated House, since in some places daylight still penetrates through the crevices.

An absolutely terrible picture awaits those who dare to visit this unpleasant place: real sulfuric acid oozes from the walls and ceiling, multi-colored mucus hangs everywhere on the walls, in some places forming gelatinous stalactites.

Complements all this disgusting smell of hydrogen sulfide. Sulfuric acid here it appears as a result of the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide, released from the ground and reacting with water. It was this acid that ate such a huge tunnel in the limestone.

However, life exists in these non-residential conditions. Here, as in Movil, bacteria live, oxidizing hydrogen sulfide and receiving energy in the process. The slime on the walls is a horde of all kinds of bacteria, but it also contains mites and worms that eat bacteria. Midge larvae live on the walls, of which there are so many here that you can hear them humming.

But, unlike Movile, in the Sour Cave you can meet more highly developed animals. Flocks of fish swim in the stream at the bottom of the cave, feeding on bacteria and midge larvae. Although the very fact of the existence of fish in a solution of sulfuric acid seems incredible! In the upper sections of the cave, where some air enters, six species of bats live.

Scientists have not yet been able to figure out where the hydrogen sulfide comes from. There are two hypotheses: either it comes from an oil field located nearby, or the El Chichon volcano, also located nearby, is to blame.

LECHUGILLA CAVE

Another similar ecosystem is in Lechugilla cave in the USA. This is one of the deepest caves, its depth is 0.5 km. Life in it is also completely isolated from the outside world in its atmosphere! huge amount of hydrogen sulfide.

Only, unlike the other two caves, there are lakes with clear water But this purity and transparency are deceptive: water is unsuitable for life for ordinary inhabitants! aquatic environment. Nevertheless, reservoirs are quite inhabited by bacteria that feed on ... manganese. The walls of the cave are eaten by another type of bacteria.

It is not surprising that this ecosystem is of interest to NASA specialists. They hope to get an answer to the question of whether there is life on other planets where there is no oxygen and organic food. And caves like Movil, perhaps, are ways to sway scientists to a positive answer.

Galina MINNIKOVA, magazine "All mysteries of the World", number 2, 2016