Subterranean Worlds of Planet Earth

Subterranean Worlds of Planet Earth is a collection of investigations, reports, legends, and theories exploring the possibility that vast inhabited realms exist beneath the Earth’s surface. Its contributors examine alleged entrances to underground cities, immense cavern systems, Hollow Earth theories, polar openings, ancient subterranean civilizations, mysterious races, giants, Agharta, the Shaver Mystery, and possible connections between underground inhabitants and UFO phenomena. Ranging from Mount Shasta, Death Valley, and the American Southwest to Malta, South America, Europe, and Asia, the book brings together accounts of unexplored tunnels, underground lakes and cities, strange beings, lost civilizations, and traditions of an Inner Earth preserved in mythology, religion, occult literature, and reports of unusual discoveries. It also surveys theories associated with John Cleves Symmes and Marshall B. Gardner, while Richard Shaver argues that the recurring stories of underworlds, giants, trolls, dwarfs, and hidden races found throughout ancient traditions preserve memories of an actual subterranean world and its inhabitants.