The Taos Hum is perhaps the most famous of the “Hum Phenomenon” that is experienced in various locations around the world. In brief, a “hum” appears to be a low frequency sound with a rhythmic pulse to it. Many of the people that have claimed to hear or suffer from this humming have apparently claimed that it sounds like a “far away diesel engine”. It’s named after the town of Taos in New Mexico where it is claimed that it is quite common to hear it.
In fact, it was so common that the good citizens and sufferers banded together in 1993 and petitioned the American Congress to investigate the source of this annoyance. In 1997 Congress did direct a dozen or more scientists and researchers from some of the most recognized institutions in the country to investigate. One reason for this was the allegation that the Taos Hum was possibly the result of military activity – covert or otherwise. A side effect of this allegation was that the inquiry was conducted openly and involved a large number of people.
Where Be Dragons?
•October 12, 2020 • 7 CommentsSince realizing how our historical narrative is twisted to make us overlook obvious clues about our recent past like the remnants of giants, advanced civilizations, antiqui-tech and sophisticated air travel, I’ve begun questioning a lot of subjects scoffed at by quakademia.
So let’s see what happens if we poke the proverbial dragon!
Let’s start with the phrase “here be dragons.”
Did you also think it was used on lots of old maps to indicate dangerous unknown territory?
Well, it appears we’ve been mislead.
Yes, again.
The narrative smugly explains that the only actual written reference to dragons by a cartographer was on the 16th century Hunt-Lenox Globe.
This 5 inch terrestrial globe of etched copper has the Latin phrase hic sunt dracones (which Google translates as here are the dragons) near the equator in Indonesia — not in distant lands or uncharted seas.
Since this is roughly the region where the Komoto Dragons live, the phrase is easily dismissed as a reference to their presence.
But to imply that all dragon lore emerged from encounters with Komoto dragons is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?
Sure, they share some physical characteristics, but no one would imagine Komoto Dragons launching aerial attacks or coveting human treasures!
Imagine my surprise while studying this area to discover it was also where 5 airplanes have recently disappeared!
IMHO, this “catastrophic equatorial icing event” explanation is even less believable than dragon attacks — what a knee slapper!
It certainly doesn’t explain why all these other planes have gone missing. Look how many have vanished without a trace since 1948!
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Hmmm…
Speculation aside, one fact remains.
You can’t find a single culture that doesn’t have a mythology involving some version of a dragon.
Period.
Nowadays, modern storytellers develop complex alternate worlds where humans and dragons interact frequently, sometimes combining forces for their mutual benefit.
But there must be an underlying reason that every single culture on earth (or Heaven, for that matter) has stories about humans (or angels) dealing with vicious flying serpentine creatures with very nasty tempers.
FYI, according to the many ancient depictions of heroes besting dragons, to defeat them you’ve got to get them on the ground and shove a long metal rod down their throats.
Really.
Of course, dragons are not the same everywhere, there are many variations on the theme.
Some are considered wise and are revered like the Naga of the Orient and the Feathered Serpent of Mesoamerica.
Others, like the smaller Wyvern of Europe or the gigantic Thunderbird of the desert southwest are feared by the local inhabitants but can potentially be tamed.
What really fascinates me is how dragons are equated with natural disasters. They can cause earthquakes, storms, floods and belch fire like a volcano.
Are we missing something…again?
Well, let’s consider the possibilities:
1. Dragons are actual biological creatures with various sub-species that live on land or in bodies of water. They once interacted with both humans and gods, but now they are extinct or difficult to detect.
2. Dragons are a fantasy fabricated to deflect awareness of covert advanced weaponry that has been used against the unsuspecting public for centuries. Hiding this technology could be a function of mystery schools and secret societies.
3. Dragons are a representation of earth’s telluric currents that create natural catastrophes like earthquakes, typhoons and firestorms when unbalanced. The function of those Old Empire obelisks, pyramids and towers may have been to gain control over these draconic ley lines.
4. Dragons are cosmic forces that bring chaos or protection, depending on how they are summoned and managed. This power can then be cultivated by humans for good or evil.
5. Dragons are descriptions of electrical plasma discharges on the earth. Evidence of past plasma events can be found in architecture and geology as well as the stories and artwork of “primitive” people who survived plasma apocalypses.
Regardless of which answer is correct, our fascination with dragons may not be mere whimsy but a deliberate effort to suppress hidden knowledge of the Controller’s true capabilities.
In this recent interview with the Dark Journalist, Catherine Austin Fitz explains how even though we KNOW about orbiting satellites and military space organizations, the public is programmed to scoff at any suggestion that space-based weaponry has ever be deployed.
Because, ya know, THEY wouldn’t do THAT!
Sigh.
Were you aware that universities have classes on how to simulate dragon attacks?
I kid you not!
Recently, alternative history researchers have been discovering melted ruins all over the world, even in the Americas!
Some are labeled as ancient deteriorated castles while others are passed off as geological formations.
In this video, Howdie Mickoski provides some excellent insights and photos of suspicious historical fires in the US.
He explains how he has shown these old city fire photos to building professionals who said they looked like they were bombed from above, not consumed by typical structural fires.
As Howdie points out, the narratives about such massive fires insist that no one had enough sense to build fireproof buildings.
Yet the photos of the aftermath show many massive solid stone and brick structures, some reduced to rubble while others are barely affected.
Admittedly, I only started investigating dragons after some extensive research into the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 which left me wondering if we’re seeing evidence of a recent reset.
Then I started wondering how it could have been pulled off.
After examining old photos, videos and accounts of San Francisco’s brief but colorful history, I am stumped. The personal stories don’t match the pictures which don’t match the history which doesn’t really explain how this city grew and fell (and grew again) so fast.
But I have found a zillion juicy clues and will follow up with an examination of the destruction of this American city…think I’ll call it There be Dragons!
Oh, and one last thing, you know the song Puff the Magic Dragon?
Do you remember these lyrics about “noble kings and princes” — I don’t.
Puff the Magic Dragon
Lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mists
In a land called Honah Lee
Little Jackie Paper
Loved that rascal Puff
And brought him string
And sealing wax
And other fancy stuff
Together they would travel
On a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched
On Puff’s gigantic tail
Nobel kings and princes
Would bow whenever they came
Pirate ships would lower their flag
When Puff roared out his name.
Oh, Puff the Magic Dragon
Lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mists
In a land called Honah Lee
More musings on fake history:
The Sky is Falling — The Chicken Little Conundrum
Who Knows if the Moon’s a Balloon?
Up, Up and Away!
The Stolen History Mystery
•August 24, 2020 • 303 CommentsHave we just experienced a first hand example of how easy it is to steal history?
The unexplained (and haphazard) archiving of Stolenhistory.org to the Wayback Machine on August 21, 2020 appears to be a modern-day version of a good old fashioned book burning!
What remains of the site is in tatters with bits and pieces of information remaining, but many posts are apparently gone forever.
Gotta wonder if the serious investigations into fringe topics like Tartaria, Hyperborea, Phantom Time, Mudfloods and Earth Grids got a little too close to the truth?
Admittedly, I am particularly peeved because I had only recently begun posting my research on Stolen History after years of lurking.
I was getting great feedback on topics like those suspicious Old Empire buildings such as the Patent Office in DC and the San Francisco Mint that survived devastating fires that torched their respective neighborhoods.
As usual, the official narratives were ridiculous.
Luckily, I saved the photos I posted on Stolen History so I can recreate the thread narrative to a degree.
Unfortunately I’ll never be able to retrieve all those excellent contributions from other members with supporting photos and links.
Which leads to another mysterious aspect of this unfolding episode.
The administrator of the forum — who calls himself Korben Dallas — imposed a gentle, but firm, control over the discussions and deflected any attempts to derail threads, antagonize members or bicker over belief systems.
He clearly outlined his theories and provided supporting links, books and pictures.
First thing to understand is that History is completely mixed up. Chronology is wrong, very very very wrong. Events, even famous, proud events, turn out to be phantom duplicates that happened much later on. The Roman Empire never existed in Italy, and it never happened 2000+ years ago.
KD
Very much like the movie character from the Fifth Element, he came across as the King of Cool who has the skills to handle the job without making a big deal out of it.
But his participation in the site definitely changed in the past few months and members even speculated that he had been replaced by an impostor!
Although the thread titled The Stolen History of Korben Dallas was locked and is not in the archive, I did find a snippet on the search engine blurb:
The Korben Dallas we have now is not the original creator of this forum. There are also other members who have been replaced. This could be Korben Dallas’ last post: … This is stolen history! Korben allowing posts on the coronavirus – a developing situation was strange.
Another snippet recorded his response to the accusation where he stated “A few things happened simultaneously in my life. I currently do not spend nearly as much time reading history and researching.”
Okay, so maybe he was busy or disenchanted, we all know the feeling…
But KD never really participated in many discussions after that, he just faded away.
So, we are left to wonder what happened… did something distract him, did he lose interest in the forum or did he get hijacked?
Now that the site has been compromised, KD’s absence is conspicuous and it’s hard for the members to decide whether to be outraged with him or concerned for his safety.
All we know at this point is that SH is now archived with the most recent posts being from June 29, 2020 and any topics responded to after that point in time are also wiped out.
Members (and long-time lurkers) flocked to forums like Reddit when they discovered the site was archived, hoping for some explanation as to why this respectable forum with zero tolerance for unsubstantiated speculation or hate speech was quasi-scrubbed.
One member set up a Discord server page to collect up some of the missing information and provide PDFs of the ones still available. They’re doing a great job and have launched a new site at https://stolenhistory.net/!
But the question remains, is there a simple explanation for this forum shutting down or was this a deliberate act of suppression because we poked the bear?
If so, which topic blew the hole in their phony baloney history narrative?
Hmmm…
Also worth noting that the SH Patron page is inactive and contributions were refunded.
Really.
So I guess that means he wasn’t in it for the money, eh?
Also the Korben Dallas Twitter account is gone and his Facebook page is inactive. He is persona icognito on line as of 2 days ago.
One last interesting bit — my research turned up a blog page started on PublishOX by Korben Dallas on Stolen History Topics in January 2020.
It has a few posts from January –just about the time he pulled back from the forum — then no more.
There aren’t any comments and the people who signed up to follow the blog are not members of Stolen History and don’t fit the profile one bit — most of them are into bitcoin.
Weird.
Naturally I’m concerned for Alternative History researchers such as myself who have also published information challenging the official story. Could we face the same kind of censorship if things go pear shaped?
I admit my first reaction was to make PDFs of my blogs and move them onto a separate hard drive.
Might print them out for posterity, but then you gotta wonder just how much info would make it through a reset — is it time to get out the chisel?
Anyway, I plan to join in the effort to collect up the remaining bits of Stolen History scattered around the internet and recreate some of the threads I made that were not archived — about 20 — all on juicy topics.
I encourage any SH members (or lurkers) to use my blog to continue discussions.
Maybe we can put this “Humpty Dumpty” back together again!
Love this top comment on Reddit, it says it all!
–]CrackleDMan 37 points 2 days ago
This is horrible. They’ve stolen our stolen history.
More history conundrums at:
Remember the Alamo? Which One
Washington’s Watergate Weirdness
The Smithsonian’s Basement
Sand Castle Realities?
•February 21, 2020 • 7 CommentsSince realizing how cleverly we’ve been hoodwinked into believing a false American history narrative, I started probing some places that puzzled me during my travels (like the Alamo, the Watergate and the Smithsonian) and saw the official story crumble like a sand castle in the surf.
Then I began studying unexplained sky phenomenon for my Chicken Little Conundrum blog and consequently discovered the layers of hidden activity right under our unsuspecting feet that resulted in my World(s) Under Our World research.
I’ve also been following the Dark Journalist’s unfolding revelations that the consciousness-altering X-Technology of the Ancients is the BIG SECRET that has been kept from the public by everyone from the Mystery Schools to the Freemasons to the current administration.
Armed with this new information, I’ve decided to tackle a bizarre experience I had while living in the last place I ever expected to love, the San Luis Valley (SLV) in Southeastern Colorado.
Ironically, I had driven down the ridiculously straight Highway 17 through the Valley a few years before when I was still in “corporate mode.”
I found it dismal beyond belief and wondered what horrid twist of fate would send someone to live in that wasteland.
Well, shortly after that trip I made one of those life-changing decisions to reject the 8-5 grind and see what happened next.
Consequently, I joined a spiritual community which eventually moved to Crestone, Colorado — which is about 15 miles east of Highway 17.
Imagine my surprise when I realized this was the same area I had been repulsed by just a few years before!
Isn’t life funny that way?
Since Crestone is not on the way to anywhere, you gotta drive all the way to the end of Country Road T to find this humble but lively high-desert community tucked into the skirts of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Instead of the down-on-their-luck castoffs I had presumed lived in those windblown trailers and makeshift houses I glimpsed from Highway 17, I encountered some pretty enlightened folk with inventive homes who felt lucky to live in this sacred place.
Although the official population of Crestone is only around 100 people, there are many outlying residents in the Baca who frequent the town since it’s over an hour’s drive to another shopping area.
Along with all the visitors attending workshops and such, it’s a surprisingly busy place with a couple of top-notch art galleries, health food stores and restaurants.
Plus the locals never miss a chance to have a parade, street fair, community picnic or music festival!
Certainly the only town I’ve lived in with a “Free Box” (now a covered shelter) created by residents who believe one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!
By far the most fascinating aspect of Crestone, however, is that it is home to a couple of dozen individual spiritual communities, thanks to a prophecy that inspired Hanne Strong — wife of Maurice Strong (the Canadian oil baron/environmentalist) — to provide free land to any worthwhile “Utopian” enterprises.
Tibetans especially love this region because the Sangre de Cristo mountain range reminds them of the Himalayas, complete with a miniature Mount Everest!
In fact, Crestone Peak is often used as a training ground for prospective Everest climbers.
In 1996, the Tibetans consecrated this magnificent stupa, the Karma Thegsum Tashi Gomang (Many Auspicious Gateways), above Crestone positioned to catch the last rays of the sunset — sometimes flooding the valley in a momentary golden glow.
I soon learned that the San Luis Valley has long been considered sacred ground to all the local tribes.
They would put away their weapons before descending from the mountains and abstain from quarrelsome behaviors while there. No permanent settlements were allowed, the land was reserved for ceremony.
Native folklore explains that the SLV holds the hidden entrance to their sipapu, an underground complex where their ancestors escaped from previous earth cataclysms and were cared for by the Ant People until they could return to the surface generations later.
Hopi prophecy tells that when the Blue Star Kachina appears in the sky, the “good people” will once again be invited to enter this sanctuary to escape the next Purification.
Ants played a crucial role in the survival of the ancient Hopi. The Ant People’s great kiva provided sanctuary during both the destruction of the First World, or First Era, by fire (volcanism or asteroids) and the Second World by ice (glaciers).
Although the Ant People may be legendary, the case of bi-location that occurred in the SLV during the 17th century is rigorously documented.
It concerns the Blue Nun, María Jesus de Ágreda, a Spanish lady of a noble house who became enraptured with religious experiences.
Her devout practices culminated in her laying prostrate (sometimes levitating!) for days on the chapel floor at the Poor Clares’ Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Ágreda, Spain.
Turns out that during these episodes the Sister would physically appear to the native tribes in the San Luis Valley and preach the gospel, even teaching them how to make and use rosary beads!
These beads were later presented to the Spanish clergy as proof of her ministry and consequently saved her from the Inquisition which doubted her claims.
An interesting side note, in the late 1800’s there was a rogue Catholic mission on the west side of the Valley called the Hermanos Penitentes who practiced public self-flagellation to atone for their sins.
One of their bizarre projects was to hang from ropes over a cliff so they could paint the likeness of the Blue Nun on this rock face.
Really.
Guess it’s no surprise that the SLV is a hot spot for paranormal activity?
From UFOs to Black Triangles, Bigfoot sightings to secret portals, lost time episodes to animal mutilations (including Snippy the Horse) — it’s got them all!
Paranormal researcher Christopher O’Brien has documented many instances of the supernatural activity in his series of books on the SLV.
[The] San Luis Valley (“SLV”)—is one of North America’s premier hot spot locations. Hot spot regions are veritable magnets for reports of paranormal events, but unfortunately, any attempt to define what constitutes a truly “paranormal” event is wrought with perilous philosophic and scientific challenges, and a lack of hard, scientific data.
Stories of witches, skinwalkers, devils, thunderbirds, ghosts, elementals and spooklights have been told here for generations, and prior to my arrival, knowledge of past reports of unexplained activity had not traveled out into the mainstream beyond the valley. When I moved here in 1989 little did I realize that I would spend the better part of the next fifteen years investigating, researching and documenting around a thousand unusual events—all occurring within the well-defined confines of this specific regional Petri dish.
Granted, the combination of the 7,000+ ft altitude, sparse population and lack of light pollution makes for some spectacular night time skies in the Valley.
So I guess it’s also no surprise that a top tourist attraction in the SLV is the UFO Watchtower, Giftshop and Campground.
I kid you not!
I mean, it is on the 37th Parallel, rumored to be America’s Paranormal Highway!
But to me, the weirdest feature of the SLV is the Great Sand Dunes National Monument — a 30 square mile “sandbox” piled up to 750 feet high against the feet of the Sangre de Cristos.
The quackademics claim it was all formed by some quirky wind currents.
Sure. Whatever.
The dunes were named Saa waap maa nache (sand that moves) by the Utes and the Jicarilla Apaches called the dunes Sei-anyedi (it goes up and down).
The dune field lies beside Blanca Peak, the easternmost of the four sacred mountains of the Navajo, who call her “Sisnaajini,“
The Holy People dressed Sisnaajiní with a perfect white shell for positive thoughts and thinking.
Then the Holy People ran a bolt of lighting through a sacred mountain to fasten the East mountain to our Mother Earth.
Since I found the SLV so fascinating, I sought out jobs that allowed me to drive around the region. Must admit I never saw a single UFO, Bigfoot or Skinwalker (but plenty of military aircraft).
I did, however, have a decidedly paranormal experience in the Valley which I have pondered ever since.
It happened on a lonely little side road skirting the Great Sand Dunes that passes the sad little remnant of a once mighty lake. It runs straight as an arrow and rarely has any traffic, so it was a nice easy drive after dealing with trucks and tourists on the highway all day.
So I was cruising along near the lake in fine weather, sober as a judge, when I felt a funny sensation and then everything around me suddenly changed.
Hard to describe, but it seemed the entire landscape “came alive” and the road was the only remotely solid thing I could see. Everything else was fluctuating — like the land had become fluid and the sky was an ocean full of tiny single-cell looking creatures visible only as rainbow flashes but thick as minnows in a pond.
The sensation was definitely hallucinatory in nature, but I was perfectly lucid and able to rationally assess what was happening.
The car continued driving just fine, so I was pretty sure this wasn’t an “alien abduction” scenario. I was not frightened, but did feel a bit enchanted and excited to be witnessing such a marvel.
The event lasted a few minutes and I only traveled a couple of miles along the road during the episode.
Suddenly, it was over and I was back in our solid world.
Hmmmm…
At the time I could only imagine that I had driven through some kind of “portal” but that didn’t really hold up since I drove that road many times and only had the one experience.
Besides, I wasn’t transported anywhere and didn’t enter another dimension, I just witnessed a momentary distortion in our reality field.
The experience did arouse my interest in Star Gates and I began investigating suspicious ancient sites and speculating where there might be modern portals — which prompted me to start this blog in the first place to share all the wild evidence I was finding!
Then I came across Daniel Liszt (the Dark Journalist) and his hard evidence about the covert use of X-Tech which creates what he calls the “Apotheum Effect” that distorts reality.
According to his theory, the whole UFO cover-up nonsense is about hiding this X-Tech from the public while they try to control these inevitable mind-bending side effects so they can dazzle us with their “new” technology.
His descriptions of the Apotheum effect (common in the Bermuda Triangle cases) reminded me of my SLV experience and started me wondering what might be underneath all that sand, especially since I now suspect the area was subjected to the relatively recent North American Mudflood.
When I looked into the D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) in my World(s) Under Our World research, I came across this strange hand-drawn map showing some of these facilities.
Sure enough, roughly under Mt. Blanca is a underground base designated as a COG (Continuation of Government?) with shuttle tunnels leading south, one ending in Taos.
Hmmmm…
Ever hear of the Taos Hum?
Pretty sure all the underground complexes getting tunneled out could well account for the mysterious hum residents have documented!
I mean, right in the neighborhood is Cheyenne Mountain, the one they love to brag about and work into their Star Gate shows!
Not to mention the ones they don’t like to talk about, like Dulce Base, the underground facility where grey aliens (ant people?) and military personnel co-exist (not always peacefully).
So adding DJ’s information about the Apotheum effect to the data about huge underground complexes around the SLV makes me wonder…
Did I drive over a subterranean facility while the Black Ops Bunch was down there playing with their reverse engineered X-Tech?
If so, this means the modern UFO sightings, animal mutilations and missing time episodes reported in the Valley could be explained as the result of some government (or private) secret testing and/or psy-op programs.
The fact that the SLV is still so sparsely populated (and so near other military bases) makes it an ideal place to hold covert operations.
Ada Florescu visited the SLV and talked with UFO Watchtower owner Judy Messoline (who wrote That Crazy Lady Down The Road) about her experiences with suspicious black helicopters she observes going into Blanca Peak.
But what if all this secret military activity is BECAUSE there IS a dimensional “doorway” near the Sand Dunes?
Has the sacred nature of the San Luis Valley been preserved from ancient times to modern day precisely to attract the kind of people who can access the portal during earth-changing catastrophes?
These words were spoken by Sotuknang at the beginning of the Fourth World:
“See,” said Sotuknang, “I have washed away even the footprints of your Emergence; the stepping-stones which I left for you. Down on the bottom of the seas lie all the proud cities, the flying patuwvotas [shields], and the worldly treasures corrupted with evil, and those people who found no time to sing the praises to the Creator from the tops of their hills. But the day will come, if you preserve the memory and the meaning of your Emergence, when these stepping-stones will emerge again to prove the truth you speak.”
If that’s the case, the San Luis Valley could well be the most important place on earth!
More research into the secrets lying hidden under the sand at:
The Mudflood, Queen Califia and the Gold Rush
The Lost Civilizations of North America
Who Knows if the Moon’s a Balloon?
•September 20, 2019 • 31 CommentsThis investigation of our nearest celestial neighbor is unashamedly influenced by a book title in my library during my formative years — David Niven’s autobiography The Moon’s a Balloon.
The phrase actually comes from an e.e. cummings poem:
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky–filled with pretty people?
(and if you and I should
get into it, if they
should take me and take you into their balloon
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty peoplethan houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited, wherealways
it’s
Spring) and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves.
One of my earliest memories, I think I was about 4, was when the editor of our hometown newspaper was visiting and asked me if I could see the Man in the Moon — to which I quite haughtily replied that there was no such thing, it was just the shadows cast by the rocks and craters.
The next day he published a humorous editorial about our conversation noting that “kids these days” don’t fall for silly stories about the Man in the Moon.
Hmmmm…
So just what did our forefathers believe about the Moon?
That question lead me to the Great Moon Hoax of 1835.
Considered the original “fake news” story, it started with a series of six articles printed in the fledgling New York Sun about the discoveries made by the famed astronomer Sir John Herschel with a monstrous telescope set up at the Cape of Good Hope.
The stories created a public sensation with their descriptions of a habitable white sand Moon populated by furry winged humanoid creatures who mated in the open, made grand structures and had domesticated bison-like creatures and uni-horn goats.
It created such a buzz that papers around the world picked up the series and hired illustrators to interpret the descriptions of our Lunar neighbors for their readers.
I kid you not!
Turns out that Sir Herschel’s assistant did not write the articles as claimed, but it is a firm fact that Herschel had a telescope at the Cape of Good Hope where he searched for evidence of Lunar life.
He even called the anticipated Lunar inhabitants Selenites, a term later coined by H.G. Wells in his popular series The First Men in the Moon originally published in The Strand magazine in 1900.
Seems Sir John’s father, William Herschel — a famous astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus (originally named after him) — shared his son’s speculations that intelligent life existed on the Moon and discussed the issue with contemporaries like Franz von Paul Gruithuisen .
Consequently, when the readers of a new 19th century penny daily discovered this “supplement” about Herschel’s report from the official sounding Edinburgh Journal of Science, it was a while before the findings were even questioned!
Eventually the story was debunked by a rival newspaper and the author identified as Richard Adams Locke, the co-publisher of The Sun, although he denied it for years. In his obituary they called the Moon Hoax “the most successful scientific joke ever published.”
The story was told with a minuteness of detail and dexterous use of technical phrases that not only imposed upon the ordinary reader but deceived and puzzled men of science to an astonishing degree.
Interesting to note that Edgar Alan Poe claimed the story was plagiarized from his 1850 short story The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall about a man who inadvertently flew to the Moon and sent a letter back to Earth describing Lunar life.
Since Locke was Poe’s publisher at the time, the claim doubtless had some merit.
Despite the debunking, the public remained fascinated by the subject and snapped up 60,000 pamphlets that elaborated on the hoax!
By 1865, Jules Verne had written From the Earth to the Moon which referenced the Moon Hoax and fed the public’s continuing fascination with Moon Men.
Then things took a really weird turn.
In 1894, respected engineer and amateur astronomer Hanns Hörbiger had a vision of the Doctrine of Eternal Ice that showed him how the entire cosmos is composed of ice in various states of disintegration.
According to his vision, the icy Moon(s) were regularly captured by the Earth’s gravity until they began to shed off frozen shells, laying waste to huge sections of Earth with ice showers followed by meteors of iron.
The Moon before ours, the “Tertiary Moon,” caused most of the dramatic events recorded in mythology ~ this includes the sinking of Atlantis. The Moon for the most part is comprised of ice and rock and our Moon Luna is only the latest of a series of Moons that have been captured by Earth’s gravity over the course of the ages.
Each successive Moon orbits a spiral path drawing gradually closer to the Earth, until it eventually breaks apart and showers the Earth with huge masses of ice and rock, causing great upheaval upon the Earth.
The catastrophic earth quakes, floods and glacial conditions following the downfall of the Tertiary Moon forced the Aryan-Atlanteans to migrate eastward over the ice bridge.
After WWI, the Cosmic Ice concept was heavily promoted by the National Socialist Party as the German antithesis to the Jewish theory of relativity.
The W.E.L. supporters believed that “Our Nordic ancestors grew strong in ice and snow; belief in the Cosmic Ice is consequently the natural heritage of Nordic Man.”
No effort was spared in popularising the theory: “cosmotechnical” societies were founded, which offered public lectures that attracted large audiences, there were cosmic ice movies and radio programs, and even cosmic ice journals and novels.
Curiously, when examining the evidence of periodic Mudflood catastrophes, it often appears as though entire regions, especially the Hyperborean Polar Continents, have experienced a major ice event.
I remember being taught there was no water on the moon, but now they speculate there are up to 100 million metric tons of ice lurking in the craters of the Moon’s poles — and they are planning expeditions to harvest the ice!
Hmmmm…
So, back when I was in college taking astronomy courses I saw a book titled “Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon.”
I remember laughing out loud and buying the cheap little paperback while telling myself this was one theory that was going to be impossible to believe.
Instead, I found myself rather impressed by the logic behind the artificial hollow Moon concept, especially the findings about the Moon’s structure which didn’t match up with our current explanations of Lunar geology.
For instance, the instruments left on the Moon indicate that it rings like a bell when struck by space debris (or man-made satellites).
Also, despite the size of the impact craters, none of them go deeper than 3-4 miles — indicating a uniform protective coating inside the sphere.
“Even CONSERVATIVE estimates by scientists indicate that meteors 10 miles or more in diameter should have penetrated the Moon’s surface to a depth of 4 or 5 TIMES that diameter; yet the deepest Moon crater we know about (the Gagarin Crater) is 186 miles across but less than 4 miles deep.”
So naturally, I asked my astronomy professor if he could explain these curious findings. He responded that there were no easy answers to my questions and I didn’t need to worry about them since they weren’t covered in his curriculum.
Well, that didn’t satisfy my curiosity one bit and made me wonder just what else might be glossed over in my formal studies.
Actually, there was another book in my library called You Will Go To The Moon that I contemplated a lot as a kid.
It came with a collection of Dr. Seuss books — which even at a tender age I found strange.
I mean, what was this science book doing packaged in a fantasy series?
I think I get the joke now, though.
Admittedly, my hopes were reinforced when 10 years later in 1968 Stanley Kubrick released 2001: A Space Odyssey so the public (and the Apollo astronauts) watched it right before the “real” moon shot!
I saw that movie 11 times before it left the theater on the first run and read every scrap of material published about it since.
I even had this poster on my wall…
No doubt the movie left me with the impression that Earth/Lunar travel was just around the corner.
I watched the Space Race build as I grew up, ready to cheer on the human conquest of the Moon and line up for my ticket!
Although the concept was exciting, I admit I found the actual Apollo missions and astronauts pretty damned dull.
I barely noticed in 1972 when they stopped the Moon shots. I don’t think anyone realized at the time that it was really our last Lunar excursion.
Then I started noticing how instead of advancing us into space, NASA seemed pretty content to piddle around in near-Earth orbit and fantasize about how cool it would be to go to other planets.
Hey, we already did that, right? What’s the big deal?
Hmmmm….
So I broke down and considered the evidence that there had been a fake American Moon program. They say it was pulled off by Mr. Kubrick — the very man who convinced my generation that a civilian shuttle to the Moon was totally plausible!
The clencher for me on the whole fake Moon landing question was the exhaustive research by Dave McGowan, a talented challenger of quackadamia who also possessed a wonderful sense of humor.
His series Wagging the Moondoggie not only tackles the hard questions but pokes great fun at the space program in the process.
Highly recommended if you need a good laugh at the absurdity of it all while learning how the illusion was managed.
Here’s a sample:
Had the Apollo program been a real space exploration endeavor, the first manned flight of the Saturn V would obviously have gone no further than low-Earth orbit, as had been planned. This would likely have been followed by an unmanned flight to the Moon, and then possibly a flight ‘piloted’ by a dog or some other such mammalian life form. But taking logical, methodical steps toward achieving goals in space was for those pussies over in Russia. America was going to take the John Wayne approach.
Then there is another theory I also ponder proposed by the Dark Journalist.
He thinks that we DID go to the Moon, but we used X-Tech to get there and faked the public landings for political reasons.
That would explain how some of the human artifacts (like those reflectors) got on the Moon if the Apollo missions were a bunch of bunk.
D.J.’s theory goes that NASA is just a puppet show to distract the public from the Nazi scientists and technologies brought into the US through Operation Paperclip and Operation Lusty which have subsequently been co-opted by government (and private) black budget programs.
The testing of this technology led to the rash of UFO sightings since the 1940’s, most notably the Roswell incident (apparently the REAL focus of Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Hearings).
Now David Icke has stepped into the debate with his theory that the Moon is a Matrix.
Icke believes that the Moon is an interdimensional, interdensity portal for entities and energies from other dimensions. He believes that aliens use the Moon as a home base for hijacking signals from the universe so that our bodily forms that are experiencing this virtual reality on Earth, can’t fully experience what our creator meant for it to be.
If you’ve ever read Doris Lessing’s Shikasta series, the idea that the Earth is being blocked from the SOWF (Substance of WE feeling) isn’t a new concept.
And what about the persistent witticism that the Moon is made of green cheese?
Well, no one knows where it started, but the joke has been around thousands of years and has consistently been used to indicate how gullible people (and animals) can be about the Moon.
Obviously a ridiculous concept, but still so firmly fixed in our vernacular that the Business Insider thinks its worthy of a little “what if” clip!
Of course, NASA can’t resist the urge to poke fun with this fake picture from the Hubble telescope proving the Moon was made of cheese because they found the expiration date!
It was released on April 1, 2002. Very funny.
And last but not least, I still don’t get the weird math coincidence that somehow magically aligns the Earth, Moon and Sun to create perfect, predictable eclipses.
I know the quackademic explanation, but it doesn’t compute in my cosmos.
I suspect the dance between these three celestial bodies is governed by forces we have yet to comprehend.
So whenever I see the Moon hanging out in the sky, the only thing I’m relatively certain of is that it’s not just a inert hunk of rock put into a tidal lock around Earth by random gravitational forces.
I’m also having a tough time with the story about how we got to the Moon and why we can’t go back…it all seems quite dodgy!
Will future generations consider us as gullible as we (now) consider our forefathers who fell for the (first) Great Moon Hoax?
All I can say is after all that research, I still can’t laugh off the question:
What if the Moon’s a Balloon?
More speculations on sky phenomenon:
The Sky is Falling — The Chicken Little Conundrum
More hollow planet theories at
The World(s) Within Our World.
The World(s) Under Our World
•August 24, 2019 • 24 CommentsAfter researching the high strangeness in the skies above our heads, I began looking into what’s going on under the surface of our world.
It didn’t take much digging around (excuse the pun) to discover some pretty weird shit going on down there, too!
Let’s start with the natural formations scattered all across the USA.
I was raised in a part of Texas riddled with cave complexes where you could hear a hollow sound when walking across the bare rock that formed the roofs of these subterranean chambers.
It was an eerie sensation to realize there was a whole Chthonic world just a few feet under my feet!
I remember the discovery of the huge Inner Space Caverns in 1963 when they were building a new overpass for Interstate 35. Their drills kept disappearing into a void! It was a big deal when they finally cut a hole large enough to send in a team to investigate.
Turns out caves just keep popping up all over (or should I say under?) Texas — they recently stumbled onto another sizable one beneath a Round Rock subdivision!
Many spelunkers speculate that eventually they will open up passages that will link many of the now separate cave systems into massive complexes.
After all, they had no idea there was a HUGE cave sitting right next to Carlsbad Caverns until 1986!
Only professionals are allowed in the Lechuguilla Cave at present — besides the entrance being tricky enough to be labeled the ‘Misery Hole’ — it’s no small matter to rescue an injured caver. Since many of the formations are so delicate the public may never be invited inside, we’ll have to be content with the hard-won BBC footage for now.
Turns out there are some pretty fascinating things going on in caves… here are a few of my favorites:
1. The Luray Caverns in Virginia are technically the world’s biggest instrument! The Stalacpipe Organ was developed in the 1950’s by Leland W. Sprinkle to strike selected stalactites that make perfect tones. You can hear the music throughout the entire 64 acre cave network!
Working as both a player piano and a live concert instrument, the Stalacpipe Organ has attracted the interest of music lovers from Mr. Rogers to Pepe Deluxé, a Finnish electronic band.
2. The Grand Canyon Cave Hotel Room is nestled 21 stories underground in a sprawling cave complex. They advertise it as the quietest (and darkest) hotel room ever – but be prepared to shell out $800 per night for the experience!
3. The Giant Crystal Cave in the Naica Mine in Mexico was created by a unique combination of temperature and humidity that allowed the crystals to grow to enormous size before the water was pumped out to extract the minerals.
Unlike most caves that maintain a steady cool temperature, the extreme heat and humidity in here can be fatal to humans unless they are properly equipped.
Spelunkers admit that after 10 minutes inside they begin to experience an overwhelming desire to lay down and die. Many skeletons were discovered in this cave.
4. Wyandotte Cave in Illinois boast Monument Mountain, the highest underground mount in the world!
I stumbled on this structure when I was comparing worldwide seismograph readings and noticed this one registering independent rhythms.
Hmmmm…
Does that flat round wall behind the mount look suspicious to anyone else?
It rekindled my theories that natural portals were used by Old Empire cultures — which I suspect is why we don’t find more physical evidence of early travel.
(Further speculations on portals at my Star Gates in Caves blog.)
So, besides uncountable natural caverns under the surface — what else is lurking under our supposedly solid ground?
How about all those man-made subterranean structures being unearthed all over the world?
In fact, I dare you to name a major metropolitan city that does NOT have a labyrinth of man-made structures underneath it…
Modern historians typically credit these underground complexes with transportation networks, smuggling operations or Prohibition Era hideaways and concoct scary stories to embellish their conclusions.
I suspect many cities under cities were actually completely forgotten (reset scenario?) and re-purposed at a later date, some are too well made just to be a place to stash booty.
Undoubtedly many underground complexes are perfect for nefarious deeds, but is that the only reason we are finding (or creating) huge buried communities?
Some cultures have used subterranean housing much like Tolkien’s Hobbits, crafting cozy homes that include space for storage and livestock with intricate ventilation and water distribution networks.
So, guess what American city this recently (re)-discovered structure was found lurking beneath?
Did you guess Houston, Texas?
Yep, me neither, but that is their original water cistern. According to the narrative it was (supposedly) built in the 1920’s…when the area was a fetid floodplain. Okay. Sure. Whatever.
Anyway, it was abandoned in the 60’s when they broke it and had to build a newfangled reservoir. Then they somehow managed to totally forget about this architectural marvel — which by the way is very similar to the ones built in Turkey during the 6th century.
Naturally the Controller Crowd wanted to demolish the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, but a savvy developer snatched it up and made it into a art venue.
I kid you not.
Don’t even get me started on the tunnels under Washington, DC.
Let’s just mention my favorite bullshit story about their origin involving Harrison G. Dyer, a Smithsonian entomologist (bug collector… mosquitoes were his specialty) who supposedly — just for fun — constructed a network of tunnels under his home in the prestigious Dupont Circle neighborhood.
When found in the 1920’s, they were lined with high-end bricks on which were pasted old German newspapers. That started a lot of rumors until Dyer fessed up to his “hobby.” Now many of Dyer’s tunnels are being integrated into the new Dupont Underground Art Space.
Oh, some of these tunnels have been implicated in the Pizza-Gate controversy because the Alefanis family owns many properties directly above them.
Anyway, it turns out many of the underground cities and tunnels were re-purposed for troop quarters or military training grounds.
Which leads to the next layer of mystery going on way underneath our feet, the D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases).
Now this is some scary shit…
Yep, there seem to be a lot of them and I’m sure they’re building a lot more every day, some as deep as 2,000 feet. The amount of workers necessary to build and maintain these facilities indicates that a lot of people spend a lot of time underneath North America. And they don’t talk about it a lot.
Did you know they have a machine that can melt through rock at the rate of 7 MPH?!?
Called the Subterrene, the Los Almos machine looks like a vicious giant mole.
The beauty of the Subterrene is that, as it burrows through the rock hundreds of feet below the surface, it heats whatever stone it encounters into molten rock, or magma, which cools after the Subterrene has moved on. The result is a tunnel with a smooth, glazed lining. For power, the Subterrene can use a built-in minature nuclear engine or even a conventional power plant.
Regarding D.U.M.B.s, I had a bizarre experience once while driving around outside Taos, New Mexico.
I was in the middle of nowhere on a rather bumpy road and suddenly noticed a beautifully smooth paved single lane road branching off and leading around a low mountain. I turned off and followed it, but just around the bend it went right up to the mountainside. No signs, no guardrail, nothing…just a perfect road ending at a cliff face. When I went back the next week to get pictures, it was gone. Totally gone.
Anyway, turns out it’s not all nasty stuff down there. The world has recently been enlightened about an elaborate underground temple complex in the Italian Alps, Damanhur.
We now know that an alternative community had been building this subterranean 8 room complex since 1978 without anyone noticing until 1992 when someone realized that all the materials being delivered to the building site never resulted in any new construction! When the police finally investigated, they found a trap door leading to these stunning chambers:
But all that is, as they say, just scratching the surface…
Because now we come to the Hollow Earth theory.
I declare that the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles twelve or sixteen degrees. I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.
This remarkable statement was issued in 1818 by Captain John Cleves Symmes, Jr., an officer in the War of 1812 from a respectable family. He dedicated the remainder of his life to proving the existence of a Hollow Earth.
Known as the man with the hole at the pole, he was subjected to much public ridicule but nonetheless managed to convince then president John Quincy Adams (who botched the formation of Smithsonian Institution) to spend federal resources to launch expeditions to contact the Inner Earth Mole People. Obviously this project did not result in any concrete evidence and was quickly dismissed by the next president, Andrew Jackson.
Many turn-of-the-century novels fueled the public imagination about the existence of worlds within our world. A fascinating tale called Symzonia, Voyage of Discovery, thought to be written by Symmes under a pen name, described a journey through the Antarctic opening where the author meets an advanced race of humans living in harmony because their main law was to exile any wrongdoers to the surface world.
Other books like Dweller on Two Planets inspired spiritual organizations like the “I Am” movement in the 1930’s that attracted over 1 million subscribers. They believed Mt. Shasta in California was home to Inner Earth dwellers who were once inhabitants of Lemuria.
Books such as Etidorpha that described the benefits of inner earth conditions (no weariness, hunger or thirst) certainly piqued curiosity.
Then there is the strange tale by Admiral Richard Byrd about his bizarre 1947 Antarctic expedition, Operation Highjump. The official story admits that he did report a “land of blue and green lakes and brown hills in an otherwise limitless expanse of ice.”
However, there is much more to the story according to his secret diary released after his death. In it he claims he was taken to an advanced world beneath the ice:
The radioman and I are taken from the aircraft and we are received in a most cordial manner. We were then boarded on a small platform-like conveyance with no wheels! It moves us toward a glowing city with great swiftness. As we approach, the city seems to be made of a crystal material.
And last, but certainly not least, was the Cellular Cosmology theory that our world is actually inside a nest of spheres.
Proposed by Dr. Cyrus Teed, he collected a bunch of followers and founded the Koreshan Unity community on 370 acres in Florida in the 1890’s. His Utopian ideals attracted the admiration of prominent men like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
Makes you wonder if the stories of places like Mel’s Hole in Washington (and the highly protected Devil’s Hole in Nevada) might lead to the world(s) within our world?
After delving for so many clues in both the earth and sky, I certainly have a new respect for the truism: As Above, So Below!
Further investigations!
The Sky is Falling – The Chicken Little Conundrum
•June 14, 2019 • 11 CommentsI know you know the story of Chicken Little (maybe as Henny Penny or Chicken Licken) and the reason I know you know is because it is one of the world’s oldest fables and is found in almost every culture!
The first recorded example is found in an ancient Buddhist manuscript (with a hare instead of a chicken) that dates back 25 centuries. The fable apparently hasn’t lost its appeal through the ages!
Although there are variations of the story, we all know the main theme: one silly creature is hit by a falling object (usually an acorn) and creates panic in the neighborhood by convincing everyone that the sky is falling.
The ensuing chaos often ends with the gullible characters (always with rhyming names) becoming victims of the sly fox who takes advantage of the situation and lures them into his cave.
A quick search reveals that Chicken Little’s tale of shame has been portrayed in every artistic medium we’ve concocted.
Apparently it’s long been a priority to educate the public about the dangers of unsubstantiated rumors or what we now call “fake news.”
Then you come across this insidious version…
In 1943, Disney made a wartime propaganda cartoon adaptation of Chicken Little that proved so disturbing that it now comes with a disclaimer warning parents that it may not be suitable for children!
After watching that obvious hit piece, I have to wonder about Disney’s motivation for releasing a Chicken Little movie in 2005.
First off, the story line lays on the humiliation aspect pretty thick!
In typical Disney fashion, they twisted the plot so that in this case the sky is falling but it’s because of the extraterrestrials. So Chicken Little gets to save the earth from an alien invasion and be the hero after all.
Hmmmm…
Pretty insidious in light of the Dark Journalist’s investigations into how X-Technology has been developed secretly by black-ops programs and their frantic attempts to whip up fear of an alien invasion (or meteors) so they can come to the rescue with their fancy weapons.
So this all starts me wondering — is there a reason the Chicken Little fable is known throughout the world?
Could it be a control mechanism to make sure that anyone who even thinks that the sky is falling can expect to be instantly persecuted?
When the apple fell on Newton’s head, he discovered gravity, but when an acorn fell on Chicken Little’s head, he became delusional?
Are we missing something here?
Hmmmm…
Okay, let’s consider that most ancient religious texts explain quite matter-of-factly that there is a physical barrier between Heaven and Earth.
The Bible refers to it as a Raqia, (translated as the firmament), the Taoist call it the Dao, the Egyptians refer to it as a woman named Nut … in fact, there are thousands of mythological references to the firmament.
Cultural legends describing the dome are abundant enough to include arrows being shot into the firmament and lodging there (Japan, Native America, Chuckchee), adventurers climbing up to the sky (India), people climbing up through a hole in the firmament (Navaho) or tumbling down through one (Seneca), and heroes sailing a ship to the place where the sky meets the earth (Buriat), and where the firmament is so low that ship masts can end up scraping it.[1]
Sure, the firmament concept is easily explained away as silly superstitious conjecture based on the visual appearance of the sky as a dome when viewed from the Earth.
The science guys assure us that the sky contains no solid matter, just water vapor molecules that eventually fade into space at the Karmen Line … but they’re not quite sure where that is…
But we’re getting wise to the bullshit we’ve been fed about space and our place in it.
Let’s start by investigating the sky phenomenon with the stories of Magonia, a realm in the clouds whose inhabitants have great air ships that navigate the sky seas.
Please note that there are documented accounts of encounters with Magonians who fell to earth and began to drown in our dense atmosphere. One town reported that a Magonian ship caught its anchor on a church steeple and a crew man had to climb down and free it.
An Archbishop of Lyon recorded that the townspeople believed the Magonians employed Frankish weather magicians, or tempestarii, to whip up wicked storms over earthly farms so they could steal massive amounts of produce and livestock to maintain their hidden civilization in the clouds.
I promise you, if you read the fantasy series Magonia by Maria Dehvana Headely you will never be able to look at a stormy sky again without scanning for squall whales.
Or maybe you’ve heard of Jacques Valle’s controversial book Passport to Magoria based on his interviews with eye witnesses to UFO phenomenon?
Interesting choice of title…
But don’t get the idea that only unverifiable fantasy stuff goes on in the sky.
It gets serious fast when you find out about the US Cold War’s Operation Fishbowl in 1958 and 1962 that launched multiple thermonuclear warheads from Johnston Island near the equator into the upper atmosphere.
The resulting EMP created an instant aurora that was mirrored in the opposite hemisphere. It also knocked out a bunch of satellites and communications networks — but that didn’t stop the testing, this was just too important!
If you take the Project Fishbowl name literally (especially when you learn the warheads were named Starfish and Bluegill launched by a rocket named Thor) it makes you wonder just what they were hoping to accomplish…
Did you know they actually lost a nuclear warhead during a failed Operation Fishbowl launch in the Pacific that was never recovered?
I kid you not!!!
Sure looks to me like those blasts were disturbing more than a little water vapor at that altitude!
Then we’ve got all those quirky high altitude electrical phenomenon they’ve been studying since the 80’s that have cutsie names like Sprites and Elves that come with equally ridiculous quackademic explanations.
Frankly these structures look more like sky-based deep sea creatures than random electrical phenomenon.
Also consider that footage that Martyn Stubbs recorded in the 90’s directly from the NASA live feeds at his public broadcast station in Canada. Imagine his surprise when he discovered undeniable evidence of independently moving objects in space that seriously resemble terrestrial undersea life forms.
Makes me wonder about those reports through the centuries, right up to the present, of all kinds of sea life falling from the sky including frogs, fish, shrimp, starfish or octopus — even a turtle encased in ice!
All that evidence of stuff coming out of the sky begs the question: Is there an ocean over our heads instead of a big black vacuum?
And seriously, what about all those reports of planes sitting stock still in thin air?
That scenario defies all laws of physics we’ve been taught about gravity and air density and makes you rethink everything you’ve learned about the sky.
And last, but certainly not least, we have the recent discussions about a recurring Plasma Apocalypse that creates a hole in the sky that sucks up everything and everybody on the surface.
The reason we suspect they are recurring are the mysterious “discharge” scenarios recorded in prehistoric rock art around the world. Lots of floating people and animals in those petroglyphs, too!
According to the plasma researchers, the most secure place to be during a plasma discharge event is in a natural cave…does that remind you a little of the Chicken Little story again?
Hopefully, this new look at the old Chicken Little fable will give you food for thought about the sky and all the strange things going on up there that we are not supposed to notice.
More musings on mass manipulation:
Seeing the Occult in Public Art
Lady Liberty’s DNA.
Those Damned Dams
•May 21, 2019 • 18 CommentsMy recent investigations into the idea that Ancient American Empires in the West were deliberately destroyed by Exotic Technology that created Mudfloods and prompted the California Gold Rush to plunder these lightly buried riches led me to the most insidious Controller scheme of them all — those Damned Dams!
Counting every dam over 3 feet, there has been on average a dam per day erected since Thomas Jefferson was president!
Busy little beavers, aren’t they? Guess they figured it all out in their (Masonic) lodges.
As of 2009 there are 84,100 of these Damned Dams listed in the National Inventory of Dams and of those 1,595 are Significant Hazard Dams within one mile of a downstream city.
Dam failures have occurred in every state in the US and there have been 35 official lethal Dam failures in America since 1874.
Initially, the reasons for a community approving a Dam are valid enough;
– fresh water supply
– flood control
– navigable waterways
– power stations
– recreational areas
– scenic waterfront property.
It’s not until you step back and see it from a Controller’s perspective that you realize the insidious part about what else can be done with these Damned Dams;
– submerge evidence of the previous civilizations
– replace free Antiqui-Tech with centralized metered power grids
– inundate or dehydrate targeted areas
– limit info about impending land changes to robber barons
– capitalize on rebuilding after dam failures wipe out entire regions.
Probably the two most preventable, and deadly, American dam failures were the direct result of greedy management and disregard for the consequences.
The Jonestown Pennsylvania flood of 1889 was caused by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club who bought the dam, sold the discharge pipe for scrap and put a net across the top to keep their imported sport fish from going downstream.
The fact that a barbed wire fence factory was the first structure encountered by the 20 millions tons of water that hit Jonestown contributed greatly to the death toll of over 2,000 in the town, many of whom could not be identified.
The other preventable incident occurred in March of 1928 when the St. Francis Dam collapsed just hours after the designer and darling of Los Angeles, William Mulholland, had inspected a leak and declared it inconsequential.
Since the dam broke after midnight, there was no warning and 600 people downstream died when the water slammed into their homes.
No charges were filed — although Mullholland did assume full responsibility during the inquiry.
In fact, there have never been any arrests (and very few successful lawsuits) related to poor engineering or maintenance resulting in dam failures.
Fun fact…in 2005 the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers were touring the fully automated Taum Sauk Pump Storage Plant to present an award for innovation when their representatives noticed a breach that was leaking like “Niagara Falls” that had gone unnoticed.
I kid you not!
Attempts to repair the weak point failed and it collapsed 9 weeks later, destroying 300 acres of State Park lands which cost over $1 Billion to restore. Thankfully no (human) lives were lost.
The situation at the Orville Dam in California has set off my alarms, especially when I realized how the Feather River branches off from where I suspect Queen Califia’s Gold Kingdom was destroyed.
No big leap to conjecture some treasure debris could well be piled up behind that Damned Dam — and they know it.
Turns out people are finding plenty just digging in the cracks from the recent disruptions around the damaged spillway — and the media is promoting it like a lottery.
I’m sad to say after the research I have done into the Controller mentality and their lust for gold, I’m worried about the nearby residents and hope they trust their instincts instead of the quackademics.
Many concerned citizens have tried (in vain) to stop these Damned Dams from destroying some of the most beautiful canyon lands in the US.
Perhaps the most infamous is Katie Lee, a popular folk singer who not only wrote great protest songs but stripped bare in 1962 for a photo shoot amid the soon to be flooded Glen Canyon scenery.
“When they drowned that place, they drowned my whole guts,” she said in an interview in 2010. “And I will never forgive the bastards. May they rot in hell.”
I’m pretty impressed by the efforts of marine biologist Matt Stoecker and his family who have already successfully removed some of these Damned Dangerous Dams to restore wild fish habitats.
“Nothing in my professional career has been more rewarding than witnessing these barriers come down and watching a river, its wildlife and its communities reconnect with each other,” he adds. “[It’s] like going back in time and also seeing a better future.”
Imagine what North America would look like if we hadn’t hat-hunted all the beavers. It’s stunning to consider what the landscape might have been; layered with cascading habitat worked and maintained for centuries – always water where you wanted it and very rarely where you didn’t. Once upon a time there was an entire continent built to lovingly cradle and release water like some kind of giant and wildly maintained beaver-Tivoli.
Leave it to Beavers!!!
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