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soliciting members in such small-circulation
hollow-earth publications as Shavertron and
The Hollow Hassle.
Marcoux and his wife moved to Cushman
in 1983. There, in November, as he was visiting
the land around the cave, a swarm of bees
descended on him. The resulting shock and
trauma precipitated a heart attack, and he
died on the spot.
Some hollow-earth enthusiasts speculated
that sinister forces that wanted to keep the
caves a secret had caused the attack. Others
saw it as just a tragic accident. In any case,
Marcoux’s death ended efforts to explore
Blowing Cave in search of underearthers.
See Also: Hollow earth; Shaver mystery
Further Reading
To ronto, Richard, n.d. “The Sh a ver My s t e ry.” http://
w w w. p a r a s c o p e . c o m / n b / a rt i c l e s / s h a ve r / My s t e ry.
htm.
Untitled, n.d. http://www.rcbbs.com/docs/empire7.
txt.
Bonnie
In 1977, William Hamilton, a California man
interested in UFOs, met “a young, very pretty
blond girl with almond-shaped eyes and perfect
small teeth.” Bonnie, whom Hamilton
judged sincere and sane, told him she was
born in 1951 in the Lemurian city of Telos,
located inside an artificial domelike cavern a
mile beneath Mount Shasta on California’s
northern border.
Bonnie told him that she, her parents, her
two sisters, and her two cousins move freely
back and forth between our society and their
native city. They also travel to other subterranean
Lemurian and Atlantean cities, via a
tube transit train system that travels as fast as
2,500 miles per hour. The Lemurians are also
able to fly into outer space in saucerlike vehicles,
and they interact with visiting extraterrestrials.
Telos has a population of one and a
half million who live a communal existence
without money. She warned Hamilton that by
the end of the century, Earth’s axis will shift.
The result will be massive devastation and
huge loss of life. On the other side of this ter-
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rible event, human beings would come
together as one and fashion a utopian society
“on a higher plane of vibrations” (Beckley,
1993).
In Bonnie’s account the Lemurians came to
Earth two hundred thousand years ago from
the planet Aurora. Atlantis (in the Atlantic)
and Lemuria (in the Pacific) fought a war
against each other twenty-five thousand years
ago, but it was a natural catastrophe that
brought Lemuria to the ocean bottom ten
thousand years later. Atlantis was destroyed a
few centuries later when Atlantean scientists
conducted irresponsible experiments with
cosmic, energy-generating “fire crystals.”
See Also: Atlantis; Lemuria; Mount Shasta
Further Reading
Beckley, Timothy Green, ed., 1993. The Smoky God
and Other Inner Earth Mysteries. New Brunswick,
NJ: Inner Light Publications.
Boys from Topside
Wilbert B. Smith (1910–1962), an engineer
who worked for Canada’s Department of
Transport (DOT), believed himself to be in
contact with philosophically and scientifically
inclined extraterrestrials. He called them the
“Boys from Topside.”
It is unclear when these psychic messages
began, but it could have been as early as 1950.
Smith was at first circumspect about them,
though he was willing to acknowledge an interest
in UFO investigation. In late 1950, he
secured access to use DOT laboratory and
field facilities during off-hours in an effort to
gather technical data about UFO sightings.
(According to one source, Smith was acting
under the guidance of space people all the
while, though he said nothing about them to
his superiors.) Smith hoped for a breakthrough
sufficient to overthrow conventional
technology and put in its place a wholly new
one. He called his work “Project Magnet,” reflecting
his conviction that flying saucers flew
along magnetic fields. In 1952 Smith participated
in a small UFO study group put
together by the Canadian government’s De-