From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Death Valley Mummies
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:33:10 PST
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Subject: Far Out. 
  The first and the last time I saw a copy to the magazine called FAR OUT I 
said to myself that I would never buy it again because of the way they made 
fun of peoople who believed in flying saucers.  This winter issue of 1992 
was no exceptiion to the rule because they started off talking and making a 
lot of fun of Ruth Norman (the lady in El Cajon, Calif who says she is the 
Arch Angel Uriel) and I'll admit I have been guilty of doing the same thing 
myself.  It did seem a little odd that they were telling the essentual truth 
about her but making fun of her. Then they had 3 or more stories that really 
reached out and grabbed me, so I just had to buy the magazine and I'm glad I 
did.
  The first of the three extra stories was about The Mystery of the Lost Dutch 
Oven Gold Mine.  It was about the area around Danby, Calif. between Barstow 
and Needles, Calif. I had spent a lot of time down there looking for an 
underground city. 
    The second story was about Connie Cook Smith, a lady who was contacted by 
the space people from the Pleiades and later she was suddenly able to play 
the keyboard like a professional. 
   The last story was called THE LEGEND OF THE DEATH VALLEY MUMMIES. Now this 
story was not about the same three people who I had heard about before going 
into Death Valley and finding  a previous civilization of people but was 
about one man who came in and found some artifacts and bones of people who 
were over 8 feet tall. 
  Now we go into the story; This particular legend begins sometime in 1946 
when a man calling himself Dr. F. Bruce Russell and claiming to be a retired 
physician and sometimes desert prospector with a home in Beverly Hills, 
struck up a conversation in a Los Angeles watering hole with one Mr. Howard 
E. Hill. Before the evening was over Russell had told Hill quite a story and 
Hill, for his part, was so excited he was ready to invest money, sight 
unseen. 
  Russell's story was that fifteen years earlier, in the fall of 1931, he had 
been sinking a shaft on a mining claim in the Death Valley area when 
suddenly the bottom of the shaft broke through and he found himself quite 
literallly sitting in a large cavern.  In the shadows, he could just make 
out passages running off bothe to his right and left.  
  Upon bringing some light to bear, he could see that the left passage ended 
in what appeared to have been an ancient cave in perhaps 25 yards from where 
his mine shaft had broken through.  The other passage ran off into obscurity 
and this he proceeded to explore. 
  The first thing Russell noticed was that the cavern, while natural, appeared 
to have been physically widened at some points in order to provide easy 
passage-as it had once been an access tunnel for a mine much more ancient 
than his own.
  After decending at a fairly steep angle for perhaps a quarter mile. Russell 
came into a large room from which several tunnels branched off in different 
directions. Here he was  astounded to find evidence of ancient use by 
humans-carvings on the rock, remains of ancient torches which had been 
soaked in a tar like substance, a few large earthen jars which had 
apparently contained the tar, and a variety of animal bones carefully 
stacked against one wall.
  Exploring further, Russell discovered that one of the side passages led to 
yet another large room with severtal tunnels leading off from it as well.  
Here there were mummies, three of them, laid out side-by-side along with a 
variety of artifacts, some of which appeared almost Egyptian while others 
were more typically American Indian in nature.  But while the mummies 
themselves were an amazing find, it was their size which fascinated him 
most. These being were more than eight-feet tall!
  So there you (this is me, JW talking now) have it folks. Is that weird or 
what? Denise who is on this Net also told me about a UFO sighting in Death 
Valley recently where a craft lite up the valley floor for more than 4 
hours. Maybe she will tell us about it.
Source of Information: Winter 1992 issue of FAR OUT  magazine page 45. Article 
written by H. Leo O'Neal. Published quarterly by L.F.P. 9171 Wilshire Blvd. 
Suite 300, Beverly Hills, CA. 90210.
End Part 1.
John Winston.                 
 
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