Level 1: Shun Akiba
Shun
Akiba, once one of Japan’s more respected journalists, now finds
himself on some kind of invisible blacklist. His book - ''Teito Tokyo
Kakusareta Chikamono Himitsu'' - Imperial City Tokyo : Secret of a
Hidden Underground Network, published in 2002 is the reason.
Shun
claims to have evidence of a network of tunnels and possibly an
underground city beneath Tokyo that the public is totally unaware of. It
all began when Shun compared an old, discarded map of the Japanese
underground system with a current map and found a discrepancy in the
direction of two tunnels. He set out to find out the reason and realized
this inconsistency is just the first of many differences he unearthed.
The
bulk of Shun's book covers the development of the subway system and
questions the many inconsistencies between maps of the past and
present--even those that were contemporaneous. According to Shun, ''Even
Allowing for errors, there are too many oddities.''
''Every
city with a historic subterranean transport system has secrets.'' He
says. ''In London, for example, some lines are near the surface and
others very deep, for no obvious reason. Tokyo is said to have 12
subways and 250 km of tunneling. I'd say that last figure is closer to
2,000 km.''
Whether
these omissions and irregularities are because of military, transit or
other issues, no one is saying and Shun continues to search for clues.
Level 2: Strange Theories, Stranger Encounters
Richard
Shaver isn’t the only person to claim they have proof of underground
cities and beings. People far more respected have made similar claims
as well, including: Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, 17th century English
astronomer Edmund Halley and others wrote about how planet Earth is a
hollow sphere.
American authorities had prepared a special scientific mission in 18th and 19th centuries to explore the Earth's hollow depth.
The
Nazis were very interested in the mysterious underground world. A top
secret expedition was organized in 1942. Unfortunately, the outcome of
the intrigue is not known.
In
1963, two American coal miners found a large door in a tunnel, behind
which they discovered a marble stairway. An English miner claims that he
found a stairway to an underground well. A sound of machines became
distinct from behind the well the closer he got, and he fled in fear.
When he returned to the tunnel, there were no stairs and no entrance to
the well.
In
the late 1970’s, an American satellite took very interesting
photographs depicting a dark, regularly shaped spot on the North Pole.
Similar pictures depicting the same dark spot on the pole were taken
several years later.
During
the exploration of a cave in Idaho. Anthropologist James McKenna and
other members of the expedition could hear screams as they were moving
hundreds meters deep into the cave. As they continued to explore, the
researchers found human skeletons but they had to stop their quest: the
smell of brimstone was unbearable.
Level 3: The Shaver Theory
Few
people today remember Richard Shaver. In the late forties, though,
Shaver created a stir with a story printed in Amazing Stories magazine.
He claimed our world was honeycombed with huge underground caverns built
long ago by aliens from another galaxy. When these beings fled to
escape the radiation of our aging sun, their castoffs degenerated into
evil dwarves Shaver called ''dero'' short for detrimental robots.
These
Dero still lived in the cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping
surface-dwelling people for meat and using the fantastic ''ray''machines
that the great ancient races left behind to project tormenting thoughts
and voices into our minds. Shaver insisted he'd visited these primeval
caverns, and poured forth his exploits and assertions in a stream of
stories and articles. Between 1945 and 1949, letters poured in attesting
to the truth of Shaver's claims (tens of thousands of letters,
according to Amazing Stories editor Ray Palmer) : the correspondents,
too, had heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the hollow
Earth. But many in the community of science fiction fans publicly
condemn the Shaver Mystery as ''the Shaver Hoax.''
