From time to time, enthusiasts for the study of unusual phenomena report the discovery of mysterious underground rooms and tunnels.
Ufologists unambiguously interpret them as underground UFO bases, and official science recognizes only those of them in which real scientific research was carried out (like the underground city of Derinkuyu in Turkey).
However, there is nothing to blame official science. Many of the sensational claims about tunnels and dungeons have remained without factual support.
For example, the famous in the UFO environment "Burroughs Cave", which allegedly contains mysterious artifacts of an unknown civilization: drawings similar to which are found in the Egyptian pyramids, as well as gold bars depicting ancient gods. The discovery of this cave was announced in 1982 by speleologist Russell Burroughs, but he still hides the exact coordinates of its location, allegedly fearing for the safety of valuable artifacts.
A similar situation has arisen around the cave labyrinths and tunnels discovered in Ecuador by Janusz Juan Moritz. However, first things first.
Tunnels of South America
Peru
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The famous researcher of the Inca civilization, Dr. Raul Rios Centeno, discovered in the library of a local university a report on the disaster of 1952, which befell a group of scientists from France and the United States. They disappeared in the mysterious tunnels of the underground city of Aa Chikana in the Andes, in the vicinity of Cuzco. Only one man got out with an ear of pure gold corn.
Centeno managed to penetrate underground tunnels two kilometers from the entrance walled up after this event. There he found a tunnel, the walls of which were covered with metal tiles. No instrument took the surface of the slabs. According to legend, the tunnels stretch right up to Bolivia.
In 1971, cavers discovered in the Nazca area, at a depth of about 100 meters, a huge hall, the floor of which was paved with stone blocks with a special relief, and strange hieroglyphs were painted in abundance on the polished walls. Tunnels diverged from Hall 288 in different directions. Some of them went under the ocean floor.
Ecuador
A whole system of glazed underground tunnels was discovered by Argentine entrepreneur, ethnologist and collector Janusz Moritz in 1965 in Ecuador thanks to the stories of local Indians. The walls of the tunnels were smooth and polished, and the ceilings were flat and even, as if covered with glaze.
Passage roads led to vast underground halls. In them, Moritz discovered many figurines made of gold, and an ancient library, which consisted of thousands of books made of thin metal plates covered with strange symbols that could not be deciphered.
In the center of the library are objects resembling a table and chairs, but the material from which they are made is not known. This is not stone, wood or metal, but most likely something similar to ceramics or modern composite materials. Many interesting drawings were found on the floors of the tunnels.
Moritz told about the discovery to the government of Ecuador, but where exactly is the entrance to the labyrinth, Moritz kept a secret. Later, Moritz invited the Swiss explorer Erich von Daniken, the author of the famous film "Memories of the Future", so that he could personally examine the finds. In 1973, Daniken's book “The Gold of the Gods” was published, in which he describes in detail the cave and the treasures of the library. Before the publication of the book, Moritz showed the author one of the entrances to the cave, but this was not the entrance to the library.
One of the artifacts from the Moritz tunnels
Moritz wanted the writer to glorify this place and hidden treasures to the whole world. But everything turned out the other way around: after the publication of the book, Daniken was accused of a scientific hoax. In an interview with reporters, Moritz flatly denied that he had ever been in a cave with Daniken.
This undermined the credibility of von Daniken, and his reputation was branded as a liar. So one of the most sensational discoveries was soon forgotten, and there was no daredevil who, after recognizing the history as a hoax, would again start looking for a metal library.
Juan Moritz died in 1991. After that, research teams in 1991 and 1995 tried to find mysterious caves. They managed to find an underground tunnel with an unusual "door", but the tunnel eventually went under water. And in 1998, the Peruvian expedition discovered a collapse in the underground labyrinth that blocked the road to the dungeon corridors.
North America
Mexico
The famous Sotano de las Golondrinas (Swallow Cave) is unique. Its depth is more than a kilometer, and its width is several hundred meters. The walls of the cave are absolutely flat and smooth.
At the bottom are labyrinths of rooms, passages and tunnels. The latter go in different directions. The bottom of the cave and passages to deeper levels, which probably exist, are still poorly explored.
USA, California
In the Los Angeles TV show "More Than Real Creatures" by J. Schlatter, a glazed tunnel under Mont Chester was shown. Locals claim that some "telepathic beings" live in it.
USA, Colorado
The head of the Center for Underground Research at Princeton University cited sensational facts in his 1998 report. Scientists have discovered in the Colorado Desert, at a depth of about 2.5 kilometers, an object reflecting a signal, moving at a speed of at least 200 km / h. This was repeated several times. The intercepted radio signals turned out to be encoded. In this place, UFOs appeared from under the Earth.
Canada
Once another nuclear test in the state of Nevada (USA) led to unexpected consequences. A couple of hours after the underground explosion, the level of radiation suddenly rose sharply at a military base in Canada, 2,000 kilometers from the test site.
The Geiger counter showed a twenty-fold excess of the radiation norm. Surveys of the area revealed a vast cave near the base, the passages from which run southward.
Europe
According to Jacques Vallee, a number of underground civilizations at one time mastered vast underground territories, including hard-to-reach places in Ireland (in the Wicklow Mountains, near Dublin), Iceland, France, Italy, Switzerland.
Under Europe there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of underground tunnels, the origin of which remains a mystery. This type of tunnel is called "erdstall" and is very narrow. 1 to 1.2 m in height and about 60 cm in width.
There are also connecting tunnels that are even smaller and are unlikely to be passed through by an adult or overweight person. Some tunnel systems are rings, most tunnels in such systems are less than 50 m long.
The tunnels are roughly dated back to the early Middle Ages. Since no historical artifacts have been found in the tunnels, it is difficult to determine the exact age. For the same reason, it is unlikely that these tunnels were ever used as hiding places or as housing. Although this possibility cannot be completely ruled out.
The most widespread theory is that these are structures of religious significance, and that they may have belonged to some kind of non-Christian cult.
At least 700 of these tunnels have been found in Bavaria alone, and about 500 in Austria. They have fancy names among the people, such as "Schrazelloch" ("hole of the goblins") or "Alraunenhöhle" ("mandrake cave"). Some sagas say that they were part of the long tunnels connecting the castles.
Poland
Ufologist Jan Paenk testifies: “I heard the story of the glazed tunnels near Babia Gora from a later deceased friend who had visited them with my father. It became known from my father that only a select few know about them."
Mount Babya Gora has always attracted brave men and thrill-seekers. Some really strange things are happening in this place. Many daredevils who dared to climb to the top were later found dead in the forest. The most common cause of death is suicide, although some deaths cannot be explained in terms of medicine and science. Some have never been found. Neither alive nor dead.
Many tourists who managed to return from Babya Gora unanimously assert about the mysterious creatures that came across them on the way. Eyewitnesses say that they constantly feel someone's presence behind their backs, however, when they turn around, they see no one.
In 1963, a helicopter crashed over Babia Gora. The pilot and passengers were killed. The weather that day was fine and there was no sign of trouble. The cause of the accident was never established. In 2013, a private plane crashed in the immediate vicinity of Babya Gora. Three people were killed.
Russia, Krasnodar Territory
Under Gelendzhik, a "bottomless" vertical mine was allegedly discovered, in which people, including researchers, disappeared many times. In it, the clock runs forward for a minute in an hour. The walls of the mine were made according to an unknown technology: “the soil microstructure was disturbed by thermal and mechanical impact by only 1-1.5 millimeters”, and “no glue was found”.
Africa, Sahara
The English writer John Willard, in his book "The Lost Worlds of Africa", described a system of tunnels laid under the Sahara different from that known in Persia. The main ones were 4.5 by 5 meters in diameter. They discovered 250 tunnels, with a total length of about 2000 kilometers.
Asia
Georgia
One of the founders of the esoteric society of Georgia Givi A. Pireli wrote about the cities in the underground. He cited several evidences that in the Caucasus there may be an entrance to the gigapolity. Jacques Bergier and Aui Povel write in the book "Morning of the Magicians" that Hitler was eager to go to the Caucasus not only because of oil. He was going to penetrate the secrets of the Caucasian dungeons.
Turkey
In 1963, in the province of Anatol, in the town of Derinkuyu, an underground city was opened in 13 tiers, with transitions for tens of kilometers, and 1175 air shafts provided fresh air. The city was built in the II - I millennium BC.
It is striking that there are no signs of excavated soil and rock dumps around. It seems that the passages and tunnels were burned out by the most powerful lasers in the rock.
Paleovisitologists believe that the underground city near Derinkuyu was built by extraterrestrial beings as a shelter from some colossal cataclysm.
India, Himalayas
Nicholas Roerich testifies: "There are many caves on the slopes of the mountains, from which underground passages go, passing under Kapchenjunga."
China, Tibet
N. Roerich: "Inside the Kun-Aun mountain range there is a huge crypt with high arches, which is guarded by mysterious" gray "people."
Russia Siberia
Ivan Evseevich Koltsov, a dowser "from God", who once worked in a secret bureau under the USSR Council of Ministers, where they searched for ancient underground structures in Moscow and the Moscow region, claims that a very ancient tunnel crosses the Tara-Irtysh interfluve from west to east. Later this information was confirmed by a number of psychics. And at the beginning of the XXI century, this was confirmed by special seismographs.
Australia
Jan Paenk, a New Zealand ufologist of Polish origin, testifies: “I came across Cocklebiddy Cave, in the Nullarbor Plain, South Australia, on a tunnel largely flooded with water. By the mid-1990s, a little more than 6 kilometers were surveyed."
Jan Paenk claims that a whole network of tunnels has been laid underground that lead to any country. These tunnels are created using high technology, unknown to people, and pass not only under the surface of the land, but also under the bed of the seas and oceans.
The tunnels are not just pierced, but as if they were burnt out in underground rocks, and their walls are a frozen melt of rocks - smooth as glass and have an extraordinary strength. Jan Paenk met with miners who came across such tunnels while driving Shreks.
According to the Polish scientist and many other researchers, flying saucers rush along these underground communications from one end of the world to the other.
Oceania, New Zealand
In this region (in New Zealand) J. Paenk also conducted an investigation. According to the myth, under the southern part of the country, the deserted Fiordland, there is an underground city inhabited by "creatures from the fog". It is allegedly connected by tunnels with similar cities in other parts of the world.
The myth is confirmed from time to time by encounters with these creatures. The last such case was reported on October 16, 1991 on New Zealand television. The entrance to one of the tunnels was opened by the gold digger Allan Planck. The existence of other tunnels on the Fiordland border was confirmed by a miner working at the Clyde dam. While driving the drifts under the dam, they came across two glazed tunnels. But they were immediately ordered to concrete them.
We did not aim to list all the little-known tunnels, there are a lot of them. Only some evidence of the tunnels is given, showing their existence on all continents.
According to Samuel Kern, a member of the American Geological Society, "only a tiny fraction of all existing underground caves have been described and mapped." And Dr. F. Ossendovsky writes that the Mongolian lama told him about the vast network of tunnels and about the means of transportation in them.
The article partially uses materials from the book "Underwater UFOs" by V. Azhazh