Underground cities in Cappadocia, Turkey
Then archeologists suspected that the underground cities were created by the Hittites in the second millennium BC. That doesn't get us anywhere. The Hittites built megalithic structures; besides, the same reasons exist as for the persecuted Christians. Any enemy could have starved the people hidden underground. The excavation of these subterranean worlds would have brought mountains of debris and rock to the surface. Once you have crawled through two of these sites, you know that these were not temporary caves. People planned and worked here for over a decade.
Recent explorations have led to new caves. In the meantime, Cappadocia alone is estimated to have up to one hundred subterranean cities. But in Derinkuyu alone, hundreds of thousands of square meters were already drilled and carved out of the rock. The question is, by whom, when, and why?
We realize we have the same old questions and no new answers. If there were a few tunnels cut out of the rock in a limited geographical area, so-called paradolmens, then reasons for their creation could be found, or the local traditions would tell us something about them. But the subterranean world is a global phenomenon, which certainly makes this a global mystery. People went underground or built megalithic shelters in Asia, in South and North America, in Africa, in Europe, on Greek islands like Euboea, or in the Mediterranean like on Malta. The distant Asians knew nothing about the ancestors of the Turks, and the Ecuadorians of South America knew nothing about the Chinese Middle Kingdom. (I've also read about subterranean sites in the Arctic—but I lack the evidence for that.) Global collusion did not exist, but rather a global logic. Something forced people around the world to do the same thing. It has to be about protection. This wasn't protection against attackers; that argument is moot. Were people seeking protection against volcanic eruptions? There are so many of these underground sites that are not near volcanoes. There are volcanoes in Cappadocia, but their lava would have flooded the subterranean worlds, too. Why did the prehistoric Austrians drill kilometers of the Erdställe? Why did the prehistoric Chinese hack huge, multi-story halls from the rocks? What on earth caused the indigenous people of Cappadocia to place a hundred cities under the surface of the earth and connect them by tunnels? Why did Egyptian Pharaohs drive endless shafts under the desert sands of Saqqara? Why were rooms with sarcophagi placed deep under the Great Pyramid—wasn't the pyramid itself monumental and earthquake-proof enough? What was the reason for powerful great dolmens in France and Spain with ceiling plates of up to 300 tons? Why were there dragon houses on Euboea and tunnel systems under the South American Andes? Which motives forced Stone Age people into their underground worlds? What was going on in their heads? What or who commanded: Drill! Drill! Drill!
All reasonable reasons have been considered again and again. Did people fear attacks from space? Did they want to protect themselves from greedy gods? Did they want to shield themselves from those who encircled the Earth in flying machines and demanded treasures such as gold and gems? Such flying machines definitely exist in ancient literature. I recall the Vimanas of ancient India, King Solomon's flying car, the descriptions of the prophet Ezekiel in the Old Testament, the “pearls in the sky” in the Tibetan traditions, or the barques of the gods in Egypt, along with the corresponding representations of the winged sun discs, including the pyramid texts. And yes, much has been written about prehistoric aviation by people in the know.
And yet, the same argument that applies to any exploitative gods who may have behaved like pirates applies to human invaders. “The Celestials” did not have to wait long for the humans underground to surrender. I am not aware of any traditions that report gods blocking tunnel entrances, or about groups of people under the earth who hid themselves from the gods. A great dolmen would have been easily attacked by the flying ones anyway.
After all, people just hid under it.
I suspect our ancestors were afraid of the glowing stones from outer space. They were afraid of those chunks that threatened humans for centuries from the asteroid belt. Shouldn't Earth be riddled with craters? After all, that's the case on neighboring planets and even the smallest moons.
Our planet is dotted with craters like a body dotted with a myriad of pockmarks. There are hundreds of craters. It should be pointed out that two-thirds of the earth's surface consists of water so the impacts are not visible right away. The same applies to craters that today lie under cultivated land or ancient forests. In addition, volcanic craters must be distinguished from impact craters. Finally, the Earth's atmosphere protects the planet, at least from smaller meteorites. They simply burn up. What remains are hundreds of craters caused by larger meteorites. Have you never heard of them? Here is a small excerpt from a list on Wikipedia:53
Amguid crater in Algeria
Brent crater in Ontario, Canada
Campo del Cielocraters (total of 10) in Argentina
Carancas crater in Peru
Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico
Chukcha crater in Siberia, Russia
Colonia crater in Brazil
Flaxman crater in Australia
Flynn Creek crater in Tennessee, USA
GweniFada crater in Chad, Africa
Haviland crater in Kansas, USA
Henbury craters (total of 13) Northern Territory, Australia
Hummeln crater in Sweden
Jabal Waqf es Suwwan crater in Jordania
Kaali craters (total of 8) in Estonia
Kalkkop crater in South Africa
Kamil crater in Egypt
Kärdla crater in Estonia
Lappajärvi crater in Finland
Luizi crater in Congo, Africa
Macha craters (total of 5) in Yakutia, Russia
Manson crater in Iowa, USA
Morasko craters (total of 8) in Poland
Nördlinger Ries crater in Germany
Odessa craters (total of 5) in Texas, USA
Ouarkziz crater in Algeria, Africa
Red Wing crater in North Dakota, USA
Riachao Ring crater in Maranhão, Brazil
Rio Cuarto craters (total of 12) in Córdoba, Argentina
Rochechouart crater in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Roter Kamm crater in Namibia
Shunak crater in Kazakhstan
Sikhote-Alin craters (total of 38) in Primorje, Russia
Siljan crater in Sweden
Steinheimer Becken crater in Germany
Tabun Khara Obo crater in Mongolia
Talemzane crater in Algeria
Vepriai crater in Lithuania
Vredefort crater in South Africa
Wabar craters (total of 4) in Saudi Arabia
Whitecourt crater in Alberta, Canada
Wolfe Creek crater in Australia
Xiuyan crater in Liaoning, China
Wikipedia alone lists a few hundred impact craters. Then there are the unrecorded craters under water, under the dunes of glowing-hot deserts, and those over-grown with jungles. Our blue planet was as much a victim of meteorite impacts as the other celestial bodies of the solar system. Why does it not hail meteorites these days?
The planets in the solar system have settled down. The chaos from the asteroid belt has abated. Anything that did not crash into the other planets and moons, and especially into the giant planet Jupiter, now follows an established orbit, bar the exceptions already mentioned. But at the time when shelters were being dug worldwide, showers of glowing stones must often have fallen from the sky. The crater list proves it. Again and again geologists discovered several impact craters in concentrated areas. For example, thirteen of them in the Northern Territory of Australia, eight in Estonia, and thirty-eight in the Primorsky Krai region in Russia. The barrage came from outer space and was caused by the explosion of a planet. The remnants of it form the asteroid belt and this can be proved.
Here and there, one finds vitrified sands and stones on Earth that cannot be explained by any natural heat. In the southwestern Sahara near the Saad Plateau, one ca
n occasionally find yellow-greenish glass, also called Libyan desert glass. In July 1999, the British science magazine New Scientist wrote that so far, a thousand tons of mysterious material had been discovered, the largest chunk of which weighed 26 kilograms. Initially, it was thought that the material came from a meteorite, but there was no sign of a meteorite, let alone a crater. Even the hot gases of a celestial body that might have touched the area without striking the earth did not solve the mystery. If that were true, the locations of the desert glass should have more or less followed the trajectory, but they did not do that. The material was in an oval form, from east to west, covering an area of 130 × 53 kilometers in the sand of the Libyan desert. The glass consists of 97 percent silicon and looks like a yellow-green gemstone. In an analysis published in the scientific journal Nature, Dr. Spencer writes: “It's easier to assume that the stuff has fallen from the sky.”54
Vitrification was also discovered in Death Valley, California. There are the remains of former settlements. “The whole region between the Gila and San Juan rivers is covered with remains of cities with traces of melted material. Buildings and objects must have been exposed to temperatures high enough to liquify rocks and metal. . . . One gets the impression a gigantic fire-plough had rolled over the area.” Viktor Farkas (1945–2011), a very thorough Austrian journalist, quoted a colleague of Captain Walker in the magazine Sagenhafte Zeiten (Legendary Times).55 There he also mentioned a tower in the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon, 90 kilometers south of Baghdad, which looks as if “it had been slashed in two by a sword of flames . . . Many parts of the building have been turned into glass, some are completely melted. The ruin looks like a burnt mountain.”
Even in Europe, the phenomenon of vitrified walls exists. This is so on the hill Tap o' Noth in Scottish Aberdeenshire in the hinterland of the city of Aberdeen. The top of the hill is the size of a football field and is surrounded by vitrified, fused rocks in several places. An explanation for the mystery does not exist. Just as is the case with the vitrified stones in the desert of Lop Nor in the Chinese province Xinjiang.
Other vitrifications exist in the southeast of the Gobi Desert, in the Indus Valley at Mohenjo Daro, and at Sete Cidades in the Brazilian state of Piaui. Tourists can observe such rock vitrifications above the city of Cuzco in Peru. There, on the plateau on which the famous Inca wall Sacsayhuaman stands, lie blocks of rock, sometimes turned upside down, with clearly visible rock vitrifications. This is called Kenko Grande. The German engineer Dr. Friedrich Bude, owner of numerous patents and a specialist in thermodynamic processes, who investigated the traces of melted material above Cuzco, wrote to me that temperatures of up to 15,000 degrees Celsius must have been released over a short period of time.56
Kenko Grande in Cuzco, Peru—the stone appears to have been melted.
What happened here millennia ago? Humans did not produce 15,000 degrees Celsius. Or did they? After all, there was once a Bronze and later an Iron Age that followed the Stone Age. In order to release the metals from the rock, our ancestors needed high temperatures. As far as the term Stone Age is concerned, it does not apply globally to a specified period of time. Depending on the culture, it ended five or even two millennia before Christ—but today, Stone Age people still live on the upper Amazon. At some point a wide-awake ancestor noticed that from the chunks that had fallen into fire, something strange dripped down and froze after cooling. The oldest alloy of tin bronze was found at the excavation site Pločnik in present-day Serbia and dated around 4600 BC. Tin, on the other hand, is a chemical element; a silvery, heavy metal, and at the same time so soft that it can be scratched with a fingernail. Bronze consists of a mixture of tin and copper. Copper is a heavy metal that occurs in nature. Historically, the scientists distinguish between Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. The starting point of the Bronze Age is considered to be 3300 BC in the regions of the Near East. It was not until about a thousand years later that people invented the production of iron, and in ancient Europe, the iron smelt was not well known before 600 BC. Like tin, iron is a chemical element. However, unlike other elements, it is not a final product of various alloys. Iron is found in iron ore, but also came to Earth with meteorites. And so we end up with the temperatures necessary to extract iron from the ore.
Today, this happens in blast furnaces. There, iron is melted from the iron ore. Such a blast furnace generates a heat of about 2,000 degrees Celsius.
That would be far too little to melt entire rock massifs, as can be seen above the city of Cuzco in Peru and elsewhere.
Regardless, there was no blast furnace anywhere in that mysterious Stone Age anyway.
And let's not forget Sodom and Gomorrah. In the first book of Moses, Chapter 19, beginning with Verse 24, the annihilation of sinful places is described as follows:
Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground . . . Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
This extermination had nothing to do with a volcanic eruption or the explosion of an imaginary blast furnace (“. . . like smoke from a furnace . . .”), or with a desert storm, or with apocalyptic visions or dreams of an epileptic, but it clearly had to do with a purposeful destruction from outer space. A gruesome weapon had to be used. I have referred to this in earlier books and more recently my opinion has been affirmed by the theologian Dr. Mauro Biglino, who is able to translate the original texts.57
The people who crawled under dolmens, scraped miles of corridors out of the rocks, and even built underground cities for hundreds of thousands of their fellow men and women were not afraid of other people, volcanic eruptions, heat storms, or even non-existent blast furnaces—they were hiding from glowing rock bombs from space. It's understandable that this happened independently in cultures worldwide.
CHAPTER 4
Skeletons—Not from This World
WITH THE FOLLOWING REVELATIONS I will garner a lot of vitriol, but I can handle it. Smart alecks will refer to the whole thing as fake, and others will try to “unmask” it as a fraud. The following by experts will be refuted with “counter-assessments” by experts, and the “reasonable people” will break out in a hysterical panic in the event of any UFO case and accuse me of credulity. The know-it-alls of all stripes, who have never been able to accept the unpopular facts outside their restricted thinking patterns, will cry out loud. The carousel of pseudo-reason will be set in motion like a poison spinner. And I don't care. I'm sure of the facts, and I am familiar with the counterarguments. In the long term, it will not be possible to obscure the view of an eerie reality.
On May 6, 2017, I received an email from a well-known and very reasonable lady from Luxembourg. She wrote that a certain Mr. Thierry Jamin from Cusco, Peru, would like to contact me. It had to do with extraterrestrial mummies found in the area of Nazca, Peru. She asked me to treat the information very confidentially. The lady also sent me a black-and-white picture and excerpts from an email in French written by Mr. Thierry Jamin. Here is the translation:
Could you contact him (Erich von Däniken) and tell Egyptologist him we found several alien bodies? And they are from the group of the “little grey ones.” This is at a secret archaeological site near Nazca, just a few hundred meters from an “earth track.” I personally saw one of these mummies today. It's incredible! The group that made the discovery is asking for $100,000 (USD), but I am confident that it will be satisfied with $80,000. Perhaps Mr von Däniken knows somebody in the world who makes it possible to secure these finds. The whole thing is really unique! It would be wonderful if Erich von Däniken would contact me . . . The tomb robber named “Mario” gave me one week . . .
My acquaintance in Luxembourg ad
ded that it was a “very hot topic” and she thought that we were very close to finding evidence for the aliens.
Did she mean alien mummies? Was this on Earth? This must be a case for the psychiatrist! Any normal person would start laughing immediately. I am not a normal person. I work with information that ordinary people do not deal with, and I have been referenced in forty-one books so far. So I know that the Belgian Padre Gustavo Le Paige (1903–1980), who worked as an archaeologist in Chile and whose name was given to a large museum in the Chilean city of San Pedro de Atacama, had seen extraterrestrial mummies, “You would not believe if I told you what else I found in the tombs,” Padre Le Paige had told a journalist. I am as familiar with the reports of alien visitors as I am with the ancient texts. That is why the news of “alien mummies on Earth” did not compel me to break out in a hysterical laugh.
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