Lizard People under Los Angeles?

Who Were the 'Lizard People' of Los Angeles?

A 25,000-year old civilization?

(CHICAGO) Nov-12-2010 - Long before Los Angeles existed...long before the Spaniards built missions along the western coastline...and long before any European set eyes upon the Pacific ocean from the western shores of America, the Lizard People roamed the land—both above and below the earth.

Lizard People and the Los Angeles Central Library, (lodestones and UFOs)

The Lizard People built a maze of intricate tunnels deep underground. Their subterranean passageways lay far beneath the earth for thousands of years until the tunnels were accidentally discovered in 1933 by a California engineer named G. Warren Shufelt.

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The engineer had invented an odd device he called a "radio X-ray." While prospecting for precious metals with the instrument he discovered a strange labyrinth of tunnels.

Who were those mysterious people—those Lizard People of the underground realm? The Hopi Indians knew and related legends that provided some clues.

Lizard People under Los Angeles?

Here's a legend I had heard of but didn't know much about until now: City Laid Out Like LizardSo firmly does [a "geophysical mining engineer" named G. Warren Shufelt] believe that a maze of catacombs and priceless golden tablets are to be found beneath downtown Los Angeles that the engineer and his aides have already driven a shaft 250 feet into the ground, the mouth of the shaft behind on the the old Banning property on North Hill Street overlooking Sunset Boulevard, Spring Street and North Broadway.

And so convinced is the engineer of the infallibility of a radio X-ray perfected by him for detecting the presence of minerals and tunnels below the surface of the ground, an apparatus with which he says he has traced a pattern of catacombs and vaults forming the lost city, that he plans to continue sending his shaft downward until he has reached a depth of 1000 feet before discontinuing operations.

Lizard People's Catacomb City Hunted Engineer Sinks Shaft Under Fort Moore Hill to Find Maze of Tunnels and Priceless Treasures of Legendary Inhabitants"I knew I was over a pattern of tunnels," the engineer explained yesterday, "and I had mapped out the course of the tunnels, the position of large rooms scattered along the tunnel route, as well as the position of deposits of gold, but I couldn't understand the meaning of it."

Then Shufelt was taken to Little Chief Greenleaf of the medicine lodge of the Hopi Indians in Arizona, whose English name is L. Macklin. The Indian provided the engineer with a legend which, according to both men, dovetails exactly with what Shufelt says he has found.Did Strange People Liver Under Site of Los Angeles 5000 Years Ago? Comment: I think I read about the Lizard legend in an LA Times article dated 7/22/96 and referenced here: Lizard People Not Yet Found Underneath Los Angeles I think Peter Matthiessen mentioned it in his 1984 book Indian Country also. And some websites noted a Hopi legend about Star Warriors (which believers equated with UFOs, aliens, and lizard people). Hard to imagine that this story went unreported from 1934 to the 1980s and 1990s. Whatever happened to Shufelt and his claims? Did the authorities lock him up in an asylum, or what? FYI, I don't think the traditional Hopi had structures called "lodges," much less "medicine lodges." "Greenleaf" isn't remotely similar to a genuine Hopi name. I've never heard the Hopi use the title "Little Chief." In fact, the tribe didn't have a single chief. People lived in a dozen independent villages with a religious figure akin to a priest leading each one. As for as I know, no independent source exists to verify "Little Chief Greenleaf" and his claims. Shufelt seems to be the only source, which suggests he invented or imagined the Lizard People legend.

City Laid Out Like Lizard

[Image: View larger]. Last week, Josh Williams, formerly of Curbed LA, emailed with an amazing link to an article, reportedly published back in 1934 by the L.A. Times, about a race of "lizard people" who once lived beneath the city. "Did strange people live under site of Los Angeles 5000 years ago?" the article asks, supplying a bizarre treasure map through the city's undersides in the process. [Image: View larger]. Although you can read the article in full through these links, I wanted to give you a taste of the story's strange mix of gonzo archaeology, Poltergeist-like pre-Columbian cultural anxiety, and start-up geophysical investigation squad:

So firmly does [a "geophysical mining engineer" named G. Warren Shufelt] believe that a maze of catacombs and priceless golden tablets are to be found beneath downtown Los Angeles that the engineer and his aides have already driven a shaft 250 feet into the ground, the mouth of the shaft behind on the the old Banning property on North Hill Street overlooking Sunset Boulevard, Spring Street and North Broadway.

And so convinced is the engineer of the infallibility of a radio X-ray perfected by him for detecting the presence of minerals and tunnels below the surface of the ground, an apparatus with which he says he has traced a pattern of catacombs and vaults forming the lost city, that he plans to continue sending his shaft downward until he has reached a depth of 1000 feet before discontinuing operations.

The article goes on to suggest that this ancient subterranean city was "laid out like [a] lizard"; we visit a Hopi "medicine lodge," wherein geophysical secrets are told; there are lost gold hoards; and, all along, the engineer's "radio X-ray" apparatus continues to detect inhabitable voids beneath the metropolis. "I knew I was over a pattern of tunnels," Shufelt is quoted, "and I had mapped out the course of the tunnels, the position of large rooms scattered along the tunnel route, as well as the position of the deposits of gold, but I couldn't understand the meaning of it." Perhaps this is what we'd get if Steven Spielberg hired Mike Mignola to write the next installment of Indiana Jones.