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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:06:14 -0700
To: updates@globalserve.net
From: Bob Tidwell 
Subject: PHENOMENON - Issue 6 - Part 2


     PHENOMENON
     E-Mail Newsletter             A Forum for the
     # 6 - Part 2               Strangeness Around us
     April 18, 1998


                   ~~~ Part 2 ~~~
               *** Editor's Notes for Part 2
               *** The PHOENIX GAZETTE Article
               *** The Structures on Mars
               *** Newsletter Guidelines



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              Editor's Notes for Part 2
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Similar stories of unknown archeological sites have appeared over
the years here in the U.S.
In 1946 a man calling himself Dr. F. Bruce Russell, and claiming
to be a retired physician, told a similar story about finding
strange underground rooms in the Death Valley area in 1931.
He told of a large room with several tunnels leading off in
different directions. One of these tunnels led to another large
room that contained three mummies. Artifacts found in the room
appeared to be a combination of Egyptian and American Indian
design. The most amazing thing about the mummies though was the
fact that they were more than eight feet tall.
Dr. Russell and a group of investors formed "Amazing
Explorations, Inc" to handle the release, and profit, from this
remarkable find. But, as stories of this type usually go, Russell
disappeared, and the investigators were never able to find the
caverns and tunnels again, even though Russell had personally
taken them there. The desert can be very deceiving to anyone not
used to traveling it. Month's later, Russell's car was found
abandoned, with a burst radiator, in a remote area of Death
Valley. His suitcase was still in the car.
The old TV series Death Valley Days once ran a short story about
western pioneers also finding mummies in the desert. Since one of
the script writers stated that "there had never been a script
without a solid basis in fact", it would be interesting to find
out what their source had been.
For now, these stories will have to be shrouded in mystery, along
with the 21,000 year old bones found in California's Imperial
Valley, also rumored to have been spirited off by the
Smithsonian.
Next up is the 1909 PHOENIX GAZETTE article mentioned in part 1,
and then we'll take a look at how all of this relates to the
"face on Mars."



    THE PHOENIX GAZETTE
      April 5th, 1909
   EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON
  Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern being brought to light
  Jordan is enthused
  Remarkable finds indicate ancient people migrated from Orient
The latest news of the progress of the explorations of what is
now regarded by scientists as not only the oldest archeological
discovery in the United States, but one of the most valuable in
the world, which was mentioned some time ago in the Gazette, was
brought to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the explorer who
found the great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a
trip from Green River, Wyoming, down the Colorado, in a wooden
boat, to Yuma, several months ago.
According to the story related to the Gazette by Mr. Kinkaid, the
archaelogists of the Smithsonian Institute, which is financing
the expeditions, have made discoveries which almost conclusively
prove that the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn
in solid rock by human hands, was of oriental origin, possibly
from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. If their theories are borne
out by the translation of the tablets engraved with
heiroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric peoples of North
America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came,
will be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the Colorado
will be linked by a historical chain running back to ages which
staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist.
     A Thorough Examination
Under the direction of Prof. S. A. Jordan, the Smithsonian
Institute is now prosecuting the most thorough explorations,
which will be continued until the last link in the chain is
forged. Nearly a mile underground, about 1480 feet below the
surface, the long main passage has been delved into, to find
another mammoth chamber from which radiates scores of
passageways, like the spokes of a wheel.
Several hundred rooms have been discovered, reached by
passageways running from the main passage, one of them having
been explored for 854 feet and another 634 feet. The recent finds
include articles which have never been known as native to this
country, and doubtless they had their origin in the orient. War
weapons, copper instruments, sharp-edged and hard as steel,
indicate the high state of civilization reached by these strange
people. So interested have the scientists become that
preparations are being made to equip the camp for extensive
studies, and the force will be increased to thirty or forty
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