In "The Shaver Mystery and Inner Earth," author Timothy Green Beckley has collected many stories from a vast wealth of sources on the subject of what is often called "The Inner Earth Theory," which holds that the earth does not consist of molten metal at its core, as modern science tells us, but is instead quite hollow inside, and supports several different races of sentient beings as well as their impressive underground cities. Those cities are said to be linked to one another by underground tunnels with above-ground openings that the occasional surface-dwelling mortal stumbles on to. Much of the information Beckley presents comes from a man named Richard Shaver, a spot welder on the Detroit automobile assembly lines, who one day began to hear strange voices projected at him as he went about his work. Following the trail that began with that unearthly auditory experience, Shaver eventually came to the conclusion that the voices were coming from somewhere beneath the surface, from a race of creatures he came to call the "Deros," which is short for "degenerate robots." The Deros have a story of their own. They were once a gentle race who lived on the surface of the Earth, until it became apparent that the sun was being transformed in some way that caused an increase in the amount of a form of dangerous radiation contained in its rays. Some of the Deros escaped the planet by going into space in their highly-developed spacecraft, but not all of them managed to do so. Those forced to remain went underground and built the cities referred to above, but the sun's poisonous radiation also caused them to go insane and to develop cruel and sadistic personality traits. It is because of their evil madness that mankind suffers so much today, and Shaver himself experienced some bizarre mistreatments as he sought to learn more about the mysterious Deros. Shaver eventually published many of his Dero tales in a magazine called "Amazing Stories," which were so popular that they greatly increased the magazine's circulation. But Shaver's story of the Deros is only one of many versions of exactly what is down there in the Hollow Earth. Beckley also offers stories by journalist John J. Robinson and others whose research has turned up different legends and personal experiences, some of which tell of a hidden paradise below our feet where beautiful, spiritually benevolent creatures reside. Beckley's use of numerous and divergent reports helps to paint a wonderfully complete picture of the centuries of folklore that have become mingled with scientific fact through real-world investigations into the "Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth." Some of what's here stretches credibility a little more than might be totally comfortable. But if you have an appetite for unsolved mysteries that extend beyond the realm of the safe and the knowable, then Beckley's thorough overview of what may be inside the Hollow Earth is well worth the time spent reading it.

Though Records from the Past Tell the Ancient Story of Lemuria which Some Call Mu or Pan

1985 Content: the Shaver Mystery; My Story; Questions & Answers; Green Children of Wulfpeters; Cavern Monsters Come a Calling; the Little People; Atlanteans from the Inner Earth; Legends of the West; Rainbow City; the Hollow Hills; Pre-Deluge.

SINCE 1943 THE COMPLETE REALITIES OF THE SHAVER AND OTHER INNER EARTH MYSTERIES HAVE BEEN WITHHELD. . . NOW HERE IS THE WHOLE TRUTH AT LAST -- AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH IN THIS REPRINT OF A RARE COLLECTION . . . What is the Shaver Mystery?. . . Here Is A Mystery That Stretches From The Madhouse To The White House; From the Moronic To THe World's Greatest Minds; From the Superstition To Scientific Knowledge; From The Forgotten Past To The Present Instant!. . .Here is the very FIRST VOLUME in a continuing series originally released by publisher Ray Palmer in the 1960s. Serious collectors have paid as much as $100 per volume, or $900 for the entire set. We will be reissuing the entire series at a far lesser cost for serious students of the Shaver, Inner Earth, and Hollow Earth Mysteries! . . .In Volume One, you will read about the beginning of the Shaver Mystery and how it attracted thousands of fans who first read about it in the science fiction magazine AMAZING STORIES (circa 1943) even though Richard Shaver and editor Ray Palmer said the things claimed in this work were for REAL!. . .Shavers hears the tormented voices coming from below. . . Readers question his sanity when he describes entering the caves of the ancients. . .Shaver describes in detail the plunder of our planet by extraterrestrials in ancient times; and the lost continents of Lemuria and Atlantis. . .Shaver "proves" his case by revealing an ancient alphabet he calls "Mantong." . . . Captured by the Dero from ancient races, the stem and mech machines cause utter chaos on surface dwellers, wars, murder and horrific accidents are also created by the evil underground dwellers.

A classic, yet controversial science fiction novel from 1947, "The Shaver Mystery, Book One" by Richard S. Shaver

This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).

A discussion of the theories of Richard S. Shaver, who claimed that he could hear voices and see visual projections of an ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in the caverns under the earth. According to Shaver's theory, when the earth was still very young, it had been visited by an advanced race of beings, called the "Elder Gods," who originated from another solar system; the Elders created vast cities and tunnels underground. Later, most of the Elders left the Earth for another planet. Over a period of centuries, those who were left behind in the underground caverns deteriorated physically and mentally from the radioactivity of the sun, turning into insane cave dwellers that Shaver called "Deros." Shaver's ideas originally appeared in science fiction magazines such as Amazing Stories, but Shaver later claimed that the stories, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true.

Life magazine described the Shaver Mystery as "the most celebrated rumpus that rocked the science fiction world." Its creators said it was a "new wave in science fiction." Critics called it "dangerous nonsense" and labeled its fans the lunatic fringe. Whatever else the Shaver Mystery was, it became a worldwide sensation between 1945 and 1948, one of the greatest controversies to hit the science fiction genre. Today these stories of the remnants of a sinister ancient civilization living in caverns under the Earth are an all but forgotten sidebar to the historical record. The Shaver Mystery began as a series of science fiction yarns in Amazing Stories nearly 70 years ago. The men behind it, Ray Palmer and Richard Shaver, were derided and seldom understood by a fandom that did its best to sweep them under the carpet of history. Though Ray Palmer was one of the earliest and biggest names in SF fandom, credited with many firsts in his field, his fannish brethren have roundly ignored him, thanks to the Shaver Mystery. What is the truth behind these men and their "mystery"? This is the question writers and editors that promoted the Shaver Mystery try to answer as they reveal the behind-the-scenes story of the phenomenon known as "Shaverism."

The TRUTH OF THE INNER EARTH REVEALED! In 1960, UFO writer Michael Barton, known to his readers as Michael X, published a small book titled RAINBOW CITY AND THE INNER EARTH PEOPLE, a curious mashup of various hollow-earth theories, the Hefferlin Manuscript, and the Shaver Mystery. Michael X tells us that the Inner Earth is far from an enlightened homogenous group. Some of the inhabitants are Masters, some are deros, and some are ordinary humans. A fascinating book that everyone interested in the inner-earth should have!

1983 Highly illustrated. Gives much valuable information on the hollow earth, hollow earth societies, early hollow earth pioneers or "In-Earthologists".