In the state of Arizona there is one of the
most amazing natural wonders to ever exist on our planet.
It’s called The Grand Canyon and it is absolutely massive,
standing at 277 miles long and up to 18 miles wide.
The Grand Canyon has been carved over a hundred million years by the Colorado River
and is considered to be a major natural phenomenon quite unlike anything we have ever seen.
Besides being majestic to behold and a very much visited tourist attraction,
the Grand Canyon also holds much deeper mysteries.
Mysteries that many of its visitors have no idea about.
Many strange and unique oddities to say the least are alleged to be in,
near, around and even buried inside, this beautiful Arizona landmark.
There are many places throughout the world where there are said to
be some remnants of some ancient civilization bruised beneath it,
far beyond or right out of sight of what we can see and perceive as human beings.
Places where, since the beginning of time, have been enchanted
and kept from not only our view, but up until recently from our knowledge as well.
These legends come from places near and far.
Remote and desolate, wild untravelable and inhospitable places throughout the
globe and as we will learn today, right in the middle of the Arizona desert.
This tale revolves around an explorer, one who is by all who speak of him,
in and of himself a man of mystery.
Not much is known about him, personally except that he allegedly stumbled upon,
completely by accident or just sheer luck, one of these ancient civilizations lost in time.
On April 5th, 1909 in that week's edition of the Arizona Gazette,
there was an article about two archaeologists who were on an expedition in the Grand Canyon
which was said to be funded by the Smithsonian.
The men claimed that in the Marble Canyon section of the Grand Canyon itself,
they found an expansive system of caves and caverns and, upon exploring further,
found remnants of some ancient and lost civilization that once inhabited there.
The Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology were said to have funded this expedition
and the men stated that, upon descending approximately 1500 feet down into the bowels
of the Canyon and a wall of pure cliff, they came to a very remote and seemingly untouched area.
They described it as not only being almost inaccessible but said it was surrounded by
an almost forbidden area of wilderness, which shocked and amazed them both.
The explorers' names were G E Kinkaid and Professor S A Jordan.
Mister Kinkaid was no doubt the more vocal of the two men
and would speak often of the sights beheld by the men while on this adventure.
He explained that the area was certainly a place which would be forbidden by the government for
any tourist or visitor to enter, under penalty of being charged with trespassing.
He said the scientists wanted to keep this place a secret because they didn’t want to
be bombarded with people trampling all over it, trying to hunt for relics or
souvenirs of some sort and also there was a deep fear of, if the exact location would be disclosed,
the place itself would become an attraction all it’s own and therefore the artifacts and
possibly even the history would be damaged and spoiled forever; trampled on by a bunch
of amateur explorers all trying to get their piece of the place in the name of money over posterity.
He relayed the story of how he first happened upon the mystical place by relating,
“ I was journeying down the Colorado river in a boat, alone, looking for minerals.
Some forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon,
I saw on the east wall, stains in the sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet above the river bed.
There was no trail to this point, but I finally reached it with great difficulty.
Above a shelf which hid it from view from the river, was the mouth of the cave.
There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty yards to what was,
at the time the cavern was inhabited, the level of the river.”
As he worked his way through all of the caves and caverns he found below,
he realized there was nothing but darkness for who knows how long and leading to who knows where.
Almost everything there, within and all along the walls
was said to have been chiseled and drawn by hand and embedded deep into the stone itself.
It’s alleged that the cave system was located at least a mile down into the depths of the earth
and here is where he found the extensive chambers which led into even more tunnels
which then led to actual rooms, hundreds of them, with oval doorways which were still passable.
Mister Kinkaid described these rooms as well by stating thus,
“The main passageway is about 12 feet wide, narrowing to nine feet toward the farther end.
About 57 feet from the entrance,
the first side-passages branch off to the right and left, along which,
on both sides, are a number of rooms about the size of ordinary living rooms of today,
though some are 30 by 40 feet square.
These are entered by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by round
air spaces through the walls into the passages.
The walls are about three feet six inches in thickness.
The passages are chiseled or hewn as straight as could be laid out by an engineer.
The ceilings of many of the rooms converge to a center.
The side-passages near the entrance run at a sharp angle from the main hall,
but toward the rear they gradually reach a right angle in direction.”
Aside from how amazing just the structures themselves were and also how unbelievable it was
that all of this was discovered so deep within the ground, even more fascinating and perhaps
spectacular, were the items that were found within the walls of the massive man made city.
There were what appeared to be urns, idols, vases and even weapons.
Each one of these things were said to be
proof of some ancient civilization lost somehow to history and even time itself.
There came a point in the men’s journey where they came across a massive shrine of some kind,
brimming with all kinds of relics and artifacts,
none of which the likes had ever been seen by anyone local to the area.
The inhabitants of the surrounding area had never seen or created such things and
had no clue where they could have come from or, perhaps more importantly, who had crafted them.
Mister Kinkaid again was the one to describe what they saw
and in relaying what the shrine looked like he explained that approximately one hundred feet
from the entrance was a gigantic statue or idol, of these ancient people’s god.
It sat there, crossed legged with a lotus flower in each of its enormous hands.
The face looked Oriental and the cast was directly in the cavern and formed from it.
He said it very much resembles Buddha but none of the scientists could figure
out exactly which god it was or who ever would have worshiped it.
Some speculate that this figure, given Mister Kincaid's description,
mostly resembles some ancient Tibetan god and also their practices of worship.
He went on to say, “Surrounding this idol are smaller images, some very beautiful in form;
others crooked-necked and distorted shapes, symbolical, probably,
of good and evil. There are two large cacti with protruding arms,
one on each side of the dais on which the god squats.
All this is carved out of hard rock resembling marble.
In the opposite corner of this cross-hall were found tools of all descriptions, made of copper.
These people undoubtedly knew the lost art of hardening this metal,
which has been sought by chemicals for centuries without result.
On a bench running around the workroom was some
charcoal and other material probably used in the process.
There is also slag and stuff similar to matte, showing that these ancients smelted ores,
but so far no trace of where or how this was done has been discovered, nor the origin of the ore.”
There were many other rooms found, hundreds of them and
in each one there was something almost more spectacular and unbelievable than the next.
There were passageways that led to what looked to be granaries.
Seeds of all kinds were discovered and this was another hint,
according to Kincaid, of some sort of Oriental connection-
they were almost exactly the same as those that were found
in their own ancient temples but again there could be no final point of origin for any of
these things and no final explanations that could be based on facts or evidence found anywhere else.
Everything they were discovering was brand new for this region and place on the planet-
right down to this unknown, Buddahlike god.
The granaries were believed to be made from very hard cement.
There was a metal discovered in one of the caverns that could only be described as
“resembling platinum” as no scientist could figure out what it actually was.
It was some sort of completely unknown metal.
All over the floor of the caverns
was “Cat’s eye” stone which is a yellow stone which holds no financial value.
Each of the stones was said to be engraved with a Malay type head.
The explorers and scientists thought they had seen it all but were yet to even have
discovered the most mysterious and strange things in and about these caverns and halls.
Mysterious and unidentifiable hieroglyphs were etched in stone everywhere.
It appeared on the urns and was carved into stone tablets but nobody could decipher not
only what it meant but there wasn’t any semblance of what it all meant.
An extremely macabre and admittedly enchanting discovery was also made down
in the darkness and crypt-like halls; it was some sort of tomb or vault.
It contained rows and rows of actual mummies,
each one left in its own separate and perhaps private, hand carved shelf.
By the heads of the deceased there were broken swords and pieces of copper cups.
While only some of the mummies were covered in clay,
all of them were carefully wrapped in some sort of bark fabric.
On the lower shelves there were much less decorative and considerably more crude cups,
urns and other hand carved items.
The higher up on the shelf meant the more fine and decorative the design was on these items.
Upon further examination of the mummies it was found that there were no females or children
and only the men, it seemed, were left there and honored in this way.
Mister Kincaid made the assumption that perhaps this meant they had
stumbled upon a sort of warrior’s barracks.
There were some parts of this underground masterpiece that were considered not only
scary but dangerous and Kincaid even eluded that there was an overwhelming sense,
had by all who went near it, of dread and or doom.
He described it like this, “There is one chamber of the passageway
to which is not ventilated, and when we approached it a deadly, snaky smell struck us.
Our light would not penetrate the gloom, and until stronger ones are available we
will not know what the chamber contains. Some say snakes, but others boo-hoo this
idea and think it may contain a deadly gas or chemicals used by the ancients.
No sounds are heard, but it smells snaky just the same.
The whole underground installation gives one of the shaky nerves the creeps.
The gloom is like a weight on one's shoulders,
and our flashlights and candles only make the darkness blacker.
Imagination can revel in conjectures and ungodly daydreams back through the ages that have elapsed
till the mind reels dizzily in space.”
So, what could have possibly been the reason for building
what seems to be an almost complete civilization,
possibly related to some sort of Tibetan religious practices,
deep within the bowels of one of the United States most beloved tourist attractions?
There were quarters to sleep and others to eat;
complete with a vast array of cooking utensils and crockery.
Mister kincaid even speculated that,
in its entirety this underground city of sorts had not only enough space but the facilities too,
to comfortably house approximately 50,000 people.
Of course this is only one man’s estimation but even so it has to make one wonder.
Is it possible there were people native to this particular region
who inhabited the land long before life as we know it grew around it?
Possibly even before most of the Canyon was formed?
It’s almost impossible not to consider that the people who we
consider the “natives” to this particular place,
even to this day, descended from these people who, for whatever reason lived underground in the area.
Another newspaper article speculated even further in stating that this could be proof
that the Egyptians had in fact made their way all the way to the New World.
It reported about the discovery,
“almost conclusively proves 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 hieroglyphics,
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 Colorado will be linked by a historical chain running
back to ages which staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist.”
Today though we are only left with speculation and rumor.
There were never any pictures taken and there was also nobody who was willing
to back up Mister Kincaid's story about the underground and possibly lost city.
In this community we should know by now that factual evidence
isn’t always necessary when drawing a conclusion,
especially when it’s something possibly supernatural, paranormal or even otherworldly.
This leads us to the end of this video where we beg the question:
if this city truly existed then who built it?
Why was it so far underground and seemingly hidden from anyone and
everyone who came to explore the canyon in all the years before and even since?
Is it some sort of parallel universe thing where it existed for a little while,
enough to be explored and discovered only until the
“powers that be” whoever “they” are figured out we had found their secret and
re-closed the portal for once and for all?
Was this a trip to an alternate dimension?
Was it truly proof of ancient Egyptian people traveling all the way to the New World
and then for some unknown reason abandoning
this glorious and majestic city they had built beneath the earth?
Whatever the case there is one more thing we must consider, and given that we cover so many
mysterious missing persons cases and oftentimes bizarre disappearances- where did these people go?
They clearly left behind their warriors and even an idol to their god
laboriously made by the bare hands with almost no real tools and definitely not technology to help?
These are only a few of the many questions that still to this day remain unanswered.
So what do you think folks?
Is this the stuff of fiction and fantastical legend?
Is there some truth to it or is the whole thing real and we are simply left to scratch our heads?