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Before Sitchin and Co -- alien contactee wrote in the 1940s about ET's who came to earth 12,000BC, created robots, humans and hybrid servants, th
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I came across an article about a guy called Richard Shaver, and he featured in a paranormal magazine from the 1940s called Amazing Stories. In it he claims that a race of ET's called the Titans came to this planet a very long time ago and began to seed life (BTW his writings pre-date Sitchin and all of the other ancient astronaut scholars).
Anyway, according to Shaver, they discovered that our sun was causing them to age prematurely so they went inside the gigantic city sized caverns beneath the earth and they seeded more life in there (Hopi legend claims that their ancestors originated in caveworlds beneath the Earth, but came to the surface when it became over-crowded). He goes on to say that they created robot beings to serve them as well as mixed breed beings, i.e., reptilians humanoids (the Hopi and many other ancient cultures also talk of their snake brothers who dwelt in the cavern worlds with their ancestors). He says that the creators or Titans eventually decided to leave the planet, but left most of the robots and mutants behind because there wasn't enough room on their craft for all of them.
Here's the article:
A Warning to Future Man
Shaver sent Palmer a 10,000 word letter entitled “A Warning For Man” which Palmer ran through his editor’s typewriter ending up with a “31,000 word story which [he] entitled “I Remember Lemuria!” “Complete with exclamation mark.”
According to the story published under Shaver’s byline, over 12,000 years ago a race known as the Titan-Altans came from a distant planet and settled on earth. They first settled on the continent of Atlantis and their culture spread all across the new planet. These extraterrestrial aliens communicated by thought transference and had spaceships that could travel at the speed of light. They also understood genetics far beyond our knowledge today and constructed “robot races” to do their dirty work. One of these “robot races” are our ancestors. Interestingly enough, another of these genetically created beings was half human-half snake. They also created fabulous machines that could have taken care of their every want and need.
Then their top scientists discovered the sun and its harsh radioactive rays was causing them to age. They began to construct huge cave-cities underground, using existing caverns when possible and then using huge machines to excavate even larger ones. Over a long period of time these cavern realms grew until they covered twice as much area as the exterior lands. Richard Shaver describes the cave system in Why the Caves are Secret in Issue A-1 of Hidden Worlds, Spring 1961:
“…I repeat. With the most positive finality, the caverns do exist, and they are incredibly extensive, so that the possible population (were not so many dead) could be thousands of times that of the surface of the earth, because it consists of very many tiers of caves …The caves are connected by broad highways, carved through the solid rock for thousands of miles, the whole inner earth being a vastly complicated network of tunnels connecting literally thousands of great caved as large as any surface city, and some so large as to dwarf a New York to insignificance,”
However, moving underground didn’t help. The whole planet was contaminated and Titans were only living for a few hundred years. The decision was to abandon the planet. According to Shaver their population was “more than fifty million” and:
“…There wasn’t enough spacecraft to transport all the Titans, plus all the robot races to a new planet nor, due to the great distance between the earth and the planet they had chosen as their new home would they be able to return for all of them. So many of the robots were left behind to fend for themselves; those who became our ancestors returned to the surface, adjusting to the sun’s radiation, and after many generations forgot about the caves beneath them. But many other robots remained in the cavern cities. They were shielded from some of the detrimental rays of the sun, but neither did they receive its beneficial rays; although they survived and reproduced, most of them degenerated into a race of psychotic dwarfs Shaver called dero, short for detrimental robots. There were others in the caves who managed to stave off the mental and physical deterioration of the dero, and did all they could to defeat them; they were the tero (integrative robots).”
However the deros were in control of all the wonderful machines left behind by the departing Titans and they used them to cause trouble for the humans on the exterior of the planet, everything from train, plane and car accidents to stumping toes and misplaced house keys, according to Shaver, was the fault of the deros.
The issue of Amazing Stories was a total sellout and Palmer began to include Shaver stories in ever issue. The Shaver stories caused the pulp magazine to increase its circulation from 135,000 to over 185,000. The letters from fans from 50 a month to 2500. It seemed that everyone had some kind of experience to report having to do with the mystery. Many claimed contact with deros, or that their neighbors were actually deros! The deros were referred to as “the fifth column from hell!” and an ex-Air Force Captain wrote:
“For heaven’s sake drop the whole thing! You are playing with dynamite. My companion and I fought our way out of a cave with submachine guns. I have two 9-inch scars on my left arm … my friend has a hole the size of a dime in his right biceps. It was scary inside … We both believe we know more about the Shaver Mystery than any other pair … don’t print our names. We are not cowards, but we are not crazy.”
The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories was devoted entirely to the Shaver Mystery. However, everyone wasn’t happy with the magazine devotion to Shaver.
“The Queens Science Fiction League of New York passed a resolution that the Shaver stories endangered the sanity of their readers, and brought the resolution before the Society for the Suppression of Vice. A fan conference in Philadelphia was rocked by threats to draw up a petition to the Post Office, asking that Amazing Stories be banned from the mail,”
After the June 1947 issue, the Shaver stories were discontinued in Amazing Stories. Ray Palmer claimed that “someone convinced the publisher, William B. Ziff of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company that the theories of Shaver and Palmer were in flat contradiction to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity” and “this was obviously too much.”
Shaver believed that the stories were discontinued because a handful of science fiction fans were upset because Amazing was now featuring “true” stories and wanted the pulp to return to strictly fictional material. Several of these science fiction fans started a letter writing campaign and sent hundreds of letters to the publishing company about the Shaver stories. At any rate, Palmer quit his job, in support of Richard Shaver and his writings.
Palmer went on to start many of his own publications, Flying Saucers, Search, Mystic, Forum and several others. Probably the best known and most successful of these publications was Fate magazine which is still around today. He also published a series of 16 books called The Hidden World in the early 1960s, devoting the whole first issue (A-1) to the Shaver Mystery.
Shaver continued to tell his story, first in the short-lived Shaver Mystery Magazine, and later, to a steady stream of visitors to his small “Rock Shop” in Arkansas. At the height of it’s popularity most of the people in the US and many around the world knew of the Shaver Mystery. Today, except for a handful of Si-Fi buffs and those of us looking for information on our hollow planet, the knowledge of the Shaver Mystery seems to have disappeared. It’s as though the secret must be contained.
Both Ray “Rap” Palmer and Richard Sharpe Shaver died in 1975. Both insisted until the end, that what they were warning us of was true.
Was Richard Shaver a messenger chosen by some group of cosmic elders to open our eyes to the underground kingdoms and the dangers of the dero? Or was he simply a “crazy man” with a vivid imagination and a way with words? I believe the answer may be a combination of both.
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