Lemurians of Mount Shasta
Down the Crazy Hole
The town of Mount Shasta is home to a lot of beautiful nature, but it's also home to a lot of weirdos too. Some of it’s weirdest residents are the Lemurians who live under the mountain. The first time the Lemurians showed up on the mountain was in the book A Dweller on Two Planets, which I can only describe as an early New Age christian sci-fi novel. The Lemurians from the book are descendants from the lost continent of Lemuria. What the hell is the lost continent of Lemuria? The key to Lemuria is in its name. Lemurs.
In 1864 a zoologist named Philip Sclater noticed he could find lemur fossils in Madagascar and in India region, but not in the lands between the two or even in Africa. So, the answer to this riddle was there was a second lost continent that was between the two. In honor of the adorable little dudes who gave birth to the idea, this hypothetical lost continent was named Lemuria.
Frederick Spencer Oliver, author of A Dweller on Two Planets, took the idea of Lemuria and spiced it up a bit. It went from a continent under the ocean full of dead lemurs to a great lost civilization to rival that of Atlantis, and in his book the last two survivors of this civilization escaped the collapse by living inside a temple under Mount Shasta for thousands of years. From there, the idea was expanded on by occultist Harvey Spencer Lewis in 1931.
Written under the pseudonym Wishar Cervé, his book, Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific, said it wasn’t just two immortal survivors living under Mount Shasta, but it was a whole city of Lemurians down there called Telos.
From here the silliness just escalates and the Lemurians end up getting adopted and co-opted by quite a few New Age and occult movements and you can pretty much find a Lemurian to fit any weird belief you have if you search long enough. My personal favorite Lemurian theory is that the underground city is secretly a UFO base, and the Lemurians use the lenticular cloud cover on the mountain to hide when they take off or land.
That’s just a taste of some of the weirder Northern California history. Still not as weird as being the home of chemtrails.
