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9-th, 2002 - 30: 2
Shaver & Palmer Part 2 ::new::
Shaver & Palmer
Part 2
The Letter
The editor of Amazing Stories, Ray Palmer retrieved a wrinkled letter out of the round-file, and smoothed it out. This letter from a fan, Richard Shaver, would change his life forever.
Sirs,
Am sending this in hope you will insert it in an issue to keep from dying with me. It would arouse a lot of discussion. Am sending you the language so that some time you can have it looked at by some one in the college or a friend who is a student of antique times. The language seems to me to be definite proof of the Atlantean legend.
A great number of our English words have come down intact as romantic ?ro man tic-?science of man patterning by control,? Trocadero ? t ro see a dero- ?good one see a bad one?- applied now together. It is an immensely important find, suggesting the god legends have a base in some wiser race than modern man; but to understand it takes a good head as it contains multi-thoughts like many puns on the same subject. It is too deep for ordinary man ? who thinks it is a mistake. A little study reveals ancient words in English occurring many times. It should be saved and placed in wise hands. I can?t, will you? It really has an immense significance, and will perhaps put me right in your thoughts again if you will really understand this.
I need a little encouragement.
Accompanying the strange letter was an even stranger document called ?The Mantong Alphabet.? It was these two documents Ray Palmer published in the letter-from-the-readers department in the December 1943 Issue of Amazing Stories along with the following ?editorial? comments:
?We present this interesting letter concerning an ancient language with no comment, except to say that we applied the letter-meaning to the individual letter of many old root words and proper names and got an amazing ?sense? out of them. Perhaps if readers interested were to apply his formula to more of these root words, we will be able to discover if the formula applies ? is this formula the basis of one of the most ancient languages on Earth? The mystery intrigues us very much. ? ED.?
The response from the readers was amazing, even to editor Palmer. Hundreds had tried the ?ancient? alphabet and it worked. All were clamoring for more information. Palmer set down and wrote a letter to Shaver.
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.
** **
I Remember Shaver!
When I send out the call for information on Richard Shaver while doing research for this Special Report many people helped. The following letters are just two of the many I received from people who knew or had met Shaver.
Norma Cox
Norma Cox was the writer/publisher of Secrets, a newsletter that had a very large following until she closed it down in 1996 because of failing health. As she told me when I went to visit her recently at her home in Arkansas, ?while my spirit wants to continue with my work, my age and the fact that I tire easily tells me I?ve had it.? She is also the author of several books including her most recent, The New Spoilers.
Norma wrote:
?My relationship with Richard began when I wrote him a letter, after which we began corresponding regularly. I?ve looked for his letters everywhere within my reach ? I wanted to send them to you ? but I can?t locate them. I can assume they are gone for good. The best I can do is tell you what I remember.
?I learned of Richard through Ray Palmer?s Flying Saucer magazine. I don?t recall what prompted me to write the first letter to Richard. Whatever it was, the effect was positive.
?A trip to northern Arkansas with my sister-in-law brought me direct contact with Richard. Summit [Arkansas, where Shaver lived] was only a little out of our way, so why not?
?I still remember that grocery store in Summit where we stopped to ask directions to the Shaver home. Politely, a gentleman pointed out the way. It was only a little way from the main part of town. I drove on the driveway alongside a rather large house that appeared to be maybe thirty years old. At the end of the drive we stopped by the garage which was Richard?s Rock Shop. We got out of the car and stepped through the large opening. It was as though Richard knew we were coming. I spotted a high stool and seated myself upon it. My sister-in-law stood and began moving slowly about, looking at Richard?s paintings, some of which featured naked women. She became concerned and whispered to me, ?Lets get out of here!? But I wasn?t about to leave. I had come to see and talk to Richard Shaver and that I was going to do.
?Richard was a quiet, soft-spoken man. And he was generous. I think if I had asked he would have given me one or more of his paintings. (How I wish I had asked!).
?That was a long, long time ago. Over the years my memory of Richard has faded, I?m glad of the opportunity to revive all that I can recall of this truly unusual and remarkable person. What an adventurous spirit was his. Gentle and modest, he lived in a wonderful world of his own making. But, was it all make believe? I don?t think so. It would be stupid to believe Earth is the only inhabited planet, that ours is the only planet harboring intelligent life. There is an elite, the members of which know that? Without division, Earth would be barren. Were there no division there would be no day and night, there would be no life on Earth. There should be speculation, for through speculation we keep our minds open to free thought.
?What if the government admitted, ?Yes, the crust as well as the inside of Earth are inhabited?? With surface problems becoming insurmountable perhaps we would all rush for the nearest cave, hoping to find somewhere within its interior vast open areas with a small sun hanging stationary overhead.
?Deros and Teros ? did Shaver make them up or do they actually exist? What of flying saucers ? flying craft from other worlds?
?The government will not forever be able to continue its lies? the Phoenix will set fire to itself, and out of the ashes will arise a new bird, one with two heads? the good and the bad. Deplorable, I will agree, but essential to existence.
?It appears that Deros have all but taken charge of the world. The prophesied Armageddon is said to be in the offing. Another civilization will follow, out of which, once again, will arise division, conflict. Do we really want perfection? Personally, I think perfection would be a bore. I have only one complaint. Life is too short.
?We are given enough time to learn to cope with the difficulties that begin to confront us at the time of birth. A creed for a safe and sane world is simple ?Do to others as you would have them do to you.? But were we to follow that creed, we would have a safe and sane world, which means there would be no division, which means that our world would become barren.
?Good and evil. One cannot exist without the other. The Teros and Deros, Good and Evil. Each necessary to the existence of the other. Shaver?s writings and books contain wisdom that even he didn?t understand. Perhaps that was because nature had provided Richard Shaver with an almost over-abundance of good.
Your friend always,
Norma Cox
Mary Martin
Mary Martin was the Editor/Publisher of The Hollow Hassle, a major Hollow Earth ?zine during the late 70s through 1986. Not only did she send information no one else had and a dozen of her personal photos of Richard with her and Tal LaVesque, but she also sent the following letter. The Hollow Earth Insider Research Report owes a lot to both Mary Martin and Norma Cox? after all they led the way.
Mary Martin writes of Shaver?s death:
?The day I got the letter from Dot [Richard Shaver?s wife] concerning Rich?s passing we lived in Hawthorne California. The envelope had Dot?s name on the return address, so I know what had happened before I even opened the letter (which I can?t find anywhere).
?The incidents surrounding his death are very strange. Prior to his death, Rich had a contract to go to Hollywood and be an adviser on an inner earth/ cavern type of movie. He was very excited about it and even bought himself new false teeth for the occasion. Before leaving for Hollywood, he came down with a bowel obstruction, which would need surgery. Usually this is a very minor type surgery. Before leaving for the hospital he told Dot that he would not leave the hospital alive; that the Deros would not allow him to make this movie and he would die in the hospital. Dot assured him that it was only minor surgery, and that he would be just fine. She was right regarding the surgery it was successful. But when he was recovering in the hospital he had 2 heart attacks. This was still not enough to kill him, but he died before leaving the hospital. Remembering Rich?s prophecy, Dot decided to have an autopsy performed on him. The results showed that he had cancer of the pancreas. I?m not that well versed on human anatomy but wouldn?t the doctors have seen that when they operated on him for the bowel obstruction? Also, the movie contract disappeared and Dot couldn?t remember the Studio?s name. Did Richard Shaver finally fall victim to the Deros that he had spent a major portion of his life trying to expose?
Mary Martin.
Sources
1. Jim Pobst. Shaver: The Early Years. Port St. Lucie, FL: Arcturus Books. 1989.
2. Ibid.
3. Walter Kafton-Minkel. Subterranean Worlds. Fort Townsend WA: Loompanics Press Unlimited. 1989.
4. Ibid.
5. Ray Palmer (Editor). The Hidden World. Amherst, Wisconsin: Palmer Press.
6. Walter-Kafton-Minkel. Subterranean Worlds
7. Life Magazine. May, 21, 1951
8. Ray Palmer?s Forum magazine. Volume 6 Number 86. November 1971.
9. Personal correspondence from Norma Cox to Dennis Crenshaw.
10. Personal correspondence from Mary Martin to Dennis Crenshaw.
Related links:
About: UFOs Strange Connections
http://clickit.go2net.com/adclick?cid=180714&site=dp&cp=dogpile&clickurl=http%3A//ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa061797.htm%3Fiam%3Ddpile%26terms%3D%252BRay%2B%252BPalmer
The Fan from Tomorrow by Walter A. Willis
http://fanac.org/fanzines/Willis_Papers/Fan_From_Tomorrow.html
Richard Toronto?s Shavertron
http://www.softcom.net/users/vtown/splashtron.htm
Who was Richard Shaver?
http://www.peterbernard.com/gdfunnies/werdness.html
The Shaver Mystery by Richard Toronto
http://www.parascope.com/nb/articles/shaverMystery.htm
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