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142 worthy rulers than our own Republicans and Democrats take over—both up on the surface and down in the caverns. But they themselves find no way of telling the men of the U. S. that will be understood, believed and acted upon. When they do talk to a man, he is frightened, thinks he is having delusions, goes to a psychiatrist and has himself psycho-analyzed. There is no greater ignorance, no greater barrier to progress than the blindness engendered by the sense of all-knowing self-sufficient egoistic fol-de-rol our educational system has given our average American school product.

I love those people down there, fighting unseen and unheard and unhonored, fighting and warding off from us a fate that words cannot describe. The dero of the caverns could depopulate the earth within months if they were free to do so, with the antique mech-rays. These people are ignored by our "omniscient" statesmen, though many of them know much of the caverns and their secrecy, and we could help them much if only the curtain of "it isn't true," "they don't exist," "voices are imagination" were gone.

That is what I am trying to do; remove that curtain once and for all. Believe me, it is vitally necessary, or I would not have the courage to face the possible consequences!

"HAND ME SOME DRY NEEDLES!"

Meaningless phrase, isn't it? But not if you see the torturer, his needles slippery with blood, reaching for less elusive tools.

It would be possible to buy some of the mech in certain parts of the cavern world. These locations where the caverns are peopled by humans with some idea of developing a future for man could be found—if the whole governmental and "scientific" set-up of the nation, of the world, were not too "smart" to be taken in by such a "hoax." Hex doctors, other practitioners of the black art such as Demonist cults, do buy apparatus from the underworld. Not the men who DON'T "hear voices" (even when they do). Statistics show that everyone hears voices sometimes—not the scientists who call everyone who does not agree with them "crack-pots"; not the gentlemen who have learned all there is to know about life, the interior of the earth, science and Einstein. You yourself, if you are honest with yourself, must admit that you have "heard voices" at one time or another in your life. Think carefully. AH! You had put it aside as imagination! But was it? No, it wasn't! It happened!

ANY things could be obtained of infinite value from these people in the caverns, if all of our civilization was aware and trying to salvage even a bit of the mighty wisdom the Elder race left behind them in their miracles of machine art. BUT it can't be done as long as "officialdumb" frowns upon all such efforts as "superstition," "black art," or "crackpots." It is a vital and unseen side of our life WHICH MUST BE OPENED TO THE PUBLIC GAZE!

The fact is that any honest investigation of super-normal manifestation always and invariably turns up mighty important data; which data is shelved by fearful, ignorant and bigoted people who are quite sure that the school books are right, and that they cannot go contrary to opinion or they will lose their "position."

You see in today's paper: "THREE AIRPLANES DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY WITH FOURTEEN MEN IN THEIR CREWS." You see, every day, a constant succession of such Fortean occurrences, such impossible accidents and wrecks and catastrophes. On our "foolproof" railways the signals go awry and one part of a famous "cross-continent flyer" runs into another part—of ''the same train! Over and over you read of the "impossible" happening!''

Yet you are told there are no caverns, there could not be any "antique miracle machinery," AND I MYSELF AM TO BELIEVE THAT I AM THE VICTIM OF DELUSIONS. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE FELT THE SEARING RAYS, BEEN TORMENTED BY INVISIBLE DEVICES, SEEN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECTIONS OF THINGS THAT DO NOT EXIST ON EARTH TODAY AND TALKED TO THE PEOPLE WHO MANIPULATE AND USE THESE DEVICES EVERY DAY—AND HAVE BEEN DOWN IN THERE AND SEEN AND TOUCHED IT ALL WITH MY OWN HANDS.

It would be comforting to feel that I was the victim of a self-deluding mental quirk, for I would realize there was no threat hanging over the heads of the American people; there was no need to overcome the blindness of these people, that no deros kill regularly and steadily by such methods as caused Heirens to kill for George Murmans. That if I did not try to do what I do, these killings such as Suzanne Degnan would not be in part upon my head. For I know that much could be done to stop such killings if only people knew what the real cause was. Locking Heirens up did not stop George Murmans. George Murmans can kill you! It would be smarter to punish the psychiatrists who deny George Murmans exist, for they probably know quite well that the voices have real people behind them, and are not men enough to admit that all is not understood about such phenomena. A psychiatrist is a worse criminal, if he does know, a greater coward than Heirens seems to be, blaming it on a phantom.

Every experienced psychiatrist has heard hundreds of people confess they "hear voices," and that some of the "voices" prompt them to criminal acts. Yet how many have the courage to affirm the voices' real existence. THEY ARE AFRAID OF YOU, the public! Yes, they fear the common man's conviction that "all such phenomena are delusions" and, that fear is justified! BUT, SOMEONE, SOMETIME, HAS TO CONQUER THAT BLIND DENIAL OF FACT AND COME OUT IN THE OPEN WITH THE TRUTH ABOUT VOICES, ABOUT SUCH CRIMES AS HEIRENS', AND ABOUT SUCH