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STRANGE ENCOUNTERS does not give their names, but upon

writing Mr. Beckley for the address of the persons involved, I received an answer to the effect that the story had been sitting in his files for over six years previous to writing the book, and his (the source of the story) current address was unknown.  Nevertheless, here is the interesting account:

     “...We are delighted it had been our privilege to make this contact with them and in such numbers and in- such happy, peaceful and beautiful surroundings. We were further pleased to find them so friendly towards us, to know that they approved of us, and wished to visit with us.

     “Since our trip to Shasta we have had some of them visit with us in our home, but they say they prefer the wooded areas of Mt. Shasta and shall await our next trip north.

     “While north this summer we came across the ruins of an old mining and logging community, with parts of old log cabins, sluice boxes hewn out of trees, gravel tailings, can dumps, and abandoned mine shafts. We tuned in on this site and learned quite a little about. the kind of community it was. While sorting out the various kinds of vibrations, a kindly old miner showed up, in spirit. He said by thought that it had been a rough and tough camp but he loved the area so much that when he had passed over into the next dimension he had no desire to leave the place. He gets lonely at times and wished we were going to stay in the area so that he might visit with us.

     “He guided us to some very interesting places, one of which was a lava formation that had an old Murian (i.e. ‘Lemurian’) character carved in the face of it. Nearby was a small cave that we found - upon concentration - led down into the depths where beings still existed. We were not sure whether they are in the body or out of the body. From their dress we concluded they were a very much older civilization than that of