About the Author
(photo by Carmen Ronan)
Jerome Clark is a prize-winning author of the multivolume UFO Encyclopedia (1990–1998) and other books, including Unexplained! Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena (Visible Ink Press, 1998) and Unnatural Phenomena (2005). A former editor of Fate magazine, he serves on the board of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and co-edits its magazine, International UFO Reporter. In June 2008 the Society for Scientific Exploration, an organization of professionals in the physical and social sciences, gave him its Dinsdale Award for “significant contributions to the expansion of human understanding through the study of unexplained phenomena … which have brought to the general public comprehensive and trustworthy information presented from a sophisticated perspective.”
Clark is also a songwriter (Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tom T. Hall, Seldom Scene, Mary Black, and others) and a prolific writer on roots music. He pursues a wide range of interests—political, historical, and literary—from his home in Minnesota.
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ISBN 978-1-57859-175-6
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clark, Jerome.
Hidden realms, lost civilizations, and beings from other worlds / by Jerome Clark.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-57859-175-6
1. Lost continents. 2. Geographical myths. 3. Extraterrestrial beings. I. Title.
GN751. C6 2010 398.23’4—dc22
2010000785
Printed in Singapore by Imago
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Arthur & Vivien Larson
Contents
PART ONE Earth’s Secret Places
Lemurian Mountain: Outpost of the Lost Continentals
A Sunken Continent of the Mind: Cayce’s Atlantis
Cities of the Poles: Voyages by Exclamation Point