During that trip I went back several hundred feet along the main passage till I came to the crypt in which I discovered the mummies.
When I saw the chisel marks on the wall inside the entrance, I became interested, securing my gun and went in. There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty yards to what was, at the time the cavern was inhabited, the level of the river. There was no trail to this point, but I finally reached it with great difficulty.Ībove a shelf which hid it from view from the river, was the mouth of the cave. Some forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, I saw on the east wall, stains in the sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet above the river bed. The story of how I found the cavern has been related, but in a paragraph: I was journeying down the Colorado river in a boat, alone, looking for mineral. The scientists wish to work unmolested, without fear of archaeological discoveries being disturbed by curio or relic hunters.Ī trip there would be fruitless, and the visitor would be sent on his way. It is located on government land and no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of trespass. The entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall. "First, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible. This was anonymously submitted to Jack Andrews. Kincaid in 1908 inside the cave in the Grand Canyon. Right: Above is a scan of a tracing of a xerox copy of photograph(s)? depicting hieroglyphics allegedly photographed by G.
Is there a hidden lost underground city beneath Grand Canyon? Credit: Antoine Taveneaux - CC BY-SA 3.0 Kinkaid, the explorer who found the great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a trip from Green River, Wyoming, down Colorado, in a wooden boat, to Yuma, several months ago. The newspaper wrote as follows: "The latest news of the progress of the explorations of what is now regarded by scientists as not only the oldest archaeological discovery in the United States, but one of the most valuable in the world, which was mentioned some time ago in the Gazette, was brought to the city yesterday by G.E. To begin with, we will look at the article "Explorations in Grand Canyon", as it was originally published as a front cover story on April 5th, 1909 in the Arizona Gazette. Several alternative history authors and researchers, among them David Hatcher Childress believe the discovery did occur and this is yet another archaeological cover-up.
Ever since an intriguing article reporting the discovery of a great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon appeared in the Arizona Gazette in 1909, scientists have debated whether the story is true or a hoax.