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Inner Earth Conspiracy Theories #3

Mr. Mythos

The Metal Library is a supposed treasure trove hidden in the Tayos Caves of Ecuador. In the early 1900s, a humble Catholic missionary named Father Crespi was working in this area, and for his charity, the native people gifted him strange golden artifacts... artifacts that seemed to come from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. From here, mysterious fires, military investigation, and even assassination would follow – an epic Inner Earth conspiracy that would span decades.

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earth conspiracies and today we'll be digging up a treasure trove of ancient artifacts from what seemed to be an

unknown culture resembling babylon of the ancient middle east except these were found on the wrong

hemisphere in a deep and sprawling tunnel system beneath the amazon jungle in ecuador

this included massive books made of gold gemstone encrusted statues of gods and

even a crystal sarcophagus in fact this treasure was so baffling

that even the astronaut neil armstrong led a search for it in 1976

making the first man to walk on the moon possibly one of the first to step foot into a lost underground kingdom

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right into today's truly epic mystery which begins with a set of out-of-place metal artworks gifted to a humble

missionary deep in the jungles of the amazon

carlo crespi crochet today remembered as father cruspy was an italian catholic

priest who devoted 60 years of his life to charitable work in ecuador living among the indigenous people until his

death in 1982 he was a highly educated man who studied anthropology at the university of milan

and the natural sciences at the university of padua he also earned a doctorate in piano

composition however crosby's true passion was helping others

in 1923 father crespi was assigned as a missionary to the city of cuenca in

ecuador on the edge of the amazon rainforest however he went much further than

spreading the catholic religion crosby was an incredible humanitarian who truly improved the lives of the

people of cuenca for six decades he fed the hungry and raised funds for those who were impoverished and disabled he

set up electric lighting established an orphanage and multiple schools championed education for girls and as a

cinema lover he even hosted a weekly film festival but in the everyday life of his

neighbors he was simply a true friend who cared deeply for his fellow humans over those 60 years until his death

father crosby became perhaps the most beloved and respected person in cuenca

today in front of the church of maria auxiliadora there is a statue of father crusty

helping a young child many local elders still share stories about his friendship and charity and the city continues to

petition the vatican to have father crust be venerated as a catholic saint however this same man unexpectedly

became involved in a bizarre archaeological find that involved millions of dollars worth of

unbelievably strange artifacts that if authentic would rewrite history as we

know it but this did not occur in cuenca see

father cruspy didn't limit his humanitarian efforts to just this little town but also to a tribe of indigenous people

known as the schwarz far deeper into the jungles of ecuador this was partly due to his passion for

learning about culture and traditions but his heart was still the same he helped these schwa tribes people

selflessly even living in voluntary poverty with them sleeping on the dirt floor of a small hut with only a blanket

covering him for warmth during this time father crosby would actually be the first person to capture

the schwarz on film in 1927 which i'll show a short clip of here

just like the people of cuenca the schwa recognized crosby as a true and respected friend and they went out of

their way to repay his kindness in the best way they knew how through a precious gift

however what these tribes people gave to him was quite unexpected

it was a golden artifact with odd markings seemingly very ancient

obviously this gift lit up his face with a great smile as we know father cruspy had no care for

wealth but he knew this was a massive gesture of trust from the tribe and also directly appealed to his anthropological

interest but his smile spoke far more than the few words of their language he had learned the shore saw that it made him

happy so they brought him more and more

this included jewelry pottery statues of animals and gods some made with gold and

silver but most oddly he accumulated a collection of oversized rectangular

metallic plates to be clear the vast majority of these metal plates were 100 fake impressed

with crude depictions by the untrained indigenous people including recognizable symbols wildlife

and architecture all of clear modern ecuadorian origin after all the schwa had limited

resources and just wanted to make crosby smile which they absolutely did

however a small subset of these plates seemed to be authentic unlike the others they were made of gold

and were far more complex and it was this section of his metal

library as it became known that made crosby realize there was something very off about some of these

gifts as an educated anthropologist he noted that certain depictions and symbols were

completely different than what was expected in this region perhaps even in the western hemisphere

there were noticeable similarities to that of the ancient cultures of babylon and mesopotamia and also that of egypt

and far east asia but even stranger was that the golden tablets seemed to reflect a mashup of

these cultures alongside an unrecognizable written language when crespi and a translator asked

ceshwar where they were getting all these incredible and invaluable artifacts

they simply told him that they found them underground in a cave beneath the ecuadorian jungle

by the end of it all father cruspy had acquired more than 50 000 objects a

truly astonishing amount and easily enough to fill a large museum which is exactly what he did

at first he stored them in the courtyard of the maria axilladora church until the

vatican granted him permission to start a museum in the salesian school

and until 1960 father crosby's collection was actually the largest museum in ecuador

countless university and church officials professors archaeologists anthropologists and even politicians

came to visit his museum almost curious about the stranger subset of artifacts

those that had no clear ecuadorian origin and each of these people had their theories

the american explorer richard wingate visited father cruspy during the mid-1970s to photograph the collection

and of it he wrote the following quote in a dusty cramped shed on the side

porch of the church of maria auxiliadora in cuenca ecuador lies the most valuable archaeological

treasure on earth more than one million dollars worth of dazzling gold is cashed here and much

silver yet the hard money value of this forgotten horde is not its principal

worth there are ancient artifacts identified as assyrian egyptian chinese and african

so perfect in workmanship and beauty that any museum director would regard them as first-class acquisitions

since this treasure is the strangest collection of ancient archaeological objects in existence

its value lies in the historical questions it poses and demands answers to

yet it is unknown to historians and deliberately neglected in the journals of orthodox archaeology end quote

father crosby himself began speaking more openly about his opinions on the artifacts he felt were genuine and like

wingate he believed that there were clear motifs from multiple ancient cultures which the indigenous people

would have had little to no knowledge of and therefore couldn't fake allegedly crosby also suggested that

these artifacts may be antediluvian that is originating before the event of

the great biblical flood written of in the book of genesis obviously these opinions were against

the mainstream view of history it was simply impossible for any assyrian egyptian chinese or african

people to have been in ecuador some 4 000 years ago it goes against everything we're taught

and to suggest a mix of all these ancient cultures that implies something far more profound

than some ancient voyage many people like to relate crespi's metal library to the ancient alien

theory the idea that extraterrestrials were the ancestors or leaders of the first great

civilizations the mesopotamians the egyptians the chinese and the mayans

just to name a few and these ancient aliens thus passed on elements of their extraterrestrial

culture to these people that would explain why the traditions and mythologies of these cultures often

show crossover despite their distance from each other that is because they all derived from the same source

and that could explain the mix of cultures shown in crosby's metal plates because they were either made by aliens

or one of these original peoples on earth in fact this very theory is what made this

mystery famous in a book called gold of the gods by eric von daniken which we'll

be getting into a little bit later in this story however i'd like to propose an alternative theory as is the theme of

this series inner earth remember the schwa said that these artifacts came from a mysterious cave

system somewhere far off in the amazon jungle so why look above

when perhaps we should be looking below legends of gods building vast

underground cities are found in pretty much every major ancient civilization from

egypt to india to china which i've covered in detail in previous videos of mine

but as these mythologies have been documented and compared thousands of years later

it's become rather apparent that the hidden world spoken of by the ancients may not be completely independent of one

another what if they were connected by the way for over a year now i've been

working on a rather lengthy book regarding this exact theory and you can read a few early draft chapters of it on

my patreon it's called inner earth mythology and the full book should be published by the end of 2022

if you're a longtime fan of the channel you may already be aware of the most enduring sub theory of inner earth and

that is of agartha the name of a supposed network of extremely deep hidden tunnels that connect all major

inner earth civilizations and this agartha network is believed to run under entire oceans reaching every

continent and stretching across the entire world the controversial british historian

harold wilkins stated in 1945 that quote tibetan llamas even assert that in

america it is not stated whether north south or central they live in vast caves of an underworld

reached by secret tunnels peoples of an ancient world and quote

this detail given by wilkins is pretty important as i can tell you the americas

have perhaps the most consistent legends of inner earth multiple creation myths of indigenous

american peoples tell pretty much the same story that the native people emerged outward

from the surface of the earth the nihola teca which were seven tribes

native to central america asserted that they came from a subterranean ancestral home known as

chicomas talk which translates to the place of the seven caves

these seven tribes of the nihola teca eventually formed the aztec empire

the same narrative is told in north america where the hopi the zuni the

pawnee and the creek tribes all share the story that at some point in ancient times

a mouth of the earth opened up and their people emerged outward in south america the inca believed that

their forefathers came out of caves located east of cusco in peru

and similarly the indigenous brazilians claimed that their ancestors exited from a massive underground world

while some of their people decided to stay back and remain beneath the earth

so if the theory of agartha is true that this ancient and global underground

network exists might it also be possible that an ancient inner-earth people

left a library of cultural relics beneath ecuador that's the inner-earth link here and

while it's a key to unlocking this mystery we're just scratching the surface of the conspiracy

see whether or not you believe in the reality of inner earth there is no doubt

that something was going on with father crosby's metal library by the end of this story you'll have

learned of a string of generational tribal secrets suspicious destruction

international government intervention and at least one assassination associated with these artifacts

on july 19th 1962 at 1am a sudden fire broke out in father

cruspy's museum in the heat of it all the humble priests managed to save many of these precious

artifacts however many more were completely destroyed and forever lost

this same fire also destroyed cuenca's primary school secondary school and the

cinema theater all of which crosby had built to this day the cause of the fire

remains inconclusive however several witnesses filed a report with the police that they had seen two

people with fuel canteens coming out of a car decades later the ecuadorian ufologist

jaime rodriguez who's actually born raised and educated in cuenca investigated this case extensively and

concluded that quote some unknown people had robbed golden plates and then had put fire on the

crespi museum end quote father cruspy of course was devastated

and disturbed by this event and immediately relocated the surviving artifacts to the rooms and hallway of

his personal living quarters sensing that these artifacts of potential monumental archaeological

value might be in danger he would guard them for the next 15 years

but he wasn't alone as many citizens voluntarily provided near constant security so neither the artifacts nor

crosby would be in danger again father crosby would thankfully be able

to live out the rest of his life among the people that he loved without serious worry

though he was disappointed that no academic institution had taken the artifact seriously with not even a

single study conducted he was at peace knowing that he had tried his best and that god would take

it from here on april 30th 1982 father crespi passed away in cuenca from

natural causes at the age of 91. the following day a local newspaper

would write quote koenka is crying on the day of his death as it had been its

dearest son end quote many online articles that discuss this

mystery state that crespi's collection was stolen or simply disappeared after

his death however that's a slight misconception on august 9 1979 three years before his

death the sale of the crespi museum was finalized to the central bank of ecuador

the final sale price was 10 million ecuadorian sucrase which with inflation

roughly converts to 400 000 us dollars today and part of this money would be used to

build a new public school in father cruspy's name however there are a few vital details we

must consider first off remember that cruspy never actually owned his collection or the

museum these were all technically property of the roman catholic church and

they were the ones who made the sale to the central bank of ecuador second cruspy himself was disappointed

with the sale in fact he wasn't even aware of it until it happened which he

voiced to a journalist of the daily newspaper el tiempo quote i heard by local press that my bosses

according to the statutes and monastic laws and commercial agreement of the government have sold the museum to

central bank of ecuador for the sum of 10 million sucres and cuenca will receive only 3.5 million

sucres for this sale i finished my conversation mr idrovo go

with god and quote third the final sale document states

quote there was made a strict selection naming those valuable objects

six thousand five hundred pieces of the museum recognized as legitimate and precious end quote

we already knew that the majority of the fifty thousand artifacts were fake but six thousand five hundred genuine pieces

is still a shockingly high amount if you think about it all things considered and inner earth

aside there is obviously a massive secret stash of artifacts and treasure

that the shore took these objects from just keep that in mind it's not just a rumor or an assumption

but really the only reasonable explanation fourth

despite having bought all these thousands of artifacts not a single one would ever be displayed

subject to testing or research or seen again really so it's true that for 37 years crespi's

collection did effectively disappear that was until 2016 though when a team

from the publication ancient origins actually flew to ecuador in an attempt to solve this mystery once and for all

pretty cool if you ask me but what exactly did they find through a string of meetings and

personal references the ancient origins crew were eventually given permission to view crestpiece collection held in the

central bank and only under the escort of a team of police they did manage to film it though which

i'll be showing as i read quote thousands of artifacts had been carefully catalogued according to their

age and the culture they had belonged to figurines ceremonial seats weapons stone

carvings ceramics jewelry ancient calculation systems religious icons and

even elongated skulls and shrunken human heads but no metallic plates the

metallic plates were located at the opposite end of the building complex in a locked storage area of a dilapidated

old building we were shocked the metal plates and artifacts were strewn all over the floor thrown in

cardboard boxes and gathered in miscellaneous piles it was clear that no value was ascribed

to these plates the metallic plates were clearly not made of gold but a soft and pliable

metal that more closely resembled aluminum the carvings were crude and in some

cases infantile end quote however they ended this article with a

problem quote a small subset of artifacts which were photographed and filmed in the 1970s

consisting of gold carvings hieroglyphs and sumerian figures

is genuinely missing and no one seems to have any answers as to where they are

end quote these stranger artifacts the ancient origins team is referring to included

the gold and silver plates in crespi's collection as well as certain stone and clay

artifacts the problematic pieces of the collection that would rewrite history if

deemed authentic the key pieces to the puzzle were missing the team met with an expert on father

crosby a senior official at a local cuenca university who wished to remain anonymous

according to the team's report quote the official response of the expert was that these artifacts simply went missing

never to be found again while initially he said he knew nothing about the location of the missing artifacts later

on he said that he was not authorized to talk about them at some point during our discussion we

asked the expert about reports that the missing artifacts had been shipped to the vatican in italy his response was

not to deny that this took place but to say that he was aware that pieces of art had been sent to the vatican it

was quite clear during our conversation that there is something that someone does not want the public to know about

end quote father crosby's saga was just the beginning however these missing

artifacts are only the surface of a far more treacherous and ancient mystery

remember how the schwarz told father crosby that they'd retrieved these artifacts from caves beneath the jungle

well though it's not clear whether they revealed the actual location to crosby during his life

there's a pretty solid theory that the shore were speaking of cueva de los taos

known in english as etios caves

the taos caves are a vast natural underground network located beneath the

rainforest covered eastern foothills of the andes and the schwarz claim it as

their sacred land in fact these shore openly warn that this cave system is

inhabited by incredibly powerful spirits who in ancient times granted the shore

their role as guardians of the cave this strict guardianship has resulted in violent conflict in the past against

gold prospectors and military alike thus the ecuadorian government has opted to

completely remove themselves from the area and respects it as schwart territory thus

very little of the taos caves has actually been officially explored for as long as any living member of the

schware can remember their people have been entering the tio's caves using ladders made of vines

through three known entrances one of which is well over 200 feet deep

having descended into the darkness they'd light bamboo torches and proceed

through networks of caverns for two reasons first to collect baby oil birds which are

called tayos in their language hence the name of the caves and second

for spiritual and ceremonial purposes to meet with one specific spirit who

supposedly resides in the upper levels in a 1976 entry in the diary of juan

morris a treasure hunter who will meet soon quote their religious traditions confirm that

these caves are the dwelling of their god a supreme being praised by the first

inhabitants in eastern ecuador and their descendants their god is eternal

but it is unknown if they believe he has a human shape with a body or if he is simply a spirit

a soul to whom his children between april and june go down to pay tribute

through ceremonies of unknown nature end quote while his description is mostly on point

especially regarding the god's possible physical nature morris was wrong about one aspect the god of the schwar is not

a he but a shi an ascended goddess known as nun kui

in shore mythology nun kui was the very first schwar a woman who was once human

however she traveled deep into the taos caves and this act or some unknown event

during it transformed nunkui into an almighty goddess and she chose the caves

to be your home specifically the upper levels amid a wealth of gold and precious stones

and in those taos caves she created a lesser male god named sunki

and together they birthed schwar children as well as dogs who then emerged out and onto the surface

the mythology continues though as nun kui and sunki went on to host a civilization of inner earth spirits

supposedly those of deceased shore in the deeper levels of the taios caves or

possibly in another cave system altogether a place called the cave of the higher beings

as we'll learn about a bit later regardless nuncui bestowed the shore

people the right as the sole guardians of this place an important detail to note is that the

schwa warn against venturing into nune kui's personal lair out of fear of some

terrible punishment it's not clear whether this warning is for all people including the schwa or

specifically for outsiders apparently the elders know where her lair is but have never revealed this

information to younger generations let alone strangers this myth of noon kui's lair is curious

though as is believed to be a large luxurious room filled to the brim with

golden gemstones and multiple people who have met and conversed with the shore since father

cruspy's death have been told quite openly that the golden artifacts given to him were taken from within the tios

caves so it's really no secret that this is the location

it's an enormously vast unmapped network with restrictive access on the threat of

death so therein lies the problem in the mid-1960s a hungarian

speleologist and prospector named janus morris better known by his spanish nickname juan

was trucking through the andes mountains the jungle was dangerous but morris

proceeded fearlessly recounting in a rare and obscure interview from 1978

quote one day i came across the schwarz head shrinkers

i lived with them for two months but not for one second that i believed they could be the ones holding the secret end

quote after treasure hunting in peru bolivia and argentina

morse had met with a source in ecuador who tipped him off to a remote cave that might be well worth his time

until his death moritz kept his source anonymous however we will eventually find out who it was

at the foot of one of the openings to the tiles caves possibly one that is still unknown to the public he climbed

in quote the vegetation was hiding an entrance to a cave

the rock marked the exact spot i came close to the edge of the entrance

which was barely three feet wide equipped with my lantern i dove into this mysterious corridor and quote

mapping his position morris traveled further and further in until finally he

came across a section of the cave that was clearly not natural but man-made

moritz would leave out details as to not expose his route but at some point here he discovered the entrance to a secret

chamber as he would recount the walls ceilings and general architecture within it were

perfectly carved a long hallway stretched out from the back and as he traveled through it he finally stumbled

upon the mother lode quote all around me and as far as the eye could see

i saw a mountain of shining gold i spotted human skeletons completely

covered by a thin layer of gold i saw a desk of polished stone

over it there were large open books with golden pages i barely dared to brush the

golden pages with engraved hieroglyphs surely these indestructible books

include the history of all civilizations those from above and below

end quote it was a monumental find a library of massive golden plates

strung together into books each impressed with pictures and symbols that seemed to be of a mixed eastern

origin with writings in a language he did not recognize but most closely resembled cuneiform

it seemed that morris had discovered the origin of father crosby's collection crespi's golden plates were pages from

these golden books this was truly the find of a lifetime so murats had to proceed with the utmost

caution in particular he needed to ensure that he had legal rights to the discovery and for that he needed a

trusted lawyer so with his possession carefully mapped he closed the secret chamber and

proceeded to exit the cave for the next year he would carefully network to find the right legal

representative to share this discovery with and through a senator friend he was introduced to a prominent lawyer from

ecuador's largest city guayaquil a man named gerardo pena mateos

due to the necessary legal role he had to play mateos required morris to show him the treasure trove and morris did

just that allowing matteos to confirm that this mysterious place and his treasures did indeed exist exactly as

morris described in june of 1969 they both wrote a

detailed description of the findings quote the subterranean world exists and inside

his chambers i have discovered valuable objects of great cultural and historical value to humanity

the objects consist especially of metal sheets that probably contain the summary

of the history of an extinguished civilization of which we don't have the least

indication to date and quote on july 21st they had this document

notarized and finally submitted it to the ecuadorian government expecting to be met with a team or at

the very least resources for an expedition they never heard back and if there was

no way they could take it all out themselves most of these artifacts were massive particularly the metal books

which could not be lifted without equipment or a larger team so for the next several years again with

the utmost caution both morris and matteos vetted their options for someone to fund a full-scale

expedition and in these efforts they met a certain ancient astronaut

theorist a swiss man named eric von danigan

eric von daniken is an author best known for his controversial theories on

extraterrestrial involvement in early human civilizations he pretty much made the ancient

astronaut hypothesis mainstream with his breakthrough book chariots of the gods and today tanakan can still be seen

giving enthusiastic red-faced monologues on the popular history channel show

ancient aliens in 1973 though he had released yet another bestseller titled gold of the

gods and in it danican described an expedition he himself took through those man-made

tunnels of the tio's caves led by none other than juan moritz

in the book he described entering this secret chamber then marveling over the mounds and mounds of gold and impossible

treasures and particularly the metal library which he considered to be irrefutable evidence of ancient

extraterrestrial involvement on earth early on juan mars had gone public that

eric von danigan was lying there had never been any expedition between them and

danican has certainly never seen the artifacts himself moritz revealed to the german magazine

der spiegel that the entire thing had come from a single long conversation that they had and that danican had used

archival photos of moritz and after more than 5 million copies of

gold of the gods had sold eric von daniken came clean short of outright

saying that he embellished the whole thing danican admitted in an interview that quote

in german we say a writer if he is not writing pure science is allowed to use

some dramaturge effect some theatrical effects

and that's what i have done end quote regardless of what really happened

between them eric von danican had played his role his book gold of the gods had shot juan

moritz father crosby and the taos caves to absolute fame

a wealthy well-connected and enthusiastic scottish civil engineer named stanley hull had heard about

father crosby's collection many years prior actually he filmed it in the 70s but it was only after reading danican's

gold of the gods that he became absolutely obsessed with the implications of this impossible inner

earth treasure according to hall the book sparked a quote personal

odyssey into the heart of global enigmas the origins of mankind and quote

in short stanley hall had made finding this metal library his life mission

thankfully hall was a highly capable man in 1973 he led the first archaeological

survey of the calendar stone circles in scotland to great success but this accomplishment would be nothing

compared to what he did just three years later in 1976

hull organized an international expedition that would involve 120 members

including british and ecuadorian government and military officials british special forces

leading scientists and speleologists eight professional cavers an entire film crew and the former

astronaut and the first man on the moon neil armstrong who served as the expedition's honorary

president now hold on you're probably wondering how the heck

did neil armstrong get involved i mean just a few years earlier he had literally been on the moon

according to stanley hall's daughter quote neil was interested in what goes on in outer space and dad had read von

danigan's book my dad himself had links to the armstrong clan his mother was an

armstrong and mentioned it to neil in a letter it was a shot in the dark but my dad

wrote we are organizing this expedition to ecuador would you like to come to his surprise armstrong replied yes it

would be an honor to join you end quote so there you have it even neil armstrong

thinks this stuff is cool but you may have noticed there was someone missing from the participant

list and that was juan morris now hall had originally proposed his

expedition to moritz in fact he was the very first person hall went to however morris would only accept on the

condition that he would lead the expedition unlike morris stanley hall was an

experienced civil engineer and project manager who was far more capable of leading a successful expedition of this

magnitude so hall refused moritz was not at all concerned though

as he was certain that he was the only one capable of reaching the treasure and without him

it would simply be impossible

it was 1976 and all the pieces were coming together the ecuadorian british governments had

shaken hands a dream team of experts has signed on to the project and even neil

armstrong was coming however they still didn't know exactly where to look

so without morris's help hall would come to rely on two certain facts

first that father crespi's medal library has certainly come from schwar territory

and second that at least some of the schwarz knew where unsurprisingly this plan to simply ask

chore nicely didn't really pan out these tribes people gave father cruspy his

gifts out of a deep love and respect for him and the many years he spent with him

and stanley hall and his expedition crew were complete outsiders who were not only trespassing on their territory but

also intended on invading their ancient sacred inner-earth realm that they were the designated guardians of

by the way that's why the ecuadorian and british militaries were involved so nobody lost their heads

after asking around with other nearby communities hall and his crew were repeatedly warned

that none dare adventure into the etios caves because rumors had it that the

shore had been actively guarding a hidden subterranean civilization for hundreds if not thousands of years

you might be asking a subterranean civilization of what exactly would it be the powerful spirit said to

inhabit the caves well whatever they are they aren't human

in an interview given for a french book titled lis entre terreste juan morris recounted a specific and

chilling warning he received from a schwar elder quote he warned us of the dangers

and told us the story of the intra-terrestrials just as he had learned from his father before him

the inhabitants of the caverns are gods he said they have dominated the strength of the

earth and the sun they have lightning that kills with which you can pierce through mountains

their kingdom extends under the roots of the virgin jungle be careful with what your eyes will see

you must touch nothing you must take nothing even if you believe you are alone

their eyes will follow you wherever you go end quote this warning if authentic is a bit scary

to say the least whether stanley hall was given the same warning though is unknown

however it was clear that hull's enthusiasm for the expedition would not be dampened by rumors

the schwar may have not been very receptive to hull but in a surprising turn of events they became far more

friendly when they met neil armstrong like everyone else in the world even a

somewhat remote tribe like the schwarz had heard of the moon landing and the elders arranged a grand meeting for him

to greet armstrong as a true hero after this several shore volunteered to

help and led the expedition crew to a specific entrance of the cave and gripping on a wire ladder

down neil armstrong went into the darkness finally taking his one small step onto

the cave floor the entire time being watched by silent schwar from above

after it was all said and done the expedition lasted 35 days until their vast resources were finally exhausted

it was both the most extensive and expensive expedition of the tiles caves

as well as the largest cave expedition of its time hall and armstrong's team mapped almost

10 miles of this natural cave system discovered over 300 new animal and

insect species and incredibly they did find a multitude of man-made structures

carved tunnels rooms and ancient relics of great archaeological value

they even found a human body and artifacts dating back to 1500 bc

which confirmed that these caves had been frequented since truly ancient times however

they found no treasure and none of the recovered relics remotely resembled

father crosby's strange collection nor the metal library described by juan moritz

in a bitter disappointment one of the lead researchers apparently voiced his frustration to a local shore

elder who with a sly smile revealed to him that hull's team had investigated the wrong

cave and that the real cave and the location of the treasures remained the exclusive secret of the schwarz

indeed even morris's lawyer gerardo mateos would later reveal that morris

had intentionally misled everyone to the taos caves as well including eric von daniken whereas the

true treasure was in a nearby but completely different cave system a place which he called the cave of the

higher beings while it seems most likely that the 1976

expedition had been deliberately deceived and directed away from the true treasure

that doesn't mean there's no conspiracy to speculate here after all there were two governments involved and possibly

three if you count neil armstrong as a representative of the us allegedly the expedition's military

portion extracted four massive boxes which no one not even the schwa who

openly cooperated were allowed to know the contents of shore reported feeling used and scammed

and had a sinking sense in their heart that expedition members took something very important from the taos caves

the expedition report itself is also noticeably short compared to what you'd expect from an undertaking of well over

100 people and over a month of non-stop exploration in recent years the ecuadorian

researcher manuel palacios has pointed out quote the concealment of reports

photographic and filmic evidence and above all the denial of the real magnitude of this underground system

which was limited to only five kilometers in length end quote also

consider that neil armstrong expressed to the press the sheer magnitude of his

experience there quote tayos is up there with the moon end

quote this short statement is not one to take lightly and makes you wonder if the

expedition findings were really as simple as they seem in occult groups who've investigated the

metal library mystery there tends to be a lot of focus on neil armstrong specifically

as the first man to step on the moon there's a popular conspiracy theory that

armstrong and the rest of his crew discovered ruins and evidence of ancient civilizations there and followed orders

to erase them from existence in order to hide this truth from humanity the reasoning was either to maintain the

narrative woven by the elite or simply out of fear of how humanity would react to this information

from here this same logic should also apply to any evidence proving the existence of an ancient advanced inner

earth civilization either of these revelations would have unprecedented effect on the validity of

our religious political and economic systems it could very easily cause a complete collapse

of course we know that neil armstrong led this expedition into the tiles caves

so really how odd is it that the first man on the moon happened to lead a journey into what was

rumored to be a hidden underground city or even civilization did armstrong participate purely out of

his own personal interest or might he have gone under the order of the american government

perhaps to find and deal with the truth of inner earth before the british and ecuadorian

governments got to it first that's about as far as that theory goes and indeed interest in the tious caves

and its metal library would never again reach the heights of the 1976 expedition

however even after this failed mission stanley hall did not give up his search for the metal library

the rumor of another cave system the cave of the higher beings was a true revelation to him and a pool of new hope

like these swaths of soldiers scientists and cavers who would return to their homes

a hall had also returned to scotland but with his eyes set on one final lead and

that was the original anonymous source who had tipped juan morris off to where he would find his treasure

back in the early 1960s when this all first began after their disagreement over the tiles

cave expedition morrison hull's relationship had seriously dwindled and moritz refused to

reveal any more details to hull and on february 27 1991 some 15 years

after they first met moritz would die suddenly from respiratory heart failure

allegedly due to a severe potassium deficiency just days before his 69th

birthday he had collapsed and died alone in a hotel room while there's nothing inherently

suspicious about this death in the previous two decades moritz had grown incredibly paranoid and had told friends

that he'd suffered multiple kidnapping attempts and even attempts on his life

he was also the owner of more than 50 safety deposit boxes across different banks in various countries but

considering what he supposedly found perhaps he had a reason to feel wary

while the death of juan morris was demoralizing for whole it ultimately fueled him for one final exhaustive

sweep and in september of that same year 1991

stanley hall found a man named petronio jaramillo who was in fact moritz's

secret source this was confirmed by marissa's lawyer gerardo mateos

petronio jaramillo was already aware of hull's life work with his search for the metal library and when they met luckily

it was on very friendly terms haramio agreed to show hold the correct entrance which he also confirmed was not

part of the tiles caves but another nearby cave system entirely

however he would only bring hull there once trust and camaraderie had developed between them and when the time was right

during multiple long interviews and exchanges of letters jaramillo revealed how he'd originally come to know the

location of the metal library like father crosby jaramillo's uncle was

a true friend of the schwarz and for much of his life had offered them assistance

one day the shore elders led him to the cave and guided him to their greatest treasure

that which they'd guarded for countless generations they showed him their secret as a

profound thank you the greatest gesture of trust one could receive however

this treasure did more than elicit appreciation from jaramillo's uncle this treasure absolutely dumbfounded him

he had never seen anything like it in his wildest dreams it was truly a sight to behold

now the uncle was a humble man and had no intention of stealing the treasure

but he couldn't just let it rest he could barely close his eyes without seeing it it was unbelievable

he had to show the treasure to someone just to prove to himself that it was real

so he chose his favorite nephew petronio jaramillo and in 1946 when jaramillo was

just 17 he took him into the cave and led him to the secret room and showed

him the impossible treasures of inner earth this was 18 years before morris

ever arrived in ecuador after this visit jaramillo would visit it only one more time

allegedly jaramillo did not take any photos simply because he thought no one would believe him it was a teenager

after all however he claimed to have imprinted his initials into the malleable gold of seven of the metal

plates to leave evidence of his presence in the metal library in a written testimony jaramillo recounted his

experience in the metal library quote first i looked inside a small chamber

and saw some golden toys and amongst these small balls of gold marbles of

different sizes climbing to a second chamber my astonishment increased there

were thousands of animal figures cattle and horses beetles sparrowhawks

mastodons reptiles crocodiles bullocks rams shrews ostriches hippopotami all on

pedestals made of brilliant stones of different colors though i could not tell

whether or not these were rubies emeralds diamonds or sapphires because i knew nothing about precious stones

there was a human skeleton with bones of gold lying on his back on a bed made of

crystal but a crystal purer than the purest water i did not know which to admire more the

crystal coffer or the skeleton moving to a third chamber figures half-human half animal as if all

the mythologies had united there were bodies with heads of hawks with horses feets with wings

birds with human arms and legs hyenas with faces of princesses of

parrots of insects spiders with faces of women

donkeys with faces of men they seem to come from the distant age of osiris thoth and anubis

then all of a sudden an overwhelming sight appeared before me unbelievable in my wildest imaginings

entire libraries full of heavy voluminous books i glanced through one

or two pages of opaque yellow metal they seemed to be written by a single person

in a near-perfect script there were known symbols crosses circles semi-circles squares triangles and stars

i saw what appeared to be mathematical formulae geometrical zodiacal ecliptic

and spatial figures in minute detail but in signs and letters of a language

unintelligible to me there were thousands of volumes lifting one was like moving a hundred

pounds of weight i put one onto a table of four legs covered in gold

then i lifted down seven books but could not replace them due to the effort required the bookshelves were covered in

beaten gold the furniture was the same all the supports of gold gold

gold and quote returning back to 1995 by this point

hall and jaramillo had conducted a solid plan for their expedition the one that would finally expose the treasure as

real the ultimate goal that hall had labored for for so so long

they planned on staying in short territory for three to four months exploring the correct cave this time and

writing a report that involved the united nations agency unesco in order to legitimatize their findings

however this was 1995 and a short but violent war broke out between ecuador

and peru known as the cenopa war and hall was forced to return to scotland

due to the dangerous political situation and there he stayed until 1998 when he

received a call from petronio jaramillo's elderly mother with disturbing news

jaramillo had been shot to death outside of his home in esmeralda's in what police called a robbery gone wrong

but to this day many believe it was a targeted assassination

after haramio's murder hall met with jaramillo's son multiple times and while

he further confirmed his father's story he couldn't add any more useful information on the location of the cave

though his chances of seeing the metal library had died with jaramillo and moritz stanley hall continued to promote

the story of the metal library beneath ecuador up until his own death in 2008

encouraging all interested parties to find this inner-earth treasure in cooperation

with preservation for the caves themselves and immense respect for the shore people

and only ever for the greater good of humanity today his daughter eileen hall munoz

carries on his legacy working in ecuador as the co-director of the tious project

a non-profit that collaborates with ngos environmentalists and local organizations toward a protected future

for the taos caves and they've done incredible work for both taos and the ecuadorian rainforest but

eileen doesn't shy away from revealing her frequent hobby of sustainable treasure-seeking

after 12 years of living in the area she still believes the metal library is somewhere beneath her feet

today juan morris's former lawyer gerardo matteos is still a vocal

proponent for his deceased client's discovery though he himself was a witness to the

treasure trove morris always obscured the path there so the location of the cave entrance is lost for mateos too

in a 2017 interview with anjocero magazine mateo stated that quote

i am sure that the cave of the higher beings with all their valuable treasures will be found sooner or later however to

rediscover the metal library depends on the mysterious inhabitants and guardians

of the underground world without their consent it would be impossible to find it and quote

so there you have it one day the truth and treasures of inner earth may be discovered

but only if the gods below allow it and perhaps that's for the best they are the

inhabitants after all and it's comforting to know that those who still seek the treasure today

do so without greed but with the utmost respect for the natural environment and the indigenous people

in fact where treasure hunting is eileen's hobby conservation of these fragile ecosystems

and native cultures is her everyday mission some things are far more valuable than

gold or even hidden truths but as for me and you our search for inner earth continues

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