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Today we're talking the Shaver Mysteries! A proto-meme or creepypasta that prefigures everything from DnD's Underdark to PizzaGate.

Sources

• ​“Reality –Is it a Horror?”: Richard Shaver's Subterranean World and the Displaced Self, Gabe McKee, Journal of Gods and Monsters
• ​Toronto, Richard, The Shaver Mystery. Fate, March 1998
• ​Keel, John, "The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers" ; Fortean Times, 1983.
• ​Dan Loxton’s Junior Skeptic Hollow Earth coverage Part 1 and Part 2 
• ​Monstertalk Episodes 192 and 193
• ​War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Paperback – Illustrated, April 25, 2013