The strange people of Mount Shasta
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In the late nineteenth century, for several decades, a rumor spread that a group of strange people, who kept carefully away from the local population, had settled near Mount Shasta in California. It was said that these people would make sudden appearances in town to trade gold nuggets or gold dust for necessities. Tall, graceful, and agile, these strangers had high foreheads and long curly hair. They wore curious garments, including a sort of headdress adorned with a flap descending from the forehead to the bridge of the nose. From time to time, bright lights could be seen in the forest, and extraordinary music could be heard. When a villager came too close, he was invariably driven back by “a very tall man, his face hidden, who would grab the intruder by the collar and send him back where he came from.” Those who appeared in town, particularly in Weed, according to Wishar Cervé, spoke perfect English with a hint of a British accent. They did not seem
willing to answer questions. The goods they purchased were always paid for in gold nuggets, whose value was far greater than the purchase made, and they refused to accept change, claiming that gold had no value to them and that they did not need money. Other overly curious visitors claimed to have been temporarily struck with paralysis. All attempts to approach this mysterious tribe remained without effect. The foreigners fled or seemed to disappear into the air. In the early twentieth century, it was also said that cars refused to move in the vicinity of the area inhabited by these foreigners—a frequent characteristic of this type of encounter. “When a light came on,” Cervé commented in 1931, “automobiles would stop, as if the electrical circuit no longer worked.” Other witnesses spoke of strange animals, different from any they had ever seen before, which fled at their approach. Some also claimed to have seen flying objects: “Hundreds of people claim to have noticed curious vessels floating in the air. Some claim that they landed on the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and continued their course on the water. Others saw them take off again to head for the islands. Recently, a group of golfers, near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, clearly saw a silver vessel rise into the sky and disappear behind the ridges. This very particular aircraft did not resemble any known model, and no engine noise could be heard. Did this mysterious tribe come from the lost continent of Lemuria, as Cervé and the Rosicrucians suppose, or from another planet? It is very difficult to answer this question.”