Mount Shasta: Mystery Mountain and Sacred Destination

Mount Shasta is not the tallest or most beautiful mountain in the Cascade Range; but it is the most legendary. In terms of weirdness and strangeness, the unusual stories surrounding the mountain will challenge any other region in the contiguous United States, or perhaps even the world. According to the Sacramento Bee newspaper, over 100 cults from all over the world trace their origins back to Mount Shasta.

Mount Shasta’s Underground Dwellers

In a government-funded study, 89 percent of visitors questioned admitted that they came to Mount Shasta to worship the gods and alien beings believed to dwell in the Hollow Earth beneath the mountain–who are frequently referred to as the mountain’s “Underground Dwellers”.

Most of the odd stories surrounding Mount Shasta can be traced back to a book called A Dweller On Two Planets first published in 1906, written by a teenager, Frederick S. Oliver who was living in Yreka, California, during the gold-rush era. Oliver’s book contains the first published references linking Mount Shasta to a mystical brotherhood of “spiritual adepts”; a tunnel entrance to a secret city beneath Mount Shasta;  Lemuria; the concept of “I AM”; and also the “channeling” of disincarnate spirits.