Maybe they were just looking to sell newspapers, but it was quite an intriguing headline even for today, not to mention the 1930’s.  On January 29, 1934, a journalist named Jean Bosquet from the Los Angeles Times featured a scathing headline “Lizard People’s Catacomb City Hunted,” which told the tale of how geophysicist mining engineer Warren LuFelt was searching for the lost underground city and legendary treasures of the fabled lizard people believed by some to have lived under downtown L.A.  

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The island of Malta in the Mediterranean has a long, violent and mysterious history. Under the island is a huge network of underground tunnels.  Many of which are yet to be explored. But since the 1940’s, children have been reported missing and echoing screams have been heard in the many chambers, though none of those children have ever been found.  But that’s not all that’s strange about these tunnels. 

During the Crusades, the island was guarded and protected from the many invasive outside forces by a highly-skilled, elite group of knights. The Ottoman Empire, attempting to gain control of the Mediterranean, wanted the island for themselves and tried to invade. But these skilled knights managed to fight off this force for many years even though they were outnumbered nearly 6 to 1. And, along with other forces in Europe, the empire was eventually defeated. But the knights remained there and were rumored to have been guarding many secrets inside the network of underground tunnels underneath this tiny island nation. These secrets may have included loot from the Ottomans and the Crusades, but the caverns have many more stories to tell.

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