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Rumor has it that red-eyed lizard people are living in the Los Angeles mega-dungeon, what is going on?

In 1933, George Warren Shuffield, a mining engineer in Los Angeles, heard a story from the Hopi (Native Americans)

By MejraPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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The origin of the "Lizard Man" story

The story tells of a race of people called "Lizardmen" who, 5,000 years ago, built three large underground cities along the Pacific coast, one of which was located under Los Angeles.

Because of this story, Schofield began to search for the underground cities of Los Angeles.

1934 Los Angeles Times "Hunt for Lizardmen's Underground Catacombs Cities"

This 1934 newspaper article tells of an underground city laid out in the shape of a lizard, with its head underneath from northeast Los Angeles and its tail underneath the downtown Los Angeles library.

According to the article's author, ancient builders were more intellectually advanced than modern humans, using chemicals to dig tunnels through the rock and constructing huge domed caves that could house a thousand families.

This underground city had additional tunnels leading to the ocean, and the ebb and flow of the sea allowed air to enter this underground city.

In 1934, Schofield announced the discovery of some tunnels and a treasure chamber containing gold items under Moore's Hill in Los Angeles.

After obtaining funding for the excavation, Schofield obtained permission from the authorities (agreeing to share the value of his discovery with the county), and he was allowed to drill a 350-foot (106-meter) shaft.

However, the work was interrupted by collapse problems, and later investors and media attention subsided and the project ended completely.

Hunting lizardmen in the catacombs

George Warren Schofield

Shortly thereafter, Schofield disappeared from the public eye and died in 1957, and was buried in North Hollywood.

Los Angeles Times Selects Fake News

A 2018 Los Angeles Times article headlined "Here are our own "Fake News Awards" for the fakest news ever, starring ...... us!" The article about the Lizardman dungeon, published in 1934 by the newspaper itself, was fake news.

1988 Lizardman Sighting

The version of the story goes like this: Late one night in 1988, Christopher Davis, then 17, was driving near the Scape Mine Swamp when his tire leaked, so he got out of his car to change it.

Suddenly in the shadows appeared a green creature covered with scales, which was about 2.1 meters in height, with three fingers and red eyes.

The creature ran over and attacked his car when he panicked and drove away.

Since that day, many sightings of the lizard man have followed, and folklore about the creature has left a permanent mark in Lee County, South Carolina.

The famous Lacerta file

The Lacerta File purports to be a transcript of an interview with a female lizard-man conducted by a Swedish journalist named Ole k in December 1999 and April 2000.

The English version begins with a note that the file was translated from the "Rufet Laut us!" Christian magazine website.

It was translated and edited by German Chris Pfeiler under the German name Federico Dezi Teutonic, which means that he made later changes to the content.

How did the Lyserta archive come about? The reason is that this guy has always had a dream to publish an electronic magazine about UFOs and paranormal phenomena on the Internet, and one day he received the German text "Lacerta File I" from a journalist on the Internet.

The journalist asked him to translate and publish it in the e-zine. Not being stupid, he read the text and realized that it was a novel full of errors in time as well as in science, but he decided to translate it into nine issues and keep part of the content to be explained in the second part.

Although at the beginning of the article he warned readers not to take it too seriously, he realized that some gullible and emotional readers would be brainwashed by the Lacerta files.

The word "Lacerta" (generally called "Lacerta" in Chinese) has since been translated into various languages, and no one wants to verify its origin.

In December 2000, he was forced to shut down his website due to his academic commitments, but rumors and myths were added to the previous version, and eventually, the conspiracy theorists made it worse and worse.

This guy had to come out and explain that the "Lacerta Files" were a hoax, as detailed in the tenth issue of his e-zine.

Here's what he wrote in the magazine.

Welcome to the tenth issue of the Ufo+Psi Research magazine, with a special look at my explanation of the Lyserta file, especially document 9.

Of course, it's a hoax!

The interviewer, who has no background and whose origins are unknown, goes by the name of Mr. K.

Lizardman Story Exploited by Conspiracy Theorists

David Icke of the UK is the originator of the conspiratorialization of lizard people with his 1998 book, The Biggest Secret.

In his book, Icke describes it this way.

"Races with the same bloodlines have controlled the Earth for thousands of years."

The book states that blood-sucking reptiles from extraterrestrial origins have controlled Earth for centuries and even created the Illuminati (a fictional organization of world leaders that conspiracy theorists claim controls the world).

Icke's conspiracy theory about "reptiles" is similar to the "blood libel" conspiracy theory.

The blood libel refers to the widespread persecution of Jews as "Christian murderers" and "devils" in the Middle and Late Middle Ages (11th-14th centuries) when they were forced to live in ghettos when they were accused of poisoning rivers and wells during disease epidemics, and when they were falsely accused of murder. They were accused of poisoning rivers and wells during disease epidemics, and they were falsely accused of killing Christian children and drinking their blood.

So Ike was accused of being an anti-Semite.

A 2013 Public Policy Polling survey on conspiracy theories found that 12 million Americans, or 4% of respondents, believe that "lizard people control the government.

In March 2013, a video on the oil tube claimed that the president had a "creepy racial secret service.

In 2013, Caitlin Hayden, then chief spokesperson for the National Security Council, said in an interview with Wired magazine.

"In an automatic deficit reduction plan, any program that supposedly uses aliens or robots to defend the president may have to be scaled back or eliminated,"

Hayden was referring to a plan by Congress to cut defense funding.

Adverse Consequences of the Lizardman Story

December 25, 2020 Explosion in Nashville, Tennessee

An RV exploded in downtown Nashville on the morning of Dec. 25, 2020, injuring three people and damaging 41 buildings.

Anthony Warner, 63, who was responsible for the explosion, died himself in the blast.

Before the explosion, Warner sent a package to a friend that included letters claiming that "lizard people" were controlling the world, according to WTVF.

According to WTVF, the packages included several pages of printed documents about the Lizardman conspiracy theory and two USB flash drives.

Thus, the "lizard people" story is being used by conspiracy theorists and has already led to violence in the real world.

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