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	Grapefruit Moon Gallery: The Shaver Mystery Magazine Pulp Cover
		The Shaver Mystery Magazine, for which this painting was created, is one of the most fascinating outgrowths of the early science fiction/pulp movement of the 1940s-1950s.
		Shaver claimed first-hand knowledge of the Dero and their caves, insisting he had been a prisoner for several years.
		Shaver's rambling manuscripts were rewritten by Arnold, both to make them more readable, and to remove or downplay most of the explicit sexual content.
	grapefruitmoongallery.com /pulpandpaperback/305.shtml (851 words)

	Eerie Underground Bases Of The Star Gods & The Controversial Shaver Mystery
		Shaver informed his readers that the Elder Race was not without its sensualists, and certain of its members, particularly, the lesser ones, varied greatly in morality and intelligence.
		Shaver believed that the greatest danger to humankind lay in the uncomfortable fact that the Dero had access to the "mech" of the Elder Race's super science, but they did not have the requisite intelligence or the highly developed moral sense needed to handle the powerful machines responsibly.
		Shaver went on to declare that the Dero were little more than sadistic idiots who have taken enormous delight in precipitating many of our surface wars, arranging terrible accidents for select members of humankind, and even in creating nightmares, as they train "dream mech " on unsuspecting humans as they sleep.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Shadowlands/6583/under002.html (2136 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Richard Sharpe Shaver
		The controversy stemmed from the fact that Shaver and his editor/publisher Ray Palmer claimed Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true.
		Between 1945 and 1949, letters poured in attesting to the truth of Shaver's claims (tens of thousands of letters, according to Palmer): the correspondents, too, had heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the hollow Earth.
		Shaver's Dero have also appeared in SubGenius mythology and are prominent in the work of artist Jermaine Rogers.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Dero (560 words)

	Richard S. Shaver Article, RichardShaver Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The controversy stemmed from the fact that Shaver and his editor/publisher Ray Palmer claimed Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction,were fundamentally true.
		Shaver's stories—and all they claimed to explain—were promoted by Palmer as "The Shaver Mystery." Shaver wrote of tremendously advanced pre-historic races who had built caverncities inside Earth before abandoning Earth for another planet.
		Between 1945 and 1949, letters poured in attesting to the truth of Shaver's claims (tens of thousands of letters, according to Palmer): the correspondents, too, had heard strange voices or encountereddenizens of the hollow Earth.
	www.anoca.org /he/stories/richard_s_shaver.html (400 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Shaver Mystery and the 'Truth' about Earth's Past
		Shaver declared that he had unlocked the secrets of an ancient lost civilisation, and offered his interpretation of the alphabet as evidence.
		The peak of Shaverism occurred with the June 1947 issue, which was entirely devoted to 'The Shaver Mystery'.
		Shaver, buried in his belief like a dero in a cave, continued to write and believe in his discovery, with less and less attention.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A676244 (1744 words)

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		Shaver was an avid reader of Amazing Stories, the least respectable and oldest pulp magazine in the science fiction world.
		Some backed up Shaver with their own stories of encounters beneath the earth; some pointed out the entrance portals; others warned Palmer that he was playing with death.
		Shaver blamed Franklin Roosevelt's death and the rise of Hitler on the deros.
	www.farshores.org /ufo05sha.htm (1778 words)

	New age / alien abduction / richard sharpe shaver
		Shaver's stories were promoted by Palmer as "The Shaver Mystery".
		Both Shaver and Palmer are said to have been in contact with a former Bavarian Gauleiter who was also a member of the occult society.
		The relative success of "The Shaver Mystery" in acquiring adherents from science fiction fandom may have influenced L. Ron Hubbard to invent Dianetics and promote it via SF magazines.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/richard_sharpe_shaver.htm (514 words)

	AR17 - THE HOLLOW EARTH: REALITY OR MYTH
		However, Shaver tells his readers, the Elder Race was not without its sensualists, and certain of its members, particularly the lesser ones, varied greatly in morality and intelligence.
		According to Shaver, the ancient myths and legends are the unsophisticated surface dwellers' version of the myriad activities of the Elder Race.
		According to Shaver, the details of some of these grotesque debaucheries reached the surface world and established the foundations for the accounts of devils, demons, and the underworld hells of religion.
	www.atlantisrising.com /issue17/HollowEarthMyth.html (2255 words)

	A Curiosity in History
		Although "The Shaver Mystery" series was presented for the most part as fact, it is far more akin to the science fiction of its time, both in execution and in sources, than most realize; and, taken as fiction, the stories do have intrinsic interest and merit.
		Shaver, however, apparently believed completely his visit to the caves, in the voices that spoke to him from underground, and in what those voices told him.
		There is a kind of Stapledonian scope to Shaver, a sense of epic and mythic, panoramas; the races, societies, and technologies with which he populates his universe are varied and often impressive.
	www.softcom.net /users/vtown/curiosity.html (723 words)

	A WARNING TO FUTURE MAN
		Shaver claimed to have had actual physical contact with members of a cavern-dwelling society known as the Teros, humans like us who were at war with another subterranean race of degenerate man-beasts known as the Deros.
		According to Shaver, after the Deros had wiped out the underground community with which he was involved, he never again visited "the caves" in a physical sense, however he claimed that following this he began receiving "messages" via the "telaugs", or electronically enhanced focused telepathic augmentation beams, claiming to be from the "Teros".
		However with the "Shaver Mystery" in full swing in the pages of AMAZING STORIES magazine, such people were provided with the ideal sounding-board for them to air their experiences, whether it be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd hand information.
	www.angelfire.com /ut/branton/shaver.html (901 words)

	Grey Lodge Occult Review :: The Flying Saucer Mythos ::
		Shaver's long, rambling letter claimed that while he was welding (4) he heard voices which explained to him how the underground Deros were controlling life on the surface of the earth through the use of fiendish rays.
		Somehow the news of Shaver's discovery quickly spread beyond science fiction circles and people who had never before bought a pulp magazine were rushing to their local newsstands.
		Shaver's (Palmer's) contribution to that issue was a 30,000 word novelette, "Earth Slaves to Space," dealing with spaceships that regularly visited the Earth to kidnap humans and haul them away to some other planet.
	www.greylodge.org /occultreview/glor_005/saucermythos.htm (4239 words)

	Richard Shaver And His Legacy....
		The Shaver Mystery was a far-out cosmology of underworld civilizations, mind control, government conspiracy, and evil intent.
		Although Wight and his caving companions were not Shaver, Palmer, or Marcoux admirers, in 1966, long after the hoopla of the Shaver Mystery had faded, the team wrote to Palmer with an unbelievable discovery, which brought no response.
		Shaver had always warned that the cavern world was hidden for good reason, and that cavern dwellers liked to keep it that way.
	www.anti-state.com /forum/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=15660 (3141 words)

	Shaver Mystery Art
		Many of Shaver's ante-Deluvian paintings appeared in Ray Palmer's final Shaver Mystery book, The Secret World (as opposed to Palmer'sThe Hidden World).
		The second half of that 1975 publication detailed Shaver's "Rock Books," and was illustrated profusely with colour plates of rock slices and paintings of what Shaver saw in the rocks.
		This page is a homage to Shaver's time spent as an artist.
	www.softcom.net /users/vtown/shaverart.html (172 words)

	Palmer, Raymond A.
		Shaver's long, rambling letter claimed that while he was welding (4) he heard voices which explained to him how the underground Deros were controlling life on the surface of the earth through the use of fiendish rays.
		Somehow the news of Shaver's discovery quickly spread beyond science fiction circles and people who had never before bought a pulp magazine were rushing to their local newsstands.
		Shaver's (Palmer's) contribution to that issue was a 30,000 word novelette, "Earth Slaves to Space," dealing with spaceships that regularly visited the Earth to kidnap humans and haul them away to some other planet.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /bb/palmer.htm (4199 words)

	DELAWARE'S UNDERGROUND
		Shaver told of his experiences where he would "hear peoples thoughts" while working on a certain arc welding machine at an auto plant in Detroit.
		The "Shaver Mystery" DID however provoke much feedback from others who recounted similar experiences with the underground realm, however the highly occultic "messages" that Shaver continued to receive for years afterwards led many to become entangled in deeply occultic practices and belief systems and also paranoid schizophrenic behaviors.
		The "group" of voices which were being channeled through Shaver were matter-of-factly discussing the murder and dismemberment of a woman within "the caves", and one of the "voices" was stating -- according to Palmer -- that such things should not be taking place.
	www.think-aboutit.com /Underground/DELAWAREUNDERGROUND.htm (411 words)

	Hollow Earth - SKYGAZE - Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		The idea that the earth possesses a hollow interior which houses an underground civilization is an old one the widespread religious belief in hell is one expression of this notion-but the first American to try to prove it was the eccentric John Cleves Symmes (1779-1829).
		Until Richard Sharpe Shaver came along, nearly all nineteenth- and twentieth-century hollowearth proponents spoke of the inner world's inhabitants as members of an advanced, benevolent race whom it would be desirable for human beings to meet and befriend.
		Shaver alleged that for years he was tormented by evil creatures known as "deros"-short for "detrimental robots" (who were not robots as the term is ordinarily understood but "robots" in the sense of being slaves to their passions).
	www.skygaze.com /content/strange/HollowEarth.shtml (2244 words)

	IS THE EARTH HOLLOW? - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		Shaver said that he had spent several weeks living under the ground with demon-looking aliens, whose descriptions can be found in ancient legends and fairytales.
		Shaver responded with a 10,000 word document entitled "A Warning to Future Man." Shaver wrote of tremendously advanced pre-historic races who had built cavern cities inside Earth before abandoning Earth for another planet due to damaging radiation from the sun.
		Shaver's rambling manuscripts were rewritten by Palmer, both to make them more readable, and to remove or downplay most of the explicit sexual content.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=92404 (3162 words)

	ThothWeb - What's This? A Shaver Revival?
		Shaver was a longtime fantasy fan and was happy for a chance to break into a profession that promised more than the 83 cents an hour he made at Bethlehem Steel.
		To Shaver, a staunch materialist, this was “dero wool.”
		The Mystery peaked in June 1947, with a special issue loaded with Shaver stories and essays—and a Vincent Gaddis article on spaceship sightings that presaged the flying saucer craze that was soon to follow.
	www.thothweb.com /article633.html (2935 words)

	What's This? A Shaver Revival? by Doug Skinner
		He was never famous in the usual sense of the word, but the “Shaver Mystery” and the “rock books” were once hot topics in certain circles.
		Richard Shaver (he added the “Sharpe” himself later) was born in 1907; he was one of five children.
		Shaver was released from the Ionia State Hospital in Michigan in 1943.
	fatemag.com /issues/2000s/2005-06article1a.html (852 words)

	Crackpot Theories of the Earth Muse - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shaver was working as a welder at a Ford auto plant in Michigan during the 1930s when he began to hear voices in his head.
		Shaver believed that his welding gun was acting as a receiver, allowing him to telepathically listen in to the broadcasted thought-waves of a hideous race of inner-earth inhabitants that he referred to as "Detrimental Robots," or Deros.
		After listening to these voices for many months Shaver came to believe that the Deros were descendants of a technologically advanced society that had once lived on the surface of the earth.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4136/is_200411/ai_n9462930/pg_2 (536 words)

	FarShores.org AncientDimensions Mysteries: Magazine Resurrects 'The Shaver Mystery'
		It was from Shaver, a then-unknown ex-hobo and construction worker who wrote that he'd discovered "Mantong," the lost language of Atlantis, which he claimed was the basis of all earthly tongues.
		When Palmer wrote to Shaver, asking how he'd discovered Mantong, Shaver bombarded the editor with long, semi-coherent letters, explaining that he'd been working at a Detroit auto plant when his welding gun began suddenly picking up the thoughts of his co-workers.
		Shaver, who was probably a paranoid schizophrenic, believed that his writings were simple fact.
	www.farshores.org /ashaver.htm (879 words)

	Cult of the Serpent - part 3
		Shaver alleges that Palmer took his writings and expanded them into a science-fiction-occult format so that the original essay would be acceptable to his science-fiction audience and gain wider exposure.
		Even though Shaver was apparently convinced that the stories he received via mental projection or the so-called "thought-machines" were true, they nevertheless contained many occult, confused and contradictory ideas even before he sent them on to Palmer.
		It is uncertain whether Shaver intended to describe the "dero" as a runaway race of antediluvian, perhaps infernally controlled, self-perpetuating androids; or as non-human reptilian beings; or as a race of mind- controlled human sorcerers.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sm4csi/nwo/nwoterrorism/SecretSocieties.Cult.of.the.Serpent_part3.htm (3615 words)

	David Hatcher Childress Books
		Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth is Childress’ thorough examination of the early hollow earth books of Richard Shaver and the fascination that fringe fantasy subjects such as lost continents and the hollow earth have had for the American public.
		Shaver’s rare 1948 book I Remember Lemuria is reprinted in its entirety, and the book is packed with illustrations from Ray Palmer’s Amazing Stories issues of the 1940s.
		Palmer and Shaver told of tunnels running through the earth—tunnels inhabited by the Deros and Teros, humanoids from an ancient spacefaring race that had inhabited the earth, eventually going underground, hundreds of thousands of years ago.
	www.onelight.com /hollow/library/childress%20.htm (297 words)

	Richard Sharpe Shaver
		The Shavery Mystery Clubs had a surprising degree of longevity: The Shaver Mystery was discussed on John Nebel's popular radio show several times through the late 1950s; Nebel thought the discussion was entertaining, but in extant recordings, he was also openly skeptical about the entire subject.
		Despite this fact, Palmer would insist that he thought the Shaver Mystery was genuine, though he suggested it occurred in a psychic, astral way rather than in everyday physical reality.
		A variant of the Shaver Mystery, with good and bad space aliens influencing humanity, is found in the UFO books of mid-1950s author Morris K. Jessup.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Richard_Sharpe_Shaver (2451 words)

	SS4c.html
		Shaver's delusions are the dark and cloudy glass through which we see the myths at the end of history; his obsessions mirror the concerns of us all, and as we look into his private abyss, our fears and hopes as a species emerges out of the emptiness.
		Shaver's work is not fact, it is not even true; it is real, in the way only the right myth at the right moment can be real.
		He had the mysterious source of the night before on the phone, and wanted to confirm who was in the room at that moment.
	www.sangraal.com /AMET/research/SS4c.html (4233 words)

	snarkout: there's a world going on underground
		It seems like Palmer believed, or at least half-believed, what he was writing (1, 2), but whether or not the Shaver Mystery was a deliberate hoax was beside the point.
		Shaver's voluminous output, shaped into some semblence of cohesive narrative by Palmer, introduced a new current.
		Shaver continued to produce a flood of Shavernalia for Palmer's pulp magazines.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2003/03/08 (763 words)

	Obscurantist: Richard Sharpe Shaver (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With Ray Palmer, Richard Sharpe Shaver revealed/created the The Shaver Mystery.
		According to Shaver, humans were constantly suffering the dastardly evilness of the Dero who used the advanced technology of their decayed and decadent race for hideous sexual torture and mundane acts of petty prankery.
		In later years, Shaver made “rock paintings” consisting of slices of rock, which he said revealed the patterns left by the dero.
	www.obscurantist.com /oma/shaver_richard?DokuWiki=57eb47a17d028d8db86a3ccec5feaf48 (168 words)

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