Inner Earth Conspiracy Theories #3

Inner Earth Conspiracy Theories #3: A Detailed Outline

I. Introduction (0:01 - 1:10) * A. Video Sponsorship (0:01) * 1. Sponsored by Masterworks. * B. Episode Topic (0:01) * 1. Ancient artifacts found in Ecuadorian cave system. * 2. Artifacts resemble Babylonian and Middle Eastern cultures. * 3. Gold books, statues, and a crystal sarcophagus were found. * 4. Neil Armstrong led an expedition to find the artifacts in 1976. * C. Welcome and Introduction (0:37) * 1. Host: Mr. Mythos * 2. Focus on strange and ancient mysteries. * D. Call to Action (1:10) * 1. Request to like, subscribe, and share.

II. Masterworks Sponsorship Segment (1:10 - 3:38) * A. Art as an Investment (1:10) * 1. Anecdote about a couple who bought a Basquiat painting in 1984 for $20,000 and sold it in 2017 for $110 million. * 2. Comparison to potential S&P 500 returns. * B. Masterworks Platform (1:45) * 1. Democratizes art investment by allowing purchase of shares in multi-million dollar artworks. * 2. Masterworks manages the art and its sale. * 3. Offers a secondary market for shares. * C. Host's Investment (2:21) * 1. Mr. Mythos owns shares of Banksy's "Sunflowers from Petrol Station" through Masterworks. * D. Art Market Performance (2:21) * 1. Art as a diversification strategy. * 2. Citibank report: Art has the lowest stock market correlation. * 3. Art prices outperformed the S&P 500 by 174% from 1995 to 2020. * E. Call to Action (2:58) * 1. Skip the Masterworks waitlist by using the link in the description.

III. Father Crespi and the Metal Library (3:38 - 10:58) * A. Father Crespi's Background (3:38) * 1. Italian Catholic priest. * 2. 60 years of humanitarian work in Ecuador. * 3. Studied anthropology and natural sciences. * 4. Passion for helping others. * B. Humanitarian Work in Cuenca (4:15) * 1. Missionary work and community service in Cuenca, Ecuador. * 2. Provided food, shelter, education, and support to the community. * 3. Highly respected and beloved figure. * C. The Shuar Tribe and the Gifts (5:25) * 1. Extended humanitarian work to the Shuar tribe in the Amazon rainforest. * 2. Received golden artifacts as gifts from the Shuar. * 3. The Shuar claimed to have found the artifacts in an underground cave. * D. The Metal Library (6:37) * 1. Accumulated over 50,000 artifacts, including metal plates. * 2. Majority of plates were crude fakes made by the Shuar. * 3. A subset of plates were made of gold and appeared authentic. * E. Out-of-Place Artifacts (7:56) * 1. Symbols and depictions on the gold plates resembled Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and East Asian cultures. * 2. Unrecognizable written language. * F. Crespi's Museum (9:07) * 1. Established a museum to house the artifacts. * 2. Attracted attention from academics and officials. * G. Richard Wingate's Observations (9:44) * 1. American explorer who documented the collection. * 2. Believed the collection to be of immense historical value. * 3. Noted the presence of artifacts from diverse cultures. * H. Crespi's Theories (10:23) * 1. Suggested the artifacts were antediluvian (pre-flood). * 2. Challenged mainstream historical views.

IV. Theories and Speculations (10:58 - 15:51) * A. Ancient Alien Theory (10:58) * 1. Extraterrestrial influence on ancient civilizations. * 2. Explains the crossover of cultural motifs and mythologies. * B. Inner Earth Theory (12:10) * 1. Legends of underground cities in various cultures. * 2. Agartha: a network of tunnels connecting inner earth civilizations. * 3. Harold Wilkins' claims about underground civilizations in America. * C. Indigenous American Myths (13:52) * 1. Native American creation myths involving emergence from the earth. * 2. Examples from Central and South America. * D. Connecting the Theories (15:13) * 1. Possibility of an ancient inner-earth civilization leaving artifacts in Ecuador.

V. The Fire and the Sale (15:51 - 24:39) * A. Museum Fire (15:51) * 1. Fire in 1962 destroyed many artifacts. * 2. Cause of fire remains inconclusive. * 3. Suspicion of theft and arson. * B. Crespi's Death and the Sale (17:42) * 1. Crespi died in 1982. * 2. Collection sold to the Central Bank of Ecuador in 1979. * 3. Sale price: 10 million sucres (approximately $400,000 USD today). * 4. Only 6,500 "legitimate and precious" objects were included in the sale. * C. Disappearance of the Artifacts (20:58) * 1. Artifacts were not displayed or researched after the sale. * 2. Effectively disappeared for 37 years. * D. Ancient Origins Investigation (21:34) * 1. Attempted to locate the collection in 2016. * 2. Found most artifacts in poor condition and disorganized. * 3. Key artifacts, including the gold plates, were missing. * E. Missing Artifacts (22:54) * 1. Gold carvings, hieroglyphs, and Sumerian figures were missing. * 2. Suspicion of Vatican involvement.

VI. The Tios Caves and the Shuar (24:39 - 29:09) * A. Tios Caves (24:39) * 1. Vast underground network beneath the Amazon rainforest. * 2. Considered sacred by the Shuar. * 3. Believed to be inhabited by powerful spirits. * B. Shuar Mythology (25:19) * 1. Nun Kui: ascended goddess residing in the upper levels of the caves. * 2. Sunki: lesser male god created by Nun Kui. * 3. Cave of the Higher Beings: deeper level inhabited by spirits. * C. Nun Kui's Lair (28:34) * 1. A room filled with gold and gemstones. * 2. Shuar warn against entering. Model the electric correctly. The people they don't model are the people who have never showed up before the ones they call them sometimes they're zer? 

VII. Juan Moricz and the Metal Library (29:09 - 36:10) (Cont.) * B. Legal Claim and Collaboration (31:50) * 1. Moricz sought legal ownership of the discovery. * 2. Partnered with lawyer Gerardo Pena Mateos. * 3. Submitted a claim to the Ecuadorian government in 1969. * C. Eric von Däniken and "Gold of the Gods" (34:18) * 1. Moricz met with ancient astronaut theorist Eric von Däniken. * 2. Von Däniken's book "Gold of the Gods" (1973) described an expedition to the Tios Caves with Moricz. * 3. Moricz claimed von Däniken fabricated the expedition. * 4. Von Däniken admitted to using "dramatic effect."

VIII. Stanley Hall and the 1976 Expedition (36:10 - 47:38) * A. Stanley Hall's Interest (36:10) * 1. Scottish civil engineer inspired by von Däniken's book. * 2. Made finding the metal library his mission. * B. The 1976 Expedition (37:29) * 1. Organized a large-scale expedition with 120 members. * 2. Included British and Ecuadorian officials, special forces, scientists, and Neil Armstrong. * 3. Neil Armstrong's involvement sparked by family connection and interest in the unknown. * C. Shuar Interaction and Warnings (39:26) * 1. Shuar initially resistant to the expedition. * 2. Became more receptive after meeting Neil Armstrong. * 3. Warned about the dangers of the caves and the "intra-terrestrials." * D. Expedition Findings (42:39) * 1. Explored the Tios Caves for 35 days. * 2. Mapped 10 miles of the cave system. * 3. Discovered new species and ancient artifacts. * 4. Did not find the metal library. * E. Deception and Conspiracy (44:00) * 1. Shuar elder revealed the expedition explored the wrong cave. * 2. Suspicion of military extraction of artifacts. * 3. Concealment of information and evidence. * F. Neil Armstrong's Role (46:27) * 1. Speculation about Armstrong's involvement in concealing evidence of ancient civilizations on the moon and in inner earth. * 2. Possible government orders to suppress information.

IX. The Search Continues (47:38 - 58:50) * A. The Cave of the Higher Beings (47:38) * 1. Rumor of a different cave system containing the metal library. * 2. Renewed hope for Hall. * B. Juan Moricz's Death (48:13) * 1. Moricz died in 1991 under suspicious circumstances. * 2. Expressed paranoia about kidnapping and assassination attempts. * C. Petronio Jaramillo (49:26) * 1. Hall identified Moricz's anonymous source as Petronio Jaramillo. * 2. Jaramillo claimed to have seen the metal library in 1946. * 3. Described the contents in detail. * D. Jaramillo's Account (51:54) * 1. Golden toys, animal figures, and a gold skeleton. * 2. Half-human, half-animal figures. * 3. Libraries filled with heavy gold books. * 4. Unintelligible script and symbols. * E. Failed Expedition and Jaramillo's Death (54:34) * 1. Hall and Jaramillo planned an expedition in 1995. * 2. Expedition postponed due to the Cenepa War. * 3. Jaramillo murdered in 1998. * F. Legacy and Continued Search (55:53) * 1. Hall continued promoting the story until his death in 2008. * 2. His daughter, Eileen Hall Muñoz, carries on his work. * 3. Gerardo Mateos remains a believer in the metal library.

X. Conclusion (58:17 - 58:50) * A. Respect for the Shuar and the Environment (58:17) * 1. Importance of respecting the Shuar people and their territory. * 2. Emphasis on conservation and cultural preservation. * B. Call to Action (58:50) * 1. Invitation to watch other videos in the "Inner Earth" playlist. * 2. Request for Patreon support.

XI. Abstract Facts and Obscure Opinions * A. The Shuar's belief in powerful spirits inhabiting the Tios Caves. * B. The Shuar mythology surrounding Nun Kui and Sunki. * C. Juan Moricz's paranoia and claims of kidnapping attempts. * D. The possibility of Neil Armstrong being involved in a cover-up of ancient civilizations on the moon. * E. The belief that the "intra-terrestrials" possess advanced technology.

XII. Opposing Opinion * A. Skepticism towards the existence of the metal library. * B. The belief that the artifacts were fabricated or misinterpreted. * C. The possibility that the stories are elaborate hoaxes or misinterpretations of natural formations.

XIII. Summarized Essay

Deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon, whispers of a hidden civilization and a treasure trove of enigmatic artifacts have captivated adventurers and researchers for decades. The story revolves around Father Crespi, a humble priest who received thousands of peculiar objects from the Shuar tribe, including gold plates bearing symbols reminiscent of ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, and even extraterrestrial cultures. These artifacts, dubbed the "metal library," were said to originate from a vast network of caves beneath the jungle, guarded by the Shuar and inhabited by powerful spirits.

The mystery deepened when a fire destroyed Crespi's museum, and the remaining collection vanished after its sale to the Central Bank of Ecuador. Intrigued explorers, including Neil Armstrong, ventured into the depths of the Tios Caves, seeking the legendary metal library. Despite extensive efforts, the treasure remained elusive, leading to theories of deliberate deception and government cover-ups.

Juan Moricz, a Hungarian speleologist, claimed to have found the library in a secret chamber, but his accounts were shrouded in controversy and his untimely death left more questions than answers. Another key figure, Petronio Jaramillo, emerged as the alleged guardian of the true location, but he too met a tragic end before revealing its secrets.

Despite numerous expeditions and investigations, the metal library remains an enigma, fueling speculation about ancient civilizations, inner earth realms, and the possibility of hidden knowledge deliberately kept from the public. Whether a product of overactive imaginations or a genuine archaeological marvel, the legend of the metal library continues to inspire awe and wonder, reminding us that some mysteries may forever remain buried beneath the surface.

XIV. Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Masterworks Sponsorship Segment
3. Father Crespi and the Metal Library
4. Theories and Speculations
5. The Fire and the Sale
6. The Tios Caves and the Shuar
7. Juan Moricz and the Metal Library
8. Stanley Hall and the 1976 Expedition
9. The Search Continues
10. Conclusion
11. Abstract Facts and Obscure Opinions
12. Opposing Opinion
13. Summarized Essay
14. Table of Contents

Inner Earth Conspiracy Theories #3 - YouTube

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(00:01) this video is sponsored by masterworks we're back with another episode of inner earth conspiracies and today we'll be digging up a treasure trove of ancient artifacts from what seemed to be an unknown culture resembling babylon of the ancient middle east except these were found on the wrong hemisphere in a deep and sprawling tunnel system beneath the amazon jungle in ecuador this included massive books made of gold gemstone encrusted statues of gods and even a crystal sarcophagus in fact this treasure was so baffling

(00:37) that even the astronaut neil armstrong led a search for it in 1976 making the first man to walk on the moon possibly one of the first to step foot into a lost underground kingdom this is truly an indiana jones type of inner earth conspiracy so put on your adventuring hat and grab a torch hey fellow seekers welcome i'm mr mythos if you're a fan of strange and ancient mysteries with research so deep you're guaranteed to fall down the rabbit hole you're in the right place i humbly ask that you give this video a

(01:10) like and ding the notifications bell so you don't miss any of the rare info we'll be digging into every video and if you love it please share this series with a friend this video is about ancient treasure but for a minute let me tell you a story about another treasure art it's 1984 new york city a young couple decided by a painting from an up-and-coming street artist to the tune of 20 thousand dollars jump forward to 2017 and if that couple would put their money into the s p 500 instead they would have made 271 thousand

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(03:38) to charitable work in ecuador living among the indigenous people until his death in 1982 he was a highly educated man who studied anthropology at the university of milan and the natural sciences at the university of padua he also earned a doctorate in piano composition however crosby's true passion was helping others in 1923 father crespi was assigned as a missionary to the city of cuenca in ecuador on the edge of the amazon rainforest however he went much further than spreading the catholic religion crosby was an incredible humanitarian

(04:15) who truly improved the lives of the people of cuenca for six decades he fed the hungry and raised funds for those who were impoverished and disabled he set up electric lighting established an orphanage and multiple schools championed education for girls and as a cinema lover he even hosted a weekly film festival but in the everyday life of his neighbors he was simply a true friend who cared deeply for his fellow humans over those 60 years until his death father crosby became perhaps the most beloved and respected person in cuenca

(04:49) today in front of the church of maria auxiliadora there is a statue of father crusty helping a young child many local elders still share stories about his friendship and charity and the city continues to petition the vatican to have father crust be venerated as a catholic saint however this same man unexpectedly became involved in a bizarre archaeological find that involved millions of dollars worth of unbelievably strange artifacts that if authentic would rewrite history as we know it but this did not occur in cuenca

(05:25) see father cruspy didn't limit his humanitarian efforts to just this little town but also to a tribe of indigenous people known as the schwarz far deeper into the jungles of ecuador this was partly due to his passion for learning about culture and traditions but his heart was still the same he helped these schwa tribes people selflessly even living in voluntary poverty with them sleeping on the dirt floor of a small hut with only a blanket covering him for warmth during this time father crosby would actually be the first person to capture

(05:59) the schwarz on film in 1927 which i'll show a short clip of here just like the people of cuenca the schwa recognized crosby as a true and respected friend and they went out of their way to repay his kindness in the best way they knew how through a precious gift however what these tribes people gave to him was quite unexpected it was a golden artifact with odd markings seemingly very ancient obviously this gift lit up his face with a great smile as we know father cruspy had no care for wealth but he knew this was a massive

(06:37) gesture of trust from the tribe and also directly appealed to his anthropological interest but his smile spoke far more than the few words of their language he had learned the shore saw that it made him happy so they brought him more and more this included jewelry pottery statues of animals and gods some made with gold and silver but most oddly he accumulated a collection of oversized rectangular metallic plates to be clear the vast majority of these metal plates were 100 fake impressed with crude depictions by the untrained

(07:15) indigenous people including recognizable symbols wildlife and architecture all of clear modern ecuadorian origin after all the schwa had limited resources and just wanted to make crosby smile which they absolutely did however a small subset of these plates seemed to be authentic unlike the others they were made of gold and were far more complex and it was this section of his metal library as it became known that made crosby realize there was something very off about some of these gifts as an educated anthropologist he noted

(07:56) that certain depictions and symbols were completely different than what was expected in this region perhaps even in the western hemisphere there were noticeable similarities to that of the ancient cultures of babylon and mesopotamia and also that of egypt and far east asia but even stranger was that the golden tablets seemed to reflect a mashup of these cultures alongside an unrecognizable written language when crespi and a translator asked ceshwar where they were getting all these incredible and invaluable artifacts

(08:29) they simply told him that they found them underground in a cave beneath the ecuadorian jungle by the end of it all father cruspy had acquired more than 50 000 objects a truly astonishing amount and easily enough to fill a large museum which is exactly what he did at first he stored them in the courtyard of the maria axilladora church until the vatican granted him permission to start a museum in the salesian school and until 1960 father crosby's collection was actually the largest museum in ecuador countless university and church

(09:07) officials professors archaeologists anthropologists and even politicians came to visit his museum almost curious about the stranger subset of artifacts those that had no clear ecuadorian origin and each of these people had their theories the american explorer richard wingate visited father cruspy during the mid-1970s to photograph the collection and of it he wrote the following quote in a dusty cramped shed on the side porch of the church of maria auxiliadora in cuenca ecuador lies the most valuable archaeological

(09:44) treasure on earth more than one million dollars worth of dazzling gold is cashed here and much silver yet the hard money value of this forgotten horde is not its principal worth there are ancient artifacts identified as assyrian egyptian chinese and african so perfect in workmanship and beauty that any museum director would regard them as first-class acquisitions since this treasure is the strangest collection of ancient archaeological objects in existence its value lies in the historical questions it poses and demands answers

(10:23) to yet it is unknown to historians and deliberately neglected in the journals of orthodox archaeology end quote father crosby himself began speaking more openly about his opinions on the artifacts he felt were genuine and like wingate he believed that there were clear motifs from multiple ancient cultures which the indigenous people would have had little to no knowledge of and therefore couldn't fake allegedly crosby also suggested that these artifacts may be antediluvian that is originating before the event of

(10:58) the great biblical flood written of in the book of genesis obviously these opinions were against the mainstream view of history it was simply impossible for any assyrian egyptian chinese or african people to have been in ecuador some 4 000 years ago it goes against everything we're taught and to suggest a mix of all these ancient cultures that implies something far more profound than some ancient voyage many people like to relate crespi's metal library to the ancient alien theory the idea that extraterrestrials were the

(11:35) ancestors or leaders of the first great civilizations the mesopotamians the egyptians the chinese and the mayans just to name a few and these ancient aliens thus passed on elements of their extraterrestrial culture to these people that would explain why the traditions and mythologies of these cultures often show crossover despite their distance from each other that is because they all derived from the same source and that could explain the mix of cultures shown in crosby's metal plates because they were either made by aliens

(12:10) or one of these original peoples on earth in fact this very theory is what made this mystery famous in a book called gold of the gods by eric von daniken which we'll be getting into a little bit later in this story however i'd like to propose an alternative theory as is the theme of this series inner earth remember the schwa said that these artifacts came from a mysterious cave system somewhere far off in the amazon jungle so why look above when perhaps we should be looking below legends of gods building vast

(12:48) underground cities are found in pretty much every major ancient civilization from egypt to india to china which i've covered in detail in previous videos of mine but as these mythologies have been documented and compared thousands of years later it's become rather apparent that the hidden world spoken of by the ancients may not be completely independent of one another what if they were connected by the way for over a year now i've been working on a rather lengthy book regarding this exact theory and you can

(13:21) read a few early draft chapters of it on my patreon it's called inner earth mythology and the full book should be published by the end of 2022 if you're a longtime fan of the channel you may already be aware of the most enduring sub theory of inner earth and that is of agartha the name of a supposed network of extremely deep hidden tunnels that connect all major inner earth civilizations and this agartha network is believed to run under entire oceans reaching every continent and stretching across the

(13:52) entire world the controversial british historian harold wilkins stated in 1945 that quote tibetan llamas even assert that in america it is not stated whether north south or central they live in vast caves of an underworld reached by secret tunnels peoples of an ancient world and quote this detail given by wilkins is pretty important as i can tell you the americas have perhaps the most consistent legends of inner earth multiple creation myths of indigenous american peoples tell pretty much the same story that the native people emerged outward

(14:36) from the surface of the earth the nihola teca which were seven tribes native to central america asserted that they came from a subterranean ancestral home known as chicomas talk which translates to the place of the seven caves these seven tribes of the nihola teca eventually formed the aztec empire the same narrative is told in north america where the hopi the zuni the pawnee and the creek tribes all share the story that at some point in ancient times a mouth of the earth opened up and their people emerged outward

(15:13) in south america the inca believed that their forefathers came out of caves located east of cusco in peru and similarly the indigenous brazilians claimed that their ancestors exited from a massive underground world while some of their people decided to stay back and remain beneath the earth so if the theory of agartha is true that this ancient and global underground network exists might it also be possible that an ancient inner-earth people left a library of cultural relics beneath ecuador that's the inner-earth link here and

(15:51) while it's a key to unlocking this mystery we're just scratching the surface of the conspiracy see whether or not you believe in the reality of inner earth there is no doubt that something was going on with father crosby's metal library by the end of this story you'll have learned of a string of generational tribal secrets suspicious destruction international government intervention and at least one assassination associated with these artifacts on july 19th 1962 at 1am a sudden fire broke out in father

(16:28) cruspy's museum in the heat of it all the humble priests managed to save many of these precious artifacts however many more were completely destroyed and forever lost this same fire also destroyed cuenca's primary school secondary school and the cinema theater all of which crosby had built to this day the cause of the fire remains inconclusive however several witnesses filed a report with the police that they had seen two people with fuel canteens coming out of a car decades later the ecuadorian ufologist

(17:05) jaime rodriguez who's actually born raised and educated in cuenca investigated this case extensively and concluded that quote some unknown people had robbed golden plates and then had put fire on the crespi museum end quote father cruspy of course was devastated and disturbed by this event and immediately relocated the surviving artifacts to the rooms and hallway of his personal living quarters sensing that these artifacts of potential monumental archaeological value might be in danger he would guard them for the next 15

(17:42) years but he wasn't alone as many citizens voluntarily provided near constant security so neither the artifacts nor crosby would be in danger again father crosby would thankfully be able to live out the rest of his life among the people that he loved without serious worry though he was disappointed that no academic institution had taken the artifact seriously with not even a single study conducted he was at peace knowing that he had tried his best and that god would take it from here on april 30th 1982 father crespi passed away in cuenca from

(18:20) natural causes at the age of 91. the following day a local newspaper would write quote koenka is crying on the day of his death as it had been its dearest son end quote many online articles that discuss this mystery state that crespi's collection was stolen or simply disappeared after his death however that's a slight misconception on august 9 1979 three years before his death the sale of the crespi museum was finalized to the central bank of ecuador the final sale price was 10 million ecuadorian sucrase which with inflation

(19:03) roughly converts to 400 000 us dollars today and part of this money would be used to build a new public school in father cruspy's name however there are a few vital details we must consider first off remember that cruspy never actually owned his collection or the museum these were all technically property of the roman catholic church and they were the ones who made the sale to the central bank of ecuador second cruspy himself was disappointed with the sale in fact he wasn't even aware of it until it happened which he

(19:39) voiced to a journalist of the daily newspaper el tiempo quote i heard by local press that my bosses according to the statutes and monastic laws and commercial agreement of the government have sold the museum to central bank of ecuador for the sum of 10 million sucres and cuenca will receive only 3.5 million sucres for this sale i finished my conversation mr idrovo go with god and quote third the final sale document states quote there was made a strict selection naming those valuable objects six thousand five hundred pieces of the

(20:21) museum recognized as legitimate and precious end quote we already knew that the majority of the fifty thousand artifacts were fake but six thousand five hundred genuine pieces is still a shockingly high amount if you think about it all things considered and inner earth aside there is obviously a massive secret stash of artifacts and treasure that the shore took these objects from just keep that in mind it's not just a rumor or an assumption but really the only reasonable explanation fourth despite having bought all these

(20:58) thousands of artifacts not a single one would ever be displayed subject to testing or research or seen again really so it's true that for 37 years crespi's collection did effectively disappear that was until 2016 though when a team from the publication ancient origins actually flew to ecuador in an attempt to solve this mystery once and for all pretty cool if you ask me but what exactly did they find through a string of meetings and personal references the ancient origins crew were eventually given permission to

(21:34) view crestpiece collection held in the central bank and only under the escort of a team of police they did manage to film it though which i'll be showing as i read quote thousands of artifacts had been carefully catalogued according to their age and the culture they had belonged to figurines ceremonial seats weapons stone carvings ceramics jewelry ancient calculation systems religious icons and even elongated skulls and shrunken human heads but no metallic plates the metallic plates were located at the opposite end of the building complex in

(22:12) a locked storage area of a dilapidated old building we were shocked the metal plates and artifacts were strewn all over the floor thrown in cardboard boxes and gathered in miscellaneous piles it was clear that no value was ascribed to these plates the metallic plates were clearly not made of gold but a soft and pliable metal that more closely resembled aluminum the carvings were crude and in some cases infantile end quote however they ended this article with a problem quote a small subset of artifacts which were photographed and filmed in the 1970s

(22:54) consisting of gold carvings hieroglyphs and sumerian figures is genuinely missing and no one seems to have any answers as to where they are end quote these stranger artifacts the ancient origins team is referring to included the gold and silver plates in crespi's collection as well as certain stone and clay artifacts the problematic pieces of the collection that would rewrite history if deemed authentic the key pieces to the puzzle were missing the team met with an expert on father crosby a senior official at a local

(23:31) cuenca university who wished to remain anonymous according to the team's report quote the official response of the expert was that these artifacts simply went missing never to be found again while initially he said he knew nothing about the location of the missing artifacts later on he said that he was not authorized to talk about them at some point during our discussion we asked the expert about reports that the missing artifacts had been shipped to the vatican in italy his response was not to deny that this took place

(24:05) but to say that he was aware that pieces of art had been sent to the vatican it was quite clear during our conversation that there is something that someone does not want the public to know about end quote father crosby's saga was just the beginning however these missing artifacts are only the surface of a far more treacherous and ancient mystery remember how the schwarz told father crosby that they'd retrieved these artifacts from caves beneath the jungle well though it's not clear whether they revealed the actual location to crosby

(24:39) during his life there's a pretty solid theory that the shore were speaking of cueva de los taos known in english as etios caves the taos caves are a vast natural underground network located beneath the rainforest covered eastern foothills of the andes and the schwarz claim it as their sacred land in fact these shore openly warn that this cave system is inhabited by incredibly powerful spirits who in ancient times granted the shore their role as guardians of the cave this strict guardianship has resulted in

(25:19) violent conflict in the past against gold prospectors and military alike thus the ecuadorian government has opted to completely remove themselves from the area and respects it as schwart territory thus very little of the taos caves has actually been officially explored for as long as any living member of the schware can remember their people have been entering the tio's caves using ladders made of vines through three known entrances one of which is well over 200 feet deep having descended into the darkness

(25:54) they'd light bamboo torches and proceed through networks of caverns for two reasons first to collect baby oil birds which are called tayos in their language hence the name of the caves and second for spiritual and ceremonial purposes to meet with one specific spirit who supposedly resides in the upper levels in a 1976 entry in the diary of juan morris a treasure hunter who will meet soon quote their religious traditions confirm that these caves are the dwelling of their god a supreme being praised by the first

(26:33) inhabitants in eastern ecuador and their descendants their god is eternal but it is unknown if they believe he has a human shape with a body or if he is simply a spirit a soul to whom his children between april and june go down to pay tribute through ceremonies of unknown nature end quote while his description is mostly on point especially regarding the god's possible physical nature morris was wrong about one aspect the god of the schwar is not a he but a shi an ascended goddess known as nun kui in shore mythology nun kui was the very

(27:15) first schwar a woman who was once human however she traveled deep into the taos caves and this act or some unknown event during it transformed nunkui into an almighty goddess and she chose the caves to be your home specifically the upper levels amid a wealth of gold and precious stones and in those taos caves she created a lesser male god named sunki and together they birthed schwar children as well as dogs who then emerged out and onto the surface the mythology continues though as nun kui and sunki went on to host a

(27:56) civilization of inner earth spirits supposedly those of deceased shore in the deeper levels of the taios caves or possibly in another cave system altogether a place called the cave of the higher beings as we'll learn about a bit later regardless nuncui bestowed the shore people the right as the sole guardians of this place an important detail to note is that the schwa warn against venturing into nune kui's personal lair out of fear of some terrible punishment it's not clear whether this warning is for all people including the schwa or

(28:34) specifically for outsiders apparently the elders know where her lair is but have never revealed this information to younger generations let alone strangers this myth of noon kui's lair is curious though as is believed to be a large luxurious room filled to the brim with golden gemstones and multiple people who have met and conversed with the shore since father cruspy's death have been told quite openly that the golden artifacts given to him were taken from within the tios caves so it's really no secret that this is

(29:09) the location it's an enormously vast unmapped network with restrictive access on the threat of death so therein lies the problem in the mid-1960s a hungarian speleologist and prospector named janus morris better known by his spanish nickname juan was trucking through the andes mountains the jungle was dangerous but morris proceeded fearlessly recounting in a rare and obscure interview from 1978 quote one day i came across the schwarz head shrinkers i lived with them for two months but not for one second that i believed they

(29:50) could be the ones holding the secret end quote after treasure hunting in peru bolivia and argentina morse had met with a source in ecuador who tipped him off to a remote cave that might be well worth his time until his death moritz kept his source anonymous however we will eventually find out who it was at the foot of one of the openings to the tiles caves possibly one that is still unknown to the public he climbed in quote the vegetation was hiding an entrance to a cave the rock marked the exact spot i came close to the edge of the entrance

(30:28) which was barely three feet wide equipped with my lantern i dove into this mysterious corridor and quote mapping his position morris traveled further and further in until finally he came across a section of the cave that was clearly not natural but man-made moritz would leave out details as to not expose his route but at some point here he discovered the entrance to a secret chamber as he would recount the walls ceilings and general architecture within it were perfectly carved a long hallway stretched out from the back and as he

(31:06) traveled through it he finally stumbled upon the mother lode quote all around me and as far as the eye could see i saw a mountain of shining gold i spotted human skeletons completely covered by a thin layer of gold i saw a desk of polished stone over it there were large open books with golden pages i barely dared to brush the golden pages with engraved hieroglyphs surely these indestructible books include the history of all civilizations those from above and below end quote it was a monumental find a library of massive golden plates

(31:50) strung together into books each impressed with pictures and symbols that seemed to be of a mixed eastern origin with writings in a language he did not recognize but most closely resembled cuneiform it seemed that morris had discovered the origin of father crosby's collection crespi's golden plates were pages from these golden books this was truly the find of a lifetime so murats had to proceed with the utmost caution in particular he needed to ensure that he had legal rights to the discovery and for that he needed a

(32:25) trusted lawyer so with his possession carefully mapped he closed the secret chamber and proceeded to exit the cave for the next year he would carefully network to find the right legal representative to share this discovery with and through a senator friend he was introduced to a prominent lawyer from ecuador's largest city guayaquil a man named gerardo pena mateos due to the necessary legal role he had to play mateos required morris to show him the treasure trove and morris did just that allowing matteos to confirm

(33:00) that this mysterious place and his treasures did indeed exist exactly as morris described in june of 1969 they both wrote a detailed description of the findings quote the subterranean world exists and inside his chambers i have discovered valuable objects of great cultural and historical value to humanity the objects consist especially of metal sheets that probably contain the summary of the history of an extinguished civilization of which we don't have the least indication to date and quote on july 21st they had this document

(33:41) notarized and finally submitted it to the ecuadorian government expecting to be met with a team or at the very least resources for an expedition they never heard back and if there was no way they could take it all out themselves most of these artifacts were massive particularly the metal books which could not be lifted without equipment or a larger team so for the next several years again with the utmost caution both morris and matteos vetted their options for someone to fund a full-scale expedition and in these efforts

(34:18) they met a certain ancient astronaut theorist a swiss man named eric von danigan eric von daniken is an author best known for his controversial theories on extraterrestrial involvement in early human civilizations he pretty much made the ancient astronaut hypothesis mainstream with his breakthrough book chariots of the gods and today tanakan can still be seen giving enthusiastic red-faced monologues on the popular history channel show ancient aliens in 1973 though he had released yet another bestseller titled gold of the

(34:56) gods and in it danican described an expedition he himself took through those man-made tunnels of the tio's caves led by none other than juan moritz in the book he described entering this secret chamber then marveling over the mounds and mounds of gold and impossible treasures and particularly the metal library which he considered to be irrefutable evidence of ancient extraterrestrial involvement on earth early on juan mars had gone public that eric von danigan was lying there had never been any expedition

(35:33) between them and danican has certainly never seen the artifacts himself moritz revealed to the german magazine der spiegel that the entire thing had come from a single long conversation that they had and that danican had used archival photos of moritz and after more than 5 million copies of gold of the gods had sold eric von daniken came clean short of outright saying that he embellished the whole thing danican admitted in an interview that quote in german we say a writer if he is not writing pure science is allowed to use

(36:10) some dramaturge effect some theatrical effects and that's what i have done end quote regardless of what really happened between them eric von danican had played his role his book gold of the gods had shot juan moritz father crosby and the taos caves to absolute fame a wealthy well-connected and enthusiastic scottish civil engineer named stanley hull had heard about father crosby's collection many years prior actually he filmed it in the 70s but it was only after reading danican's gold of the gods that he became

(36:50) absolutely obsessed with the implications of this impossible inner earth treasure according to hall the book sparked a quote personal odyssey into the heart of global enigmas the origins of mankind and quote in short stanley hall had made finding this metal library his life mission thankfully hall was a highly capable man in 1973 he led the first archaeological survey of the calendar stone circles in scotland to great success but this accomplishment would be nothing compared to what he did just three years later

(37:29) in 1976 hull organized an international expedition that would involve 120 members including british and ecuadorian government and military officials british special forces leading scientists and speleologists eight professional cavers an entire film crew and the former astronaut and the first man on the moon neil armstrong who served as the expedition's honorary president now hold on you're probably wondering how the heck did neil armstrong get involved i mean just a few years earlier he had literally been on the moon

(38:09) according to stanley hall's daughter quote neil was interested in what goes on in outer space and dad had read von danigan's book my dad himself had links to the armstrong clan his mother was an armstrong and mentioned it to neil in a letter it was a shot in the dark but my dad wrote we are organizing this expedition to ecuador would you like to come to his surprise armstrong replied yes it would be an honor to join you end quote so there you have it even neil armstrong thinks this stuff is cool but you may have noticed there was

(38:48) someone missing from the participant list and that was juan morris now hall had originally proposed his expedition to moritz in fact he was the very first person hall went to however morris would only accept on the condition that he would lead the expedition unlike morris stanley hall was an experienced civil engineer and project manager who was far more capable of leading a successful expedition of this magnitude so hall refused moritz was not at all concerned though as he was certain that he was the only one capable of reaching the treasure and

(39:26) without him it would simply be impossible it was 1976 and all the pieces were coming together the ecuadorian british governments had shaken hands a dream team of experts has signed on to the project and even neil armstrong was coming however they still didn't know exactly where to look so without morris's help hall would come to rely on two certain facts first that father crespi's medal library has certainly come from schwar territory and second that at least some of the schwarz knew where unsurprisingly this plan to simply ask

(40:10) chore nicely didn't really pan out these tribes people gave father cruspy his gifts out of a deep love and respect for him and the many years he spent with him and stanley hall and his expedition crew were complete outsiders who were not only trespassing on their territory but also intended on invading their ancient sacred inner-earth realm that they were the designated guardians of by the way that's why the ecuadorian and british militaries were involved so nobody lost their heads after asking around with other nearby

(40:44) communities hall and his crew were repeatedly warned that none dare adventure into the etios caves because rumors had it that the shore had been actively guarding a hidden subterranean civilization for hundreds if not thousands of years you might be asking a subterranean civilization of what exactly would it be the powerful spirit said to inhabit the caves well whatever they are they aren't human in an interview given for a french book titled lis entre terreste juan morris recounted a specific and chilling warning he received from a

(41:23) schwar elder quote he warned us of the dangers and told us the story of the intra-terrestrials just as he had learned from his father before him the inhabitants of the caverns are gods he said they have dominated the strength of the earth and the sun they have lightning that kills with which you can pierce through mountains their kingdom extends under the roots of the virgin jungle be careful with what your eyes will see you must touch nothing you must take nothing even if you believe you are alone their eyes will follow you wherever you

(42:02) go end quote this warning if authentic is a bit scary to say the least whether stanley hall was given the same warning though is unknown however it was clear that hull's enthusiasm for the expedition would not be dampened by rumors the schwar may have not been very receptive to hull but in a surprising turn of events they became far more friendly when they met neil armstrong like everyone else in the world even a somewhat remote tribe like the schwarz had heard of the moon landing and the elders arranged a grand meeting for him

(42:39) to greet armstrong as a true hero after this several shore volunteered to help and led the expedition crew to a specific entrance of the cave and gripping on a wire ladder down neil armstrong went into the darkness finally taking his one small step onto the cave floor the entire time being watched by silent schwar from above after it was all said and done the expedition lasted 35 days until their vast resources were finally exhausted it was both the most extensive and expensive expedition of the tiles caves as well as the largest cave expedition

(43:19) of its time hall and armstrong's team mapped almost 10 miles of this natural cave system discovered over 300 new animal and insect species and incredibly they did find a multitude of man-made structures carved tunnels rooms and ancient relics of great archaeological value they even found a human body and artifacts dating back to 1500 bc which confirmed that these caves had been frequented since truly ancient times however they found no treasure and none of the recovered relics remotely resembled father crosby's strange collection

(44:00) nor the metal library described by juan moritz in a bitter disappointment one of the lead researchers apparently voiced his frustration to a local shore elder who with a sly smile revealed to him that hull's team had investigated the wrong cave and that the real cave and the location of the treasures remained the exclusive secret of the schwarz indeed even morris's lawyer gerardo mateos would later reveal that morris had intentionally misled everyone to the taos caves as well including eric von daniken whereas the

(44:36) true treasure was in a nearby but completely different cave system a place which he called the cave of the higher beings while it seems most likely that the 1976 expedition had been deliberately deceived and directed away from the true treasure that doesn't mean there's no conspiracy to speculate here after all there were two governments involved and possibly three if you count neil armstrong as a representative of the us allegedly the expedition's military portion extracted four massive boxes which no one not even the schwa who

(45:13) openly cooperated were allowed to know the contents of shore reported feeling used and scammed and had a sinking sense in their heart that expedition members took something very important from the taos caves the expedition report itself is also noticeably short compared to what you'd expect from an undertaking of well over 100 people and over a month of non-stop exploration in recent years the ecuadorian researcher manuel palacios has pointed out quote the concealment of reports photographic and filmic evidence and

(45:50) above all the denial of the real magnitude of this underground system which was limited to only five kilometers in length end quote also consider that neil armstrong expressed to the press the sheer magnitude of his experience there quote tayos is up there with the moon end quote this short statement is not one to take lightly and makes you wonder if the expedition findings were really as simple as they seem in occult groups who've investigated the metal library mystery there tends to be a lot of focus on neil armstrong

(46:27) specifically as the first man to step on the moon there's a popular conspiracy theory that armstrong and the rest of his crew discovered ruins and evidence of ancient civilizations there and followed orders to erase them from existence in order to hide this truth from humanity the reasoning was either to maintain the narrative woven by the elite or simply out of fear of how humanity would react to this information from here this same logic should also apply to any evidence proving the existence of an ancient advanced inner

(47:01) earth civilization either of these revelations would have unprecedented effect on the validity of our religious political and economic systems it could very easily cause a complete collapse of course we know that neil armstrong led this expedition into the tiles caves so really how odd is it that the first man on the moon happened to lead a journey into what was rumored to be a hidden underground city or even civilization did armstrong participate purely out of his own personal interest or might he have gone under the order of

(47:38) the american government perhaps to find and deal with the truth of inner earth before the british and ecuadorian governments got to it first that's about as far as that theory goes and indeed interest in the tious caves and its metal library would never again reach the heights of the 1976 expedition however even after this failed mission stanley hall did not give up his search for the metal library the rumor of another cave system the cave of the higher beings was a true revelation to him and a pool of new hope

(48:13) like these swaths of soldiers scientists and cavers who would return to their homes a hall had also returned to scotland but with his eyes set on one final lead and that was the original anonymous source who had tipped juan morris off to where he would find his treasure back in the early 1960s when this all first began after their disagreement over the tiles cave expedition morrison hull's relationship had seriously dwindled and moritz refused to reveal any more details to hull and on february 27 1991 some 15 years

(48:51) after they first met moritz would die suddenly from respiratory heart failure allegedly due to a severe potassium deficiency just days before his 69th birthday he had collapsed and died alone in a hotel room while there's nothing inherently suspicious about this death in the previous two decades moritz had grown incredibly paranoid and had told friends that he'd suffered multiple kidnapping attempts and even attempts on his life he was also the owner of more than 50 safety deposit boxes across different

(49:26) banks in various countries but considering what he supposedly found perhaps he had a reason to feel wary while the death of juan morris was demoralizing for whole it ultimately fueled him for one final exhaustive sweep and in september of that same year 1991 stanley hall found a man named petronio jaramillo who was in fact moritz's secret source this was confirmed by marissa's lawyer gerardo mateos petronio jaramillo was already aware of hull's life work with his search for the metal library and when they met luckily

(50:06) it was on very friendly terms haramio agreed to show hold the correct entrance which he also confirmed was not part of the tiles caves but another nearby cave system entirely however he would only bring hull there once trust and camaraderie had developed between them and when the time was right during multiple long interviews and exchanges of letters jaramillo revealed how he'd originally come to know the location of the metal library like father crosby jaramillo's uncle was a true friend of the schwarz and for

(50:42) much of his life had offered them assistance one day the shore elders led him to the cave and guided him to their greatest treasure that which they'd guarded for countless generations they showed him their secret as a profound thank you the greatest gesture of trust one could receive however this treasure did more than elicit appreciation from jaramillo's uncle this treasure absolutely dumbfounded him he had never seen anything like it in his wildest dreams it was truly a sight to behold now the uncle was a humble man and had

(51:18) no intention of stealing the treasure but he couldn't just let it rest he could barely close his eyes without seeing it it was unbelievable he had to show the treasure to someone just to prove to himself that it was real so he chose his favorite nephew petronio jaramillo and in 1946 when jaramillo was just 17 he took him into the cave and led him to the secret room and showed him the impossible treasures of inner earth this was 18 years before morris ever arrived in ecuador after this visit jaramillo would visit it only one more

(51:54) time allegedly jaramillo did not take any photos simply because he thought no one would believe him it was a teenager after all however he claimed to have imprinted his initials into the malleable gold of seven of the metal plates to leave evidence of his presence in the metal library in a written testimony jaramillo recounted his experience in the metal library quote first i looked inside a small chamber and saw some golden toys and amongst these small balls of gold marbles of different sizes climbing to a second

(52:28) chamber my astonishment increased there were thousands of animal figures cattle and horses beetles sparrowhawks mastodons reptiles crocodiles bullocks rams shrews ostriches hippopotami all on pedestals made of brilliant stones of different colors though i could not tell whether or not these were rubies emeralds diamonds or sapphires because i knew nothing about precious stones there was a human skeleton with bones of gold lying on his back on a bed made of crystal but a crystal purer than the purest water i did not know which to admire more the

(53:10) crystal coffer or the skeleton moving to a third chamber figures half-human half animal as if all the mythologies had united there were bodies with heads of hawks with horses feets with wings birds with human arms and legs hyenas with faces of princesses of parrots of insects spiders with faces of women donkeys with faces of men they seem to come from the distant age of osiris thoth and anubis then all of a sudden an overwhelming sight appeared before me unbelievable in my wildest imaginings entire libraries full of heavy

(53:56) voluminous books i glanced through one or two pages of opaque yellow metal they seemed to be written by a single person in a near-perfect script there were known symbols crosses circles semi-circles squares triangles and stars i saw what appeared to be mathematical formulae geometrical zodiacal ecliptic and spatial figures in minute detail but in signs and letters of a language unintelligible to me there were thousands of volumes lifting one was like moving a hundred pounds of weight i put one onto a table of four legs

(54:34) covered in gold then i lifted down seven books but could not replace them due to the effort required the bookshelves were covered in beaten gold the furniture was the same all the supports of gold gold gold and quote returning back to 1995 by this point hall and jaramillo had conducted a solid plan for their expedition the one that would finally expose the treasure as real the ultimate goal that hall had labored for for so so long they planned on staying in short territory for three to four months exploring the correct cave this time and

(55:15) writing a report that involved the united nations agency unesco in order to legitimatize their findings however this was 1995 and a short but violent war broke out between ecuador and peru known as the cenopa war and hall was forced to return to scotland due to the dangerous political situation and there he stayed until 1998 when he received a call from petronio jaramillo's elderly mother with disturbing news jaramillo had been shot to death outside of his home in esmeralda's in what police called a robbery gone wrong

(55:53) but to this day many believe it was a targeted assassination after haramio's murder hall met with jaramillo's son multiple times and while he further confirmed his father's story he couldn't add any more useful information on the location of the cave though his chances of seeing the metal library had died with jaramillo and moritz stanley hall continued to promote the story of the metal library beneath ecuador up until his own death in 2008 encouraging all interested parties to find this inner-earth treasure in

(56:28) cooperation with preservation for the caves themselves and immense respect for the shore people and only ever for the greater good of humanity today his daughter eileen hall munoz carries on his legacy working in ecuador as the co-director of the tious project a non-profit that collaborates with ngos environmentalists and local organizations toward a protected future for the taos caves and they've done incredible work for both taos and the ecuadorian rainforest but eileen doesn't shy away from revealing

(57:04) her frequent hobby of sustainable treasure-seeking after 12 years of living in the area she still believes the metal library is somewhere beneath her feet today juan morris's former lawyer gerardo matteos is still a vocal proponent for his deceased client's discovery though he himself was a witness to the treasure trove morris always obscured the path there so the location of the cave entrance is lost for mateos too in a 2017 interview with anjocero magazine mateo stated that quote i am sure that the cave of the higher

(57:41) beings with all their valuable treasures will be found sooner or later however to rediscover the metal library depends on the mysterious inhabitants and guardians of the underground world without their consent it would be impossible to find it and quote so there you have it one day the truth and treasures of inner earth may be discovered but only if the gods below allow it and perhaps that's for the best they are the inhabitants after all and it's comforting to know that those who still seek the treasure today

(58:17) do so without greed but with the utmost respect for the natural environment and the indigenous people in fact where treasure hunting is eileen's hobby conservation of these fragile ecosystems and native cultures is her everyday mission some things are far more valuable than gold or even hidden truths but as for me and you our search for inner earth continues i hope you enjoyed the incredible story of the metal library more ancient mysteries are on the way in if you're new i've got a whole playlist of inner

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