Megalithic Marvels - Mysteries of Mt. Shasta & the Legend of J.C. Brown

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

Why is Mt. Shasta in northern California linked to so many strange mysteries and legends? Why is it considered by many to be a portal, and considered a hotspot for UFO activity? Why are there long and large stone walls that snake over the foothills of this primordial region? Why are there enigmatic doors carved into the back-side of this mountain? Mt. Shasta is very sacred to the Native American tribes who live there and who regard it as their native place of worship, which they believe is also home to a mythical creature known as Matah Kagmi. What is it about this mountain that draws thousands of people make annual pilgrimages here seeking healing and enlightenment? And is the 1900s legend of mining prospector J.C. Brown more than just a legend? Did he actually find a tunnel that went deep into the mountain?

Stargate Voyager. Hey, what's up, everyone? Thanks so much for tuning in to the Stargate Voyager podcast. Whether you're watching this, we're listening on YouTube or Spotify or Apple Podcasts or somewhere else. I'm just glad you're here. My name is Derek Olson, if you don't know who I am. And I am your host. And I'm really excited about this episode that we're going to dive into.

We're going to go to Mount Shasta and talk about some of the interesting. aspects of this amazing location on the West Coast and some of the legends that go with this mountain. But before we dive into our topics, just a friendly reminder to hit subscribe or follow from wherever you are listening to or watching this episode. Hit that subscribe button and give me a five-star rating if possible. Like I know Spotify will let you hit the five stars. Hit the five stars for me. That just helps my podcast to break through the algorithms and get out to more people. And these are exciting times. We've been creeping into Spotify's top 50 in the history category of history podcasts globally. And we've even hit as high as in the top 25 before. So let's keep

this train rolling. If you're on social media, give me a follow on X or Instagram, places like that. I just put out an interesting short form video featuring a really enigmatic spot in Peru at a site called Soxay-Waman. And on the backside of the site are these incredible anomalies. It basically looks like these massive precision cut staircases that have been flipped over upside down. Again, these are massive in scale. each chunk of stairs, although I'm not sure if there's stairs, probably weighs at least 70 tons, if not more. So massive scale, but I get up really close to these for you in this video. And I ask the question, what in the world are these?

So again, give me a follow on X, Instagram, TikTok, that's another place, Facebook, a Facebook page. And watch this video and let me know what you think. This was, was this a staircase that was literally snapped in half in prehistory and flipped over due to some violent cataclysm? Or is this something all entirely different that just might look like stairs because of these precision layered cuts? It's really fascinating. Again, go to Stargate Voyager on any of those platforms to see it. All right, well, let's travel to the Mount Shasta area. So a few years back, my family and I purchased our first ever camping trailer.

And one of the first places we went camping, I live in Washington State. We did a road trip down to Northern California. It was kind of like our first ever Griswold family camping trip with some of our other family members. Again, from the Seattle area down to Mount Shasta and NorCal, and then we headed east to Reno, Nevada. And we hit several different ancient sites on this trip. We went to Lovelock Cave, which I've been previous episodes on and featured videos on my social media channels of. Love Lock Cave is where the legendary giants with red hair were supposedly found.

And so I'll probably do some more future episodes on that going deeper into that. But we saw that cave down close to Reno. And then we went to Daughter Pass. in Northern California there and saw some incredible ancient petroglyphs right there on Donner Pass that most people have no idea even exist. But along the way to those sites, we drove past Mount Shasta. And this is such an incredible location. This is just an area I absolutely love. You know, when you're approaching Mount Shasta on I-5, when you get to about, I think it's called the Wai'Rican.

California, you're heading south, the landscape just appears so primordial, so ancient. And one interesting thing to note is that as you're approaching Mount Shasta in the distance, if you look close on the foothills surrounding Mount Shasta, you'll see these lines. And what these lines are in the distance, these are rock walls that are much bigger than you think when you get up close to them. But there's these rock walls that are made up of these volcanic stones that have been piled together. And these things run all over the foothills right there surrounding at Mount Shasta. And I've done a little bit of research on them.

And there are some theories that these are far older than we actually know. These weren't just put up necessarily by farmers in the 1800s. These look almost like, you know, maybe some kind of Mayan wall you would see in Mexico. Not necessarily the style, but you get what I'm saying. It's this rock wall that's pretty high up. And at one point along the freeway, you get to drive right by one that comes down this hill. And so that's just one of many interesting, possibly ancient anomalies in this area. again, I already mentioned the Donner Pass petroglyphs, which if you're ever on Donner Pass, just Google it.

You'll find not too hard how to find those, but there's ancient stuff in this area right here in California. Now, Mount Shasta is ancient in itself, and there's so many legends and oral traditions about this interesting mountain. It's known in many circles as a literal portal, or you could say Stargate. For those who follow Ufology, Mount Shasta is kind of a hot spot. It's even known for UFOs going in and out of it, I believe. It's considered a very sacred mountain, a very sacred location to the Native American tribes of this area, namely the Wintu and Modoc tribes who regard the area as their native place of worship. Now, according to these tribes, there are some mythical creatures that are believed to inhabit this mountain range

and one of them is known as the Matakagmi. I think I'm pronouncing that right. And this is like the modoc word for Bigfoot. Matakami are said to be 8 foot plus tall, covered in coarse hair, have brown eyes and give off a musky odor. No, this is not really a Bigfoot podcast, but I thought I would share that because it's a little bit relevant to Mount Shasta and the native tribes of this area.

Now, thousands upon thousands of people literally make pilgrimages here every year. It's like a mecca to the New Age community. And this is mostly due to the legend of Lamaria that says somewhere deep beneath the mountain is a complex world of tunnels and a hidden city called Telos or Telos. And this is home supposedly to an ancient community of people, again, called the Limerians.

Now, as you look into the legends of Limeria, you're going to find reports of people, even in modern times, who have reported seeing living seven foot plus tall creatures or humanoids with long, flowy hair on the mountains. and people in the know who follow the stuff believe that these seven plus foot tall entities are basically the offspring or descendants of the surviving ancient Limerians who once lived under the mountain. Now, a lot of that might sound pretty fanciful or out there to many, but there's actually a photo that I have.

And if you're watching this on Spotify or YouTube, wherever you can see the video version of this. Right now I'm going to show you the photo. This is somewhere on the backside of Mount Shasta. And as you can see, here is what looks like almost a megalithic door that has been carved into the backside of the mountain. You see cutouts, kind of like you might see in Peru at some of these sites, where it's layered cuts going in. But what's more is, instead of seeing some cave entrance or ancient-looking entrance into the mountain, you see modern-day doors that have been cemented in. It's like the original entrances were sealed off with cement, and then they put in their

own door and put a lock on it. And so it's very interesting. You can see the scale of the doors with the guy standing next to it. And I'm actually going to do a deep dive on this, and I know who this gentleman is. and I'm going to try to get him on for an interview to talk to us more about different legends of Shasta and these doors on the backside in particular and how he came across them in some of the legends of Mount Shasta. So Shasta is known for all these mysteries. It's known for sub-training tunnels, these Limerians, UFOs, Bigfoot, But it's also known for people literally disappearing in and on and around the mountain. There's even modern day reports of people disappearing around this mountain.

This is actually a real thing. What's more? It's also known for some legends of giants. And in this episode, I wanted to share probably the most famous giant legend regarding Mount Shasta. And this evolves around a guide. named J.C. Brown. Now, as you look into the legend of J.C. Brown, this main figure, J.C. Brown, appears to have been a real person who lived in the 1800s and into the early 1900s. He was a British prospector who in 2004 was hired by a mining company called the Lord

Cowdre Mining Company of England to prospect for gold in and around California and the Mount Shasta region. Now as the story goes, one day, J.C. Brown, he's out surveying on Mount Shasta, and he comes across this cliff. And he is trying to figure out, man, how do I get down from this ledge, this cliff area? He eventually makes his way down to the bottom. And as he gets to the bottom of this cliff, he notices in the distance, what looks at the distance. looks kind of like a tunnel entrance at the base of this cliff. But as he moves closer to what looks like this tunnel, he can see that it's been blocked mostly by fallen rock debris.

And so he begins digging and excavating around what he thinks is this tunnel entrance for a while. So he must have had obviously a shovel with him and some equipment, because again, he is there to prospect for gold. So eventually he clears his way through and sure enough, there is a tunnel. And according to most reports, it is a large tunnel that appears to him to be manmade. Meaning this isn't just some natural cave on the mountain. This was made by somebody else. This was hand chiseled or hand carved out, hand dug, whatever.

And according to reports, this thing, was big, like 10 feet tall by almost seven feet wide. That's one big tunnel. So as the story goes, J.C. Brown begins to venture deep inside this tunnel. And he goes deeper and he goes deeper. And this thing was like a couple miles long from what I found. So as I read between the lines, it's like he was in there for a mile or two. and it's just kind of like a tunnel, just rock tunnel, that's it.

But as he goes even deeper, he begins to find an assortment of ancient oddities in these tunnels that included remnants of what appeared to be some type of ancient mining tools. Apparently, he also began to come across valuables, treasures, valuable precious stones, and even gold according to some of these stories. Now he ventures even deeper still, and into the tunnel, he begins to find chambers that go off this main vein of the tunnel. And as he looks into some of these chambers, he sees inscriptions and symbols. You know, I kind of picture when I hear this that maybe they were like hieroglyphics or even petroglyphs that were etched into the walls of these chambers. But what's more, according to the legend, J.C. Brown begins to find artifacts. But the story gets even better.

J.C. continues to venture deeper still and looks in other chambers. And what does he find inside? But what looks like ancient mummies, these skeletons that are wrapped of unusual size, ranging from like seven to nine feet, I believe. again, this part of the legend took place apparently in 1904. Now let's fast forward 30 years later to 1934 when J.C. Brown appears in Stockton, California. And part of where we get this piece of the legend is a news headline from the Stockton record of June 9th, 1934. they ran a top of the fold page, page one headline that read, quote, 80 Stocktonians left behind in search for Lost Continent. So you can surmise what you want from this part of the legend. Kind of what I get from this maybe is that, again, in 1904, 30 years earlier, J.C. Brown finds this tunnel.

But then for whatever reason, he couldn't get the treasure back out with him, back to wherever he lived, or maybe he went back and told people and they laughed at him and wouldn't help him come back. Or maybe he did take some stuff with him from the tunnel, but I imagine as one guy, he could only take so much. So maybe he went back to Stockton, you know, and maybe just a year later he wanted to go back to this tunnel, but maybe he couldn't find his way back. Who knows what really happened? All we know, according to the this legend is 30 years later, he's trying to get this group of people, this search party to go with him to find this spot on Mount Shasta, to go into the tunnels and to find and catalog all of these ancient artifacts and skeletons. But here's where the legend goes dark.

Apparently the night before the search party was to leave Stockton and travel. to Mount Shasta, J.C. Brown mysteriously vanishes. And members of his expedition party suspected foul play, according to many reports, police were called into investigate, but they found no reason for his disappearance to be a hoax. And J.C. Brown was never seen again, according to the legends. So that's just a little bit of valor surrounding Mount Shasta, a place that is truly ancient, a place that is shrouded in mystery with all these legends and oral traditions. And again, like I said, that photograph of the back of the mountain is very, very intriguing to me. But also when you add in the fact that there are ancient petroglyphs not far from Mount Shatheaval.

on Donner Pass. And so this is a place I definitely look forward to going to visit myself in the near future. But again, one thing is for certain. Mount Shasta is ancient and this place is shrouded in mystery. And I actually have some plans in the near future to go to Northern California again. myself, maybe with some friends, and do some of my own investigation and take some videos and photographs and to try to find these sealed off doors on the backside. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.

I know it was a bit on the shorter side, but actually at the time of this recording, I'm actually getting ready to leave for England tomorrow on our Mysteries of England tour with author, researcher, and explorer Hugh Newman and J.J. Ainsworth. I cannot wait to meet up with them in our awesome group that has joined us on this tour. I think there's going to be like a group of 30 of us. And so this is going to be an incredible time. We're going to have a private visit inside Stonehenge. We're going to check out so many of the ancient Neolithic burial chambers and tombs and standing stones. around the area. And we're really just going to do a deep dive into the ancient, ancient history

of this region. I cannot wait. So look forward to when I get back, me doing some episodes about my England trip. And again, when it comes to giants, there's so much giant lore in England. It's crazy. There's even a giant, giant, giant geoglyph that we're going to go tour and get a drone video of us standing around. This thing is massive. And we also plan to hopefully do some crop circle hunting. This is the season when crop circles often begin to appear in and around Wiltshire and this part of England.

So hopefully these things appear so that we can go adventuring and get inside these and get some video evidence. And we might even have to do some trespassing. The rumor is to get into some of these crop circles. So keep your fingers crossed for us. Again, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Thanks for tuning in. And until next time, keep exploring.