63. Sinnit-Nut Hollow Earth Symposium
- the Sinnit-Nut caves in West Virginia (?), us@
- Saturday, April 21,1984, noon to Easter Sunday, April 22, 1984, noon
- Having been interested in & & entertained by theories about
the earth being hollow, I organized this subterranean discussion of such
things. This was coincidentally on the days when Jiminy H. Particulate Matter
Criminy is said to've been entombed in a cave & then to've been reanimated
& to've moved a giant rock blocking the entrance in order to leave.
Dave Bakker, who picked the
caves & otherwise organized the spelunking, & I took Betsy Greene,
Richard, Cathy Leaycraft, & Matty Nadov fairly
deeply into either the Sinnit or the Nut caves for this. Writer Al Ackerman made
a tape recording of a fake radio talk show especially for it. In it he poses
as fictitious cave expert Dr. Paul Wilhelm being interviewed about the Sinnit-Nut
caves by fictitious talk-show host Ted Lindner (played by a "sociopathic"
friend of his). He tells a detailed tale about a Reverend who led a church
group into these caves only to return alone, deranged & ill. The conclusion
we're led to believe is that the caves have been used to dump toxic military
waste from chemical warfare experiments & that this waste mutated the
church group into zombies who still wander the caves saying "dit-dit,
dit-dit". The Reverend has apparently survived because he didn't approach
the "black lake". However, he does eventually waste away after
trying to explain the disappearance of the church group in an incoherent
story. As a special surprise to the Symposium attendees, this tape was played
while we were in the Sinnit-Nut complex without their being told that it
was a fiction created especially for the event. No-one seemed particularly
worried. Excerpts from various relevant publications were read: Marshall
B. Gardner's A Journey to the Earth's Interior or Have the Poles Really
Been Discovered; the magazine "Shavertron" #9 - dedicated
to the fabulous writings of Richard Shaver & edited by Richard Toronto;
the magazine "The Conspiracy Tracker" #1, edited by D. A. Passero;
Dr. Raymond Bernard's The Hollow Earth; & Mary Davis' magazine
"The Hollow Hassle". With substantial difficulty we slept in sleeping
bags on the damp boulders - afraid of falling off the side into the nearby
stream. The next morning we recounted our dreams. We recorded our readings,
dream tellings, & playings of stalactites & stalagmites (etc..)
& these were mixed with Ackerman's tape with the assistance of Bob
Boilen at Startec Studio to produce the Sinnit-Nut Hollow Earth Symposium
cassette published by Widémouth Tapes. This tape is meant to be listened
to either in a cave or while laying naked in a damp bath tub or on a cellar
floor in the dark with headphones on. As far as I 'know', no-one has ever
listened to it under the correct conditions. When we left the cave the next
day, there were 2 guys there who said they had been about to enter the caves
to look for us because they'd noticed our cars parked overnight nearby &
were worried that something might've happened to us. Upon returning to Baltimore,
we learned that there had been a small earthquake there - something that
I had never heard of happening there in the 30 years I'd lived there! We
decided that the quake was a way of expressing displeasure with our invasion
of their territory by the "Deros" ("Detrimental Robots"
posited by Richard Shaver as anti-human hollow earth dwellers).
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