Weird Tales

Deep beneath a mountain named Kokoweef in the Mojave Desert awaits the discovery of a lifetime! Or does it?

Rhyolite was part of the last great American gold rush which took place in Central Nevada from 1900 to 1910. And while there are plenty of ghost towns in the West, Rhyolite is one of the most famous, located on the edge of Death Valley.

At the Eastern entrance to Death Valley National Park stands a group of adobe buildings known as Death Valley Junction. It has gained fame due to the extraordinary efforts of artist Marta Becket, an artist and performer whose Amargosa Opera House has brought both national and international acclaim.

In 1849 a group of optimistic and determined pioneers set out from the settlement of Salt Lake, Utah to head to California. Most were gold seekers, some Mormon Missionaries and others simply looking for a better life.

In 1907, Willis Emerson left his Death Valley mine to pen a classic book: The Smokey God, which claims that civilizations exist in subterranean caverns: The Hollow Earth Theory. Did he get this idea in Death Valley?

On August 5, 1947 an astounding announcement was made: Dr. F. Bruce Russell, a retired physician from Cincinnati, had found a cave with giant mummified remains and artifacts from a lost civilization. Fifteen years earlier a miner broke through a mine shaft and into a tunnel of caverns, which he also said, led to the remains of an ancient people. And, before that, one of the men who worked on the wagons hauling borax stumbled up on a cavern with remnants of a forgotten and lost race. Every one of