I used to live up in the northern California area for a time when I was in college.

I got to meet some very interesting people, though some had thoughts that were a little out there, even for me.

Ideas about how crystals hold certain powers that can heal, boardices in certain parts of the west coast in the United States,

and the idea of lost civilizations, some that are still alive today, hidden away from our society.

They all have their strong set of believers that are still alive today, hidden away from our society. They all have their strong set of believers that are willing to talk about and defend their ideas.

Some of these can be very convincing.

All I ask is for an open mind as we explore one of the most fascinating stories of a civilization that we thought no longer existed.

Yet its members have been seen around the entrance to their city, underground.

They say that deep inside one of California's volcanoes lives a group of people. They have been seen,

few people have entered and communicated with them, and that around some of the nearby

towns, their existence is obvious, though it is said that they like to keep a low profile.

Join me today as we go to Mount Shasta in Siskiyuk County, California, and the legends that surround it.

My name is Edwin, And here, it's a dark mountain. It was around the 1820s when travelers started going to Mount Shasta and its surrounding regions in northern California.

The place is beautiful, with snow-capped mountains and rivers, and also Native American camps had been there since at least 600 BC.

And they say that, maybe even thousands of years before that, up to 9,000 based on artifacts, because it served as a type of boundary between four Native American

peoples, the Shasta, Modoc, Ajumawi, Atsuegi, and Wintu.

All of these tribes had a lot of respect for Mount Shasta, and it has ended up in teaching

myths, like the Great Spirit builds Mount Shasta to see the ocean,

or the one about how the first rainbow was made, where they talk about cooperation of animals on the

mountain. A lot of these can be found on a book called Bag of Bones, published in 1966, in case you're interested.

But along with all of the tales, there are also legends that surround it.

For one, it has been called a sacred mountain, because it was seen as a place of balance

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