Mount Shasta: Telos, the Lemurians, and the People Who Vanished Beneath the Mountain

On the morning of 22 May 1999, Carl Herbert Landers left a camp near Lake Helen to climb Mount Shasta in California. He was 69, an experienced hiker and distance runner, carrying food and water. He told his two climbing partners that he felt unwell, then set off ahead of them to get a head start. He never returned. The Siskiyou County sheriff's office and forest rangers ran a ten-day search with helicopters and ground teams, but found no trace. Landers is still missing.

Mount Shasta is a large stratovolcano rising 4,317 metres in northern California. Snow, glaciers, old lava flows, and steep volcanic terrain make a search difficult. But the combination of real geology and older stories turned Shasta into a place where rumours of aliens, space portals, and an underground city could take root.