

Gordon Melton, an expert on unusual religions, identified the world’s first UFO religion as the group “I AM Activity,” which was founded in Mount Shasta in the 1930’s by Guy W. Oliver’s book contains the first published references linking Mount Shasta to a mystical brotherhood of “spiritual adepts” a tunnel entrance to a secret city beneath Mount Shasta Lemuria the concept of “I AM” and also the “channeling” of disincarnate spirits.

Oliver who was living in Yreka, California, during the gold-rush era. Most of the odd stories surrounding Mount Shasta can be traced back to a book called A Dweller On Two Planets first published in 1906, written by a teenager, Frederick S. In a government-funded study, 89 percent of visitors questioned admitted that they came to Mount Shasta to worship the gods and alien beings believed to dwell in the Hollow Earth beneath the mountain–who are frequently referred to as the mountain’s “Underground Dwellers”. According to the Sacramento Bee newspaper, over 100 cults from all over the world trace their origins back to Mount Shasta. In terms of weirdness and strangeness, the unusual stories surrounding the mountain will challenge any other region in the contiguous United States, or perhaps even the world. Mount Shasta is not the tallest or most beautiful mountain in the Cascade Range but it is the most legendary.
