The Tunnels of Saint Thomas
São Thome das Letras (Saint Thomas of the Letters) is a well known tourist resort located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, roughly midway between the cities of Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte. Being situated on top of a mountain it has excellent views of the surrounding countryside, and it enjoys a climate that is cooler than the coastal cities.
Most visitors come to the area to take advantage of its many hiking trails, its restaurants and its artists’ colony. But others come to explore another well-known feature, which is the entrance to a mysterious system of underground tunnels.
The entrance is located at the northern edge of the town. This man-made tunnel is open to visitors, who are free to travel inside the tunnels as far as they wish. According to the local inhabitants, nobody knows who built the tunnel or where it goes.
At one point a team from the Brazilian army entered the tunnel to find out how far it extended. After traveling for four days inside the tunnel, the Army explorers came to a large room deep underground. Extending from this room were three other tunnels, each traveling in a different direction.
The Army group used this central room as a base, and set out to explore each of the other three tunnels. In no case did any of these other tunnels reach a destination. They simply carried on for mile after mile underneath the ground. Finally, unable to establish how far any of these tunnels went or where they ended, the group returned to their point of origin at São Thome das Letras.
A recent visitor who ventured into the tunnel described it as follows:
“The entrance was quite large. It was a wide mouth of a cave with a mound of dirt creating a small hill over the entrance. The cavern entrance faced to the west and immediately began running down hill, into the earth. The tunnel/cavern would have to go downhill, as we were essentially on top of a mountain.”
“With our flashlights in hand, we entered the cavern. Within a few meters, the cavern entrance narrowed into a tunnel which was about three meters (9 feet) high and two meters wide. The tunnel was dug out of dirt, and was not cut out of solid rock, as some tunnels are.”
“The tunnel headed downward at a steady slope, but it was not too steep. At no point was it ever necessary to duck, stoop or crawl in this tunnel. Quite the opposite, it was quite wide and high, even for the tallest man to walk through, even someone who was, say, seven feet tall!”
“I was amazed at this ancient feat of engineering. We were descending down into the earth in a wide, gradually sloping tunnel that was dug into a red, clay-type dirt. It was not the smooth, laser-cut rock walls that Erich von Daniken had claimed to have seen in Ecuador in his book “Gold of the Gods”, but it was just as incredible.”
” The tunnel was not perfectly straight, but wound left and right and occasionally dropped down a few feet and continued on. It was perfectly dry and the air was fresh and breathable.” (Quoted from the article Subterranean Tunnels & the Hollow Earth : Source: Biblioteca Pleyades)
This first person account validates the existence of these tunnels, and gives credence to local legends that link these tunnels with the ancient Inca fortress of Machu Picchu in Peru.
What can no longer be contested is that the modern lands of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile are riddled with underground tunnels that owe their origin to a culture that predates anything that is known in accepted history.
This culture seems likely to have been far superior in technology to anything that forms part of the fabric of Meso-American cultures like the Aztecs, the Incas or the Mayas. For this unknown culture was built on a scale that dwarfs the achievements of these tribes, involving megaliths of a size that cannot be replicated to this day.
