The Lost Treasure Map Series (61 page)

They were astonished that they had not fully
noticed the group, and its accomplishments. They had seen many
mentions and media stories over the past years, but it all had
looked exaggerated! Yet in the large conference hall they saw it
packed solid with famous and major scientists from all over the
globe!

He began realizing that within the club
there was a form of secret society, which he never fully grasped
the main objective of!

Mortimer had vaguely told him of their new
discover that could well rival their investigations and discoveries
at the two castles, if they could find a way of proving its
existence.

Something had to exist! Mortimer had never
been known to exaggerate such statements! Yet Mortimer was unable
to prove anything had been found! Only a few Exploration
Association members knew what existed and were keeping it
confidential!

Mortimer had told him that they would give
some details at the meeting and that they would find out if the
Exploration Association was authentic.

Bryson was sure that if nothing surfaced
that he and Merton and Mortimer would join the group, and could
find future occurrences there from its members. They had scientists
and technology that could prove to be of great use to them!

He had originally ignored an invitation to
the scientific conference and its recommendations to scheduled
activities that were to bestow a source of an abundance of unknown
findings as it had seemed useless, and he still sat astounded as
more science connections and potential assistance emerged, which he
could use with future projects.

The presentations began swiftly with an aged
scientist showing the eager audience new unseen ancient prehistoric
skulls, resting across a large conference table, across their
front, at the front of the stage.

At both sides of the large stage platform
technicians activated spotlights on the skulls and they lit up
brightly.

Bryson was taken aback at how few took
notice of the new skull exhibition and new findings and sensed that
they were waiting for something immense. He also sensed from them
that he and the two paranormal scientists would be part of it,
which he was not fully able to grasp. Nobody there left the
conference, and the audience waited and discussed things
excitedly.

He heard astonished and altered accounts of
his fame and the American castle/voyager affair, and the coverage
that had been given to it, and he started to see their interest in
him.

Professor Selenski, chairman of the
Exploration Association, finally marched onto the stage, and the
technicians removed the skull exhibition.

“
If you never attended the famous
accounts Professor Farrell gave ...
”
Selenski announced firmly.
“
With accounts of
David Parker and his fantastic new technology, discoveries ...
I
’
ll
inundate you on the latest uses of it! And what
it
’
s just
uncovered!
”

Bryson vaguely recollected Professor
Farrell and vague accounts of his discovery of perfectly preserved
fossils and the news coverage, and the Exploration
Association
’
s involvement with the alien encounter on the
Pacific island, and as he recalled the world event and all the
coverage the media had given he paid attention to Selenski far
more, intrigued.

“
Conventional technology used mainly
in archaeology and by geologist, mineralogists and oil surveyors,
has techniques such as geophysical prospecting and seismic
reflection ...

“
A multitude of electrical methods
applied in mineral exploration depend on electrochemical activity,
permittivity, and resistivity effects.

“
Degrees of electrical conductivity
exist in soil, and many materials act as natural batteries, with
vague effects that can be measured ...

“
Magnetic methods of prospecting
detect buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances that
they cause!

“
Surveying done with gravimeters on
airplanes and helicopters have accelerations and movements that can
affect and ruin readings, which are very inaccurate anyhow, and
they normally can only detect such things as salt domes, which trap
oil, and are used in oil exploration, as well as to detect
high-density minerals.

“
Forms of radar detection can be used,
but also with inaccurate results ...

“
The new surveying equipment David
Parker has can scan more accurately, deeper and faster, from
airplanes and helicopter many times more powerfully than anything
invented, and has been vastly improved since its use at the Pacific
island discovery! The detection components are highly confidential
again, as well as its uses by the military ...

“
It produces the most detailed mapping
of beneath the ground ever seen, to a far greater depth, making it
possible to observe small and large objects
–
of the dimensions we are
interested in!

“
It
’
s in military satellites ... It can detect
underground missile bases and things far below the ground, even
hidden away in mountains, which are normally
undetectable.

“
Parker has been redoing his project
in Greenland searching the depths of ice, and targeting locations
in the oldest regions of ice recorded, where there could be
rare
sites where
some of the dinosaurs existed! Can we be entirely certain
some dinosaurs, like mammoths, have been fully extinct for millions
of years?

“
Extinct species, some remaining
dinosaurs, might have somehow reached the Antarctic too, and could
have been frozen in avalanches or snowstorms.

“
They have fully equipped planes,
technicians and pilots, to carry out their work.

“
This technology is a scientific
breakthrough and it would be a mistake not to use it for
science!

“
They
’
ve also been redoing scanning and
doing underground maps of miles of rural Britain, the coast, and
expertly examining archeological sites, and potential regions below
forests, hills, lakes in distinct detail, and have revealed much of
what they were searching for ...

“
They also discovered signals of
something believed to be of unknown origins, which, or course, is
what this is about!
”

Bryson accidentally gasped loudly,
knowing they had detected something incredibly, and from
Mortimer
’
s
reactions, and he recalled more about their discovery in Cornwall
and realized that they could have used their technology at the
castle investigations, and wondered how much Merton and Mortimer
had known of its existence. But could they have persuaded them and
David Parker to use it
there
?

“
Tell us of the strange magnetic
phenomenon you found!
”
a scientist nearby asked.

“
Some form of powerful magnetic
influence, or something of that nature, was
detected!
”

“
Whatever it is, it has incredible
power! At what location was it discovered?
”

“
They
were flying near where Rudolf Hess crashed during the Second World
War when it was detected!”

“
The magnetic field of the globe has
been found at other zones than at the top of the globe
...
”

“
Even so it would beneficial to check
this disturbance and record it for science! Incidentally, the
scientists and technicians on the flight told us that the scanning
equipment started to blank out and react like it had at the Pacific
island discovery and at Cornwall, with fluctuations of energy
overpowering it, and the equipment barely
functioned!
”

Chapter 2

The Lost Chamber

Bryson rhythmically released the rope edging
him down into the deep endless tunnel, gasping for air, eagerly
seeking to grasp what was hidden at the bottom.

He yearned to explore and grasp what was
buried away down there in the abyss below, and he could not figure
out what could be there! There was not suggestion of anything! He
had always wanted to explore and discover new things of value and
greatness, and be remembered for it.

He recalled watching the archeologists at
work at the top constructing the tunnel for days, and him exploring
the surrounding fields, and, away in the distance, where Hess had
parachuted down.

Even though
nobody there had been sure what would be accomplished, it was
mysterious and fascinating!

Bryson groaned as the rope dug deep into his
side and he dangled about trying to loosen it, and he grabbed part
of a boulder embedded in solid mud, while he glimpsed parts of the
shaft below, wondering if it was a disappointment. The farm field
that it was in looked all wrong and empty of anything, and even
Merton, Mortimer, and leading Exploration Association members above
had doubts! Yet why would it or anything like it be situated in a
particular situated and featured site?

By the frantic reactions of the
archeologists below he sensed that they actually were discovering
things buried beneath him. Although the descriptions that they had
called up, when the discovery had been found were too vague and
said little. Though they had suggested a lost chamber was there,
and his mind had conjured up vague visions of strange treasures
below and he had persuaded them to allow a third person to go
down.

The archeologists had worked for days
digging firmly and accurately into the dirt, gigging the tunnel
straight down into the field, which was at the precise location
given to them by David Parker
’
s scientists and technicians, accumulated
from their equipment, and gave the exact center of the
disturbance.

Bryson had been standing glaring down the
hole, going down well over eighty feet, when one of the two
archeologists had hollered up as he had broken through into
something below.

Bryson had also been on the plane when it
had redetected the site and exact location, and he had been
incredibly surprised and amazed, as well as the other scientists
there, at the power and accuracy of the equipment and the discovery
located there.

There definitely was something there
in the field, located near where Hess had come down, which remained
unexplained, and he repeatedly wondered if the disturbance had
caused Hess
’
s crash, and how and why? Even though it
could clearly affect the equipment they had used to find it there
was no indication if it could do anything else. They had people and
people in the media search for accounts of anything being affected
and crashing and they had found nothing except someone had claimed
to have seen something shooting through the sky at the time of
Hess
’
s
appearance, and later thought it had been Hess
’
s arrival.

Bryson
’
s eyes strained to see through the
darkness and down into the hole below, but he still saw no distinct
features at the bottom, and only saw the vague shape of the two
archeologists resting over something.

As he rushed down faster he saw that they
were resting and staring into a hole, between them, and mentioning
things about it.

The hole was not large enough to allow one
person properly down, and he spotted chunks of wood in the buckets
of dirt that were to be hoisted up and he realized that whatever
was there was man-made as the rotted wood belonged to planks of
wood, which had been placed over something.

Chapter 3

The Discovery

Bryson searched the black abyss below as he
was being lowered down through the hole in the planks of wood.

He gripped the rope firmly, and looked up to
the top of the tunnel through the hole above, listening to the two
archeologists over him still conferring on what was below.

As far as he was concerned they had found
little other than the tunnel chamber. They could not see anything
in their dim lights and had been unable to proceed further as he
had been using the rope, and since he had it attached to him he had
found it easy to persuade them that he should go through the hole
first.

A deep thud echoed down from above as all
the scientists at the top gathered around to look down and he
wondered why they were lowering him so slowly down when they could
easily have lowered him at the same speed.

It was their discovery and expedition and he
wished it to be done right, and as one of his adventure expeditions
and to give the full discovery everything that it deserved. Yet he
was mainly confused as to what had been discovered, especially
after being surprised at so much in the past with such things, and
being given such little and muddled facts.

The ebbing radiance of the torches of the
two archeologists clearly was not enough to allow them to see
much!

A gold radiance had flashed down from a
reflection from the sun above and with his dreamy sight he observed
it probing its way amidst the abyss below, scattering beams through
clouds of silky dust floating about.

Some of it entered his throat giving him
faint sensations and thoughts of coughing, but he speeded up
unleashing the rope from himself allowing him to move down and to
inhale a proper amount of air, even though it was stale.