Case file · Folklore / legend
Lanser's 'mystic village' on Shasta
A 1932 Los Angeles Times feature by Edward Lanser described strange lights on Mount Shasta and townspeople's tales of white-robed Lemurians who paid for goods with gold nuggets.
1932 CE · 41.33, -122.30 · status: claim
The account
The article, often cited as 22 May 1932, turned private occult lore into a press story; later writers repeated its details as fact.
The sceptical view
Lanser reported hearsay, and the article is mostly known through later retellings.
Connections in the atlas
- The Rosicrucian Lemuria book
- 'A Dweller on Two Planets' puts Lemurians in Shasta
- Mount Shasta — Lemuria & 'beings'