Case file · Folklore / legend
Lizard people tunnels under Los Angeles
In January 1934 the Los Angeles Times reported that mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt was digging under Fort Moore Hill, guided by a radio device, for golden tablets left by a 'lizard people' city 5,000 years old.
1934 CE · 34.06, -118.24 · status: claim
The account
Shufelt said a Hopi legend described the tunnels; the dig was abandoned within weeks. The story is an ancestor of modern reptilian conspiracy theories.
The sceptical view
Nothing was found, and no Hopi source for the 'lizard people' legend has been identified.