Case file · High strangeness
Guy Ballard meets 'Saint Germain' on Mount Shasta
Mining engineer Guy Ballard said that while hiking on Mount Shasta in 1930 he met a stranger who offered him a cup of a creamy liquid and revealed himself as the immortal Count of Saint Germain.
1930 CE · 41.41, -122.19 · status: claim
The account
Ballard told of further meetings with 'Ascended Masters' in 'Unveiled Mysteries' (1934), written as Godfré Ray King. With his wife Edna he founded the 'I AM' Activity, which claimed about a million followers by 1938, and Shasta became a major centre of New Age pilgrimage.
The sceptical view
The encounters rest solely on Ballard's word. In 1940s mail-fraud proceedings the courts examined the movement, and critics noted borrowings from earlier occult books.