Case file · High strangeness
Erks, the city beneath Uritorco
Erks is a modern myth of a hidden subterranean city of extraterrestrial or spiritual beings under Cerro Uritorco and the Ongamira area of Córdoba, attributed to Ángel Acoglanis of Rosario in 1983.
1983 CE · -30.85, -64.50 · status: claim
The account
Groups of mystics, including one from La Plata, searched the hills for its entrances, and Capilla del Monte built a whole New Age and UFO-tourism economy around the mountain from the 1980s on. The 1986 'Pajarillo footprint' landing trace three years later seemed to many to confirm the hills' special status.
The sceptical view
The city has no physical evidence and a known modern author; it follows the pattern of older 'hidden city' myths such as Agartha and Shambhala.