In 1934, at the foot of Northern California’s towering Mount Shasta, a geologist named J.C. Brown started telling a captivating story to anyone who would listen.
He spoke of an 11-mile tunnel filled with gold and giant skeletons, and said it led straight to the heart of Mount Shasta, an active volcano. Lots of people believed Brown, and soon, he was organizing an expedition into the tunnel.
But it never happened. Instead, mere days before the expedition was scheduled to depart, Brown mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
His story of the treasure-filled tunnel, however, has endured. Because like any good urban legend, it was just close enough to the truth to make it believable.
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