Fig.98being replenished by composting matter and gas is lighter than earth, over great periods of time
these gas pockets gradually work themselves closer and closer to the surface. Hapgood theorized
that such a super-pocket had possibly existed under the Lemurian continent and had burst open
during a past seismic event virtually swallowing the continent whole and then the ocean floor had
simply closed back over the fault and filled with sludge and debris eventually burying all trace.
Of course, his critics had a field day with such a theory saying that the concept was absurd,
pointing out that vegetable matter rots too close to the surface of the earth and the idea that there
could possibly exist, vast gas deposits, beneath the earth was totally and utterly preposterous.
It wasn’t until the latter half of the 20th century that Natural Gas was discovered in vast
deposits beneath the earth, much to the embarrassment of Hapgoods critics. But could such super-
pockets as Hapgood describes actually exist?
Knowing what we now know, the idea is not at all unreasonable. But what evidence exists of a
place such as Lemuria?
Recently, some amazing sunken ruins that many believe can be attributed to the lost continent
have actually been found by divers off the coast of Japan (fig.99). Some of these ruins are quite
spectacular and include Terraces, hexagonal post holes, columns, roads and other megalithic
structures (fig.100). For some reason these ruins have not been featured or even reported by any
western media at the time of writing this in 2006. I can however confirm for you that they were