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Wikipedia, 'Richard Sharpe Shaver' (encyclopedic synthesis with cited biography).

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Shaver Mystery / Richard Shaver

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Documents Shaver's life, psychiatric hospitalizations, the Mantong language claim, and the Ray Palmer promotion.

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Shaver Mystery / Richard Shaver

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Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907-1975) was an American writer/artist whose 1945 'I Remember Lemuria!' began the Shaver Mystery in Amazing Stories.

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Shaver claimed an ancient civilization of harmful 'Deros' and beneficial 'Teros' lived in caverns under the Earth and that his stories were fundamentally true.

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Shaver later claimed 'rock books' - stones embedded with legible pictures/text from the ancient races - and produced paintings/photos based on them.

Documented in his later life; widely regarded as pareidolia/artistic invention.
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Shaver's claims reflect a documented history of auditory hallucinations and psychiatric hospitalization.

Biographical record includes ER notes of persecution voices and multiple state-hospital commitments.
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Editor Ray Palmer promoted the stories as 'The Shaver Mystery' and presented them as rooted in truth.

Palmer's own autobiography and the magazine's framing confirm the promotion.
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