- What do Monica Lewinsky, O.J. Simpson
and Cindy Crawford have in common?
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- They all live in Brentwood, an upscale
neighborhood in the west end of Los Angeles. Monica Lewinsky, key figure
in the current White House scandal, arrived at the home of her father,
Dr. Bernard Lewinsky, at 12224 Darlington Avenue on Tuesday, February 3,
1998.
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- "And when the upscale Brentwood
district was recovering from the notoriety and gawkers brought by the O.J.
Simpson case, the juggernaut of news coverage descended for a second time
upon Bundy Drive, Gretna Green Way and other streets familiar to trial
watchers." (See USA Today for February 5, 1998, page 3-A.)
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- "'It's a little deja vu,' said Elaine
Katz, 40, strolling past the scene with her leashed saluki-shepherd mix,
Shayne."
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- "Retired schoolteacher Joan Taylor,
75, struggled in vain to pull her family's Scotch terrier past the staked-out
journalists. 'He wants to see what's going on,' Taylor said, 'I can hardly
drag him home.'" (USA Today, February 5, 1998, ibid.)
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- "Lewinsky's father, Bernard, lives
just a few blocks from the condo where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald
Goldman were knifed to death in 1994." Nicole's condo is at 875 South
Bundy Drive.
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- "The oncologist's home is also not
far from O.J.'s old estate" at 360 North Rockingham Avenue "where
the media camped out for months before and after his sensational murder
trial."
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- "Los Angeles Police Department Sgt.
Terri Brinkmeyer said cops expected 'a media circus' in Brentwood. 'But
we're used to that, especially in this area.'" (See the New York Post
for February 4, 1998, "Circus Is Back in Brentwood," page 3)
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- Probably neither the Lewinskys nor O.J.
nor supermodel Cindy Crawford, who owns "a 4,000- square-foot, four-bedroom,
Spanish-hacienda-style home in Brentwood" (See the Globe for February
10, 1998) are aware of the strange events that occurred in the district
back in January 1934, which resulted in some wild claims and a mysterious
disappearance.
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- In 1933, self-styled inventor and mining
engineer G. Warren Shufelt came to Los Angeles, hoping to interest backers
in his "radio X-ray" device, a kind of early-day subterranean
sonar.
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- Visiting Brentwood, then a new post-World
War One subdivision, Shufelt tested his invention and discovered underground
tunnels running south to Santa Monica and the ocean. He also discovered
tunnels deep beneath the area of Dodger Stadium, the Central Library and
Fort Moore Hill, now site of the Los Angeles Unified School Distrct headquarters.
"To understand his find, Shufelt said he took his secret to Arizona,
to a famous Hopi Indian leader known as Chief Greenleaf."
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- "The Hopi tale the chief told him
begins about 3,000 B.C. with a highly advanced race known as the Lizard
People. According to legend, after a fire or meteor nearly destroyed their
culture, the mysterious race built three underground cities along the Pacific
coast."
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- "The capital of this underground
world was said to be beneath downtown Los Angeles. (Another city was under
Mount Shasta and nobody knows where the third city was.) Caverns and tunnels
housing a thousand families supposedly were created with an unknown chemical
solution that melted bedrock. Tunnels and rooms were said to be filled
with gold--then a symbol of long life rather than wealth--and lined with
a cement superior to any known to modern man."
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- "The legendary lost city of tunnels
was built in the shape of a lizard, also a Hopi symbol for longevity."
(See the Los Angeles Times for July 22, 1996, "L.A. Scene--The City
Then and Now" by Cecilia Rasmussen.)
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- The Brentwood tunnel supposedly runs
parallel to Sunset Boulevard, turning south beyond Bundy Drive, crossing
San Vicente Boulevard and passing under the Brentwood Country Club before
heading for Santa Monica.
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- Shufelt announced his plans to excavate
the reputed "temple room" under Fort Moore Hill. (See the Los
Angeles Times for January 29, 1934.) "The city gave Shufelt permission
to drill down to 1,000 feet, but after only reaching 350 feet, drilling
stopped for fear of a cave-in. Breathless newspaper accounts were never
followed up, and Shufelt disappeared." (Los Angeles Times, July 22,
1996)
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- A local psychic of the 1930s, Edith Elden
Robinson of Paco Rivera said she had a vision of "a vast city...in
mammoth tunnels extending to the seashore," with a few running under
Brentwood. (Editor's Comment: Prehistoric tunnels have also been found
under Rome, Italy, apparently predating the Etruscan period, 1300 to 300
B.C. The Etruscans, a.k.a. the Rasenna, founded "Roma" on the
site of an earlier city--Saturnia.)
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