The Mystery and History of the
The Beaver Sands Portal
of �Beaver Oklahoma
by
D. Trammell �
A relatively unknown "strange place" is the Beaver Sands Portal. It is believed by �its few researchers to be the only constant and consistant opening interdimensional portal in the world. Its many and sundry victems have included bank presidents �and �even a few soldiers �over the course of its documented past. Why it hasn't attracted the attention �of the world in the manner of the Bermuda triangle is beyond compehension, when the nature of the events surrounding it are just as well documented. And just as bizarre.
The Beaver Sand hills in which this doorway to the ages is located are centuries old , lying along the �trail Coronado and his men took in their march �through the western trails. Its is documented in the journal of �the priest that accompanied �Coronado's expedition of the strange disappearence of three spanish soldiers who were engulfed in a brilliant green light. The priest called it in his �journal "the Devil's work" They camped just at the base of the �sand hills. �over the years that followed it was no longer just Indians and shamens who revered these hills as sacred and mysterious, but the many cowboys and westerners who traveled the old Jones-Plummer trail apparently had many �incidents to report. Its was a mainstay subject at the old trading post �which would later grow in the town of Beaver Oklahoma.
Is it just a place where �indian medicine men�have gone to meditate for centuries untold? is that how it got such a reputation?
The official records of the area tell a much different story. One best documented incidents involved a young woman named Nancy Wright , who wandered in the hills to meet her Beau, never to be seen from again in the summer of 1894. The whole town nearly turned out to search for her. Towns people from as far away as Gate and Forgan joined the Beaverites in the search. Though she was never found many �of these people came back with �tales of green lightning. The legend then seems to have died there, for none of the Local papers mentions a word, though �the Beaver Sheriff's records are still available from that time and they are quite interesting reading.
The first professional archeological investigations in the Sand Hills and the Portal began in 1931 when William Duncan Strong of the Smithsonian Institution (formerly the first professor of archeology at the University of Nebraska) visited archeological sites along the Beaver River with long-time avocational archeologist, Asa T. Hill. Previously Hill had made several forays into the area searching for the ancient indian camps reported to be at the edge of the Beaver River where it joins the �old Jones-Plummer trail. �They were the first modern day people to experience the Beaver Sands Portal. While Duncan Strong refused to divulge the existance of the Portal, Hill was not as tight lipped. He wrote a paper on its existance that was not well recieved in the current day's academic circles. In later years he refused comment on it. Strong (1935) reported on several of the surface collections made during this trip in his pioneering work, but managed to skirt most questions until the years dimmed the incident of the portal's rediscovery, (Introduction to Nebraska and Oklahoma Archeology.)
Another reconnaissance survey of western Oklahoma,in no mans land, including parts of the Sand Hills in the Oklahoma panhandle, was conducted in 1933 by French archeologist E. B. Renaud, who was working for the University of Denver. Renaud documented several collections and made surface collections at 18 sites in the western Sand Hills.His experience with the Portal was down played in the European press so as to protect his academic credentials, but his report is still on file in Denver.He refused �to engross himself in its draw, and set about his primary mission of indian artifacts, meaning to return with experts of other fields to give it proper consideration. His planned �expedition back never �materialised mysteriously. �His work in western Oklahoma (Renaud, 1934) was the first significant study of Sand Hills archeology. Although limited to a few days of survey, the work nonetheless demonstrated that human occupation was relatively widespread and of long duration as indicated by Folsom and "Yuma" (Paleo-Indian) artifacts, the oldest types known at the time. To this day The beaver sand hills is a prime spot for not only indian study, but also Paleontology. Many covert digs go undetected by Beaver residents. Why do they not also have experts investigating the Portal covertly...or do they?
Is this the site of
an interdimensional portal?...(pictured above and below. the Horten -Frelim
expedition In Beaver sandhills Aug.94, University of Nebraska)
World War II temporarily ended research, but the
second phase of archeological work began soon after the war during a boom
period of archeological salvage work made necessary by construction. The
first major project in the late 1940s was the proposed, but never constructed,
Including the Hills of Beaver County. Here several sites were extensively
tested during salvage excavations. Results of these excavations were later
published by Kivett (1952) and Gunnerson (1960).No more of the Portal was
�investigated till one more strange disappearance in 1977, a man visiting
from Colorado named Blil Gruendyke. He camped out by the small lake in the
hills. In the afternoon of the next day his car and campsite were found but
he never was. Local residents reported the same green brilliant lightning
that �night. The same brilliant light that has occurred only in the
Beaver sand hills for centuries.
So when will researchers return to cast some light on this mystery? When will the Locals of Beaver county come clean with the facts? Maybe they fear being overrun with attention, may be they truly do not know what mystery lies at their doorway. Only the future will answer these questions.
To day �Many people �frequent these Sand Hills in Beaver Oklahoma for sport and recreation. They are completely unaware of the Portal.
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