Alex Chionetti is an award-winning journalist, explorer, and filmmaker. A consulting producer for several seasons of Ancient Aliens, his documentaries have been broadcast on Fox, NBC, A&E, History Channel, and other international networks. The discoverer of two lost cities in the Andean region and a member of the Explorers Club, he lives near New York City.

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FOREWORD May We Not Be Ashamed of the Future
by Javier Sierra

PROLOGUE To Believe or Not to Believe

1 Green Labyrinth

2 The Ecuadorian Jungle: The Cradle of Civilization

3 Golden Mysteries of the Andes

4 The Original Discoveries of Juan Moricz

5 The Intraterrestrial Atlanteans

6 The Mormon Expedition to the Tayos Cave (1968)

7 Julio Goyén Aguado: A Basque Mystery

8 The Gold of the Gods

9 Father Crespi’s Museum of the Impossible

10 Past Stories, Recent Searches

11 The War between Researchers of the Tayos

12 From Scotland with Love: The Parallel Lives of Stanley Hall

13 The Impossible Libraries

14 The Expedition to the Coangos River

15 Psychic Archaeology and the Tayos Mystery

16 The Curse of the Tayos Caves

EPILOGUE
The Tayos Manifesto Appendices

APPENDIX A
Chronology of Events Related to the Tayos Caves

APPENDIX B Chronology of Alex Chionetti’s Explorations

APPENDIX C
Statement of Moricz’s Lawyer Peña Matheus

APPENDIX D
Stanley Hall’s Letters

Bibliography

Index

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