“It was even more uncanny than if we had found it in the wilderness,” he wrote. He wrote in his travel diary that his first sight of the giant pyramid, along with its smaller cousins, rendered him almost speechless. The trader, Fred Meyer Schroder, observed several smaller pyramids in the distance. He was told that 5,000-year-old monastic documents not only contained information about these pyramids, but said the pyramids were extremely old when these records were made. An American trader, stumbling upon these amazing structures in 1912, asked his Buddhist monk-guide about them. And yet, over this century, a certain mythology has grown up around them. Until recently, Chinese officials have rebuffed all questions about these pyramids and all requests to view them. Not only was this extraordinary structure said to be the largest pyramid in the world (the Giant Pyramid of Egypt, by comparison, rises a mere 450 feet) but, in the valleys surrounding it, there were said to be dozens of other pyramids, some rising to an elevation almost as great. This was a pyramid which, legend has it, rises to the astonishing height of 1,000 feet – four-fifths the elevation of the Empire State Building. “I was searching for a pyramid which was said to have been, once, many millennia ago, multicolored, and to now be a dusty white. After outright denying their existence, the government finally admitted to the existence to New Zealand author Bruce Cathie of some ‘trapezoid tombs’, however a fabled white pyramid 1000 ft high has only ever been seen by a few Westerners this century. The government has planted trees on them to disguise them too. The Chinese govt have long denied the existence of 100 or so pyramids though the increasing tourism to the Xian tombs area (the Terracotta Army) is threatening the secrecy with tourists climbing the 25-100m pyramids for themselves. The worlds largest pyramid is rumored to be in Qin Lin county in a ‘forbidden zone’ of China, estimated at nearly 1,000 ft high and made of impounded earth and clay, and holding vast tombs. Two days after the report, the same newspaper published a photo, which was later attributed to Gaussman. Colonel Maurice Sheahan, Far Eastern director of Trans World Airlines gave an interview saying he had seen a gigantic pyramid 40 miles southwest of Xian. We were struck by the immensity of the thing.” The story was subsequently picked up by the New York Times, who ran a story about the pyramid on March 28, 1947. There was no way we could have landed, although we wanted to.
The remarkable thing was the capstone, a huge piece of jewel-like material that could have been crystal. This could have been metal, or some sort of stone. It looked like something out of a fairy tale. Directly below was a gigantic white pyramid. “I banked to avoid a mountain and we came out over a level valley. Walter Hain, an author and science writer, reports in his homepages (see his article below) how Gaussman described his first sighting of the pyramid. A US Air Force pilot named James Gaussman reportedly saw a white-topped pyramid during a flight between China and India in 1945. Early stories about the pyramids in China began right around the Second World War.
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