Howard E. Hill

Howard Edward Hill (August 8, 1897 - March 2, 1994) was a American journalist, advertising agent, public relations advisor, movie critic, and writer of guides on healthful living and attaining prosperity.

"Amazing Explorations, Inc." (1947)
During 1947, Hill related a strange story to speaking clubs in Los Angeles, including the La Brea Optimists in late June and the Los Angeles Transportation Club in early August, about an apparent discovery by a Dr. F. Bruce Russell in 1931 of a cave system in the Colorado Desert on the Arizona-Nevada-California borderland that contained "the perfectly preserved bodies of 112 citizens of Atlantis," these measuring "seven and eight-foot" in height, and further that there was evidence that "80,000 years ago the citizens of Atlantis set off an atomic chain reaction that killed every person on earth." If this were not sufficient to pique interest, Hill elaborated with more details, as related in press reports, including that the caverns contained a ritual hall with elements reminiscent of Masonic traditions, that there had been found hieroglyphs carved in polished granite, that the giants wore garments of "unknown animal" hair (with a texture similar to "gray dyed sheepskin"), and that there were the trophy remains of "dinosauria, saber-toothed tigers, imperial elephants and other beasts" on display in niches within the caves. A corporation called "Amazing Explorations, Inc." was said to have been formed around the time the stories first were told, intended to conduct further exploration of the caverns, and there was a follow-up report on the discovery by one Ben Allen of a 22 inch (55.8 cm) long, 8 inch (20.3 cm) wide, footprint found on a gypsum flat in the region where the caves were supposed to be, but later accounts indicate that the group of interested parties found themselves unable to relocate the site of the supposed caves again and interest thereafter evaporated.


 * &mdash; a solicitation for a talk by Howard E. Hill entitled "Amazing Exploration," to be held Monday, August 5, 1947, at a noon meeting of the Los Angeles Transportation Club, hosted in the Renaissance Room at the Biltmore Hotel.
 * &mdash; a solicitation for a talk by Howard E. Hill entitled "Amazing Exploration," to be held Monday, August 5, 1947, at a noon meeting of the Los Angeles Transportation Club, hosted in the Renaissance Room at the Biltmore Hotel.