Known for its enigmatic allure, Mount Shasta has long been shrouded in mystery, and a family from California recently experienced its strange allure firsthand.
On June 23, lifelong California resident Karrie Ann Snure and her daughter Jordan embarked on a horseback excursion through the mountainous terrain when they were startled by odd, eerie screeches reverberating through the forest.
Driven by curiosity, the duo veered off the path, delving into the thick brush nearby. There, they encountered an unusual sight: no fewer than 100 solar-powered Bluetooth speakers embedded in the earth.
“This feels like an apocalypse,” Snure remarked in a video she shared on Facebook. “It’s like someone is trying to summon something. What on earth is going on?”
The further they ascended the mountain, the more speakers they uncovered, cleverly hidden amidst the foliage.
One isolated speaker appeared to be blasting a sermon-like recording that Snure said mentioned salvation.
As the mother and daughter headed home in the fading light, they made one final discovery: what appeared to be an entire field of speakers, all emitting eerie noises across the mountainside.
‘There are another hundred of them out there,’ Snure said in a second video, which captured what sounded like screams echoing through the forest. ‘It’s like this Lemurian beacon system. I have no idea.’
A mother and daughter stumbled upon hundreds of mysterious solar-powered Bluetooth speakers while riding horses on Mount Shasta
The speakers were blaring white noise that at some times sounded like humans screaming
Snure was referring to a long-running New Age legend surrounding Mount Shasta that claims the mountain is home to a hidden underground city inhabited by descendants of the mythical lost civilization of Lemuria.
Many believe a complex system of tunnels beneath the volcano leads to Telos, a subterranean crystalline city.
According to myth, this city is inhabited by the Lemurians, a technologically advanced society of survivors from a lost Pacific continent
Referring to the first field of speakers she and her daughter found, Snure said: ‘It was 100+ maybe even 200 solar-powered speakers, I assume preprogrammed speakers scattered around.
She described the sounds as white noise, as the speakers were all playing the same thing.
‘The ones that were placed by themselves, you could make out a human voice coming out of them, repeating a mantra,’ Snure shared on Facebook.
‘There weren’t any houses anywhere close by within miles, and nothing to ward off anything, so I guess this was definitely a summoning of some kind. What a strange experience.’
Snure said on Facebook that she ‘hiked back into the speaker forest’ on Thursday to take another look.
One isolated speaker appeared to be blasting a sermon-like recording that Snure said mentioned salvation
As the mother and daughter headed home in the fading light, they made one final discovery: what appeared to be an entire field of speakers, all emitting eerie noises across the mountainside
She reportedly confirmed on OnX maps that the speakers are on private property near the California Government Lands.
‘I still have absolutely no idea who put them there or why… but at least now we know the mountain wasn’t trying to summon us,’ said Snure.
There has been no official explanation from authorities yet.
Mount Shasta is considered mysterious because it combines a striking, solitary volcanic presence with centuries of Indigenous sacred lore, New Age spiritualism and UFO sightings.
Karie Ann Snure was riding with her daughter when they came across the speakers
Long before New Age theorists arrived, local Native American tribes, such as the Klamath and Modoc, viewed the mountain as the center of creation.
They believed it was a bridge where the Great Spirit descended from heaven to Earth.
The mountain is also a frequent subject of UFO sightings and alien lore.
While meteorologists attribute many of these sightings to the mountain’s peculiar lenticular cloud formations, believers maintain that the area harbors extraterrestrial bases.