Editing Fred Crisman (section)

===Promotion of the Shaver mystery===
In June 1946, ''Amazing Stories'' published a pseudonymous letter by Crisman in which he claimed to have battled "mysterious and evil" underground creatures to free himself from a cave in [[Myanmar|Burma]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="Gulyas">{{cite book |last1=Gulyas |first1=Aaron John |year=2015 |chapter=Paranoid and Paranormal Precursors from the 1960s to the 1990s |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81LpCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 |title=The Paranormal and the Paranoid: Conspiratorial Science Fiction Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81LpCQAAQBAJ |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=30–31 |isbn=9781442251144 |access-date=August 7, 2015 |archive-date=July 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727011253/https://books.google.com/books?id=81LpCQAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>
Wrote Crisman:
<blockquote>I flew my last combat mission on May 26 [1945] when I was shot up over Bassein and ditched my ship in Ramaree Roads off Chedubs Island. I was missing five days. I requested leave at Kashmere. I and Capt. (deleted by request) left Srinagar and went to Rudok then through the Khesa pass to the northern foothills of the Kabakoram. We found what we were looking for. We knew what we were searching for.
For heaven's sake, drop the whole thing! You are playing with dynamite. My companion and I fought our way out of a cave with submachine guns. I have two 9" scars on my left arm that came from wounds given me in the cave when I was 50 feet from a moving object of any kind and in perfect silence. The muscles were nearly ripped out. How? I don't know. My friend has a hole the size of a dime in his right bicep. It was seared inside. How we don't know. But we both believe we know more about the Shaver Mystery than any other pair.
You can imagine my fright when I picked up my first copy of Amazing Stories and see you splashing words about the subject.
Do not print our names, we are not cowards, but we are not crazy.<ref name="LeF">LeFevre & Lipson</ref></blockquote>
The letter was quoted in the September 1946 issue of Harper's Magazine as an example of a crackpot letter. In May 1947, ''Amazing Stories'' published a second Crisman letter, this time identifying him by name.  In this letter, Crisman claimed to have traveled to Alaska with his friend Dick, who was killed there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v21n05_1947-05_cape1736|title=Amazing Stories v21n05 (1947 05) (cape1736)|date=May 21, 1947|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name="LeF"/>