When the Forest Service discovered a sixty-foot hole on Mount Shasta, the small community at its base immediately began to speculate. Was it simply an illegal gold mine? Was it the intrepid conspiracy theorist looking for a lost civilization? Or was it something more sinister? Will the truth come in the form of one man's harrowing coming-of-age story? Or will this become yet another urban legend like the ones used by locals to lure tourists?