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When you talk about Hidden People, you also need to know some Hidden History. In the same way that most scientists embrace Darwinism even though it is riddled with problems, and many people embrace religions that are based on iffy evidence at best, archaeologists and historians have an agreed story and they are sticking with [...]

I’ll have a blog here later today or early tomorrow. Sorry for the delay. Last week the hotel I was in had intermittent wireless at best. That made even updating Facebook a chore. These are very busy days for me at Rochester as we reorganize to deal with our reality: living in an economy that [...]

I am in Washington State this week. Specifically, I am speaking at the Oak Harbor church on Whidbey Island. It is my third trip here. I love this area and these people. Of all the places I’ve traveled in the US, my two favorites are east Tennessee and right here. At home, Kami is helping [...]

Allow me to play around with this for awhile. In the world of history and archaeology, we find two major camps, each with a few minor denominations of their own. On the one hand we have standard, accepted stories about how man slowly crawled out of the sea, into and out of the caves, stood [...]

Many of you know about the tracks fossilized in the bedrock of a river in Glen Rose, Texas. Many dinosaur tracks are there, representing several different species, and every so often you come across… a human footprint. Some of the human footprints might not be footprints as they aren’t terribly clear, but others seem to [...]

Make sure you read the Hidden People blog I wrote yesterday. I added a few photos of the mound. Before I update, I wanted to tell you about a couple things.
Yesterday was Cass Park day; the day we go to a very bad part of Detroit and feed the homeless. It was 90+ degrees and [...]

When I was a little boy, my father took me to southern Ohio where we visited with people I would later learn were known as the Carmel Indians. They were really Melungeons who had migrated out of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky and relocated northeast of Cincinnati. He took me several places in that [...]

We’ve looked at the Melungeons before. They first entered public records when the area now known as Tennessee was being explored. The first white men to enter that area in force came across a body of white people who had beards and spoke — they guessed — Welsh. They were described as fierce warriors who [...]

I hope to post a new blog here tonight or tomorrow. It was supposed to be last night, but a family called and needed my help. A man — their nephew — who served two tours in Iraq and received multiple medals for courage and bravery, returned home, left the service and was carrying a [...]

I’ve gotten a lot of requests to revisit the Hidden People series. I have a ton of material but I’ve been sorting through it for the last year. This article can be considered part of a parallel series: hidden people, hidden journeys, and hidden history.
When I was about seven years old, my father was preaching [...]