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There once was a priceless book. We know its name because it is mentioned or referred to by a few of the oldest bits of manuscripts we have from ancient times. Carl Sagan referred to it in a couple of his books. It was called “The True History of Mankind Over the Last 100,000 Years.” [...]

Here’s a bit of fun for Thanksgiving Day. How right are we when we piece together scattered bits and pieces, decide what goes together, make our educated guesses, and write history? Sometimes… not so much. In the spirit of the wonderful book “Hotel of the Mysteries” comes this short video. It seems it was made [...]

When you start digging into Hidden History, one of the words that sets alarm bells off is “Atlantis.” For the record, Atlantis has been “found” in the Sahara, in the Mediterranean, off Bimini, in the American Southwest, off Japan, and on the islands of Thera, Crete, and Sardinia among others. More books and webpages are [...]

We arrived at the building on Monday morning to piercing alarms. Our alarm system just wouldn’t shut up. We went through the building and couldn’t find fire but then we entered the auditorium (we call it the Family Room). In a furnace room up near the room where ladies change clothes before baptism, water was [...]

From Reno, Nevada head eighty miles northeast to the tiny town of Lovelock, population 1,894. You could drive through it in less than a minute and not know that something remarkable happened here a long, long time ago… and was uncovered in 1911.
It was in 1911 that guano miners (guano is bat droppings. It is [...]

Normally, the phrase “Slave Colony” refers to an outpost created in West Africa where freed slaves were sent as an act of (usually misguided) kindness on the part of Lincoln or those who followed him. However, the phrase sometimes pops up to describe towns where black people flourished before, during, and after the Civil War.
When [...]

I just got back from visiting my father. Thanks to all of you for your prayers. He is doing great. It turns out that he didn’t have a heart attack. He was merely severely dehydrated and that caused some frightening physical symptoms. The lump in his abdomen wasn’t cancer, but a hernia — one they’ve [...]

Before I hit the road into internet-free Eastern Kentucky (I exaggerate. A little), I’ll tell you about my experience last Thursday. It all started three years ago. One Wednesday night after Connections I got home to find a message on our machine from one of our elders. Would I accept a phone call later that [...]

I’m in a hotel in Oak Ridge, Tennessee — a nice little town a few miles outside of Knoxville, one of my favorite places in the US. My four day event here was chopped down to a one and a half day event due to budgetary considerations. That messed up some travel plans, but it’s [...]

I love stopping at those quirky little places beside the road; the ones that claim to be the home of mummified giants, endless echoes, or “the Thing,” but my favorite stops are the tourist traps that claim to be a place where gravity and space are… well, off a bit. There’s one in the Upper [...]