A WITNESS TO HISTORY
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A Witness To History - An Introduction
At first glance, history is a tightly woven tale of struggling civilizations, conflicting ideals and advancing humanity. Bursting with individuals and movements that have brought mankind to the present. Nestled underneath the perfect linear narrative in the history books are dark, mysterious figures and obscure happenings in this world that have gone unseen, but are…
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King of the Wolves
The destruction of a culture is through the fear and ignorance of others. And the rest of the world is left to morn the loss of knowledge. The Aztec culture, because of the briefness that it existed in the annals of history and the destruction of the society by the Spanish, makes it one of…
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The Curse of Eckubine
Faded history has a way of remaining the most mysterious. Porous details set against contrasting fact, added to provincial superstition makes for a good story and an even better legend. At first glance this story reads like the set-up to a theistic cautionary tale. It is, however the clouding of faith and the ignorance…
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The Fish-Men of El Infierno Está Oscuro
In the summer of 1973, twelve Geology students from the University of Oxford were traveling to the Tierra del Fuego Province, in Argentina to study seismic activity at the Magallanes-Fagnano Fault. During their flight over the Atlantic Ocean, the Hawker Siddeley HS 125 Trident they were traveling in hit a massive squall, which would later…
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The Strange Occurrence in Holcome, KY
George Santayana once famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it”. And I say those that are not told the truth are doomed from the beginning. As life happens to individuals, stories are passed along, details are changed, and events exaggerated, all to fit some perception of how history should…
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The Mystery of the First Vampire
Like an unfinished painting, the significance of history and those who affect it, cannot fully be seen all at once. Time is needed to fully understand context, and placement among similarities singles out importance and clarity. Van Gogh was not appreciated in his own time, it took his death and the maturity of the form…Continue Reading
What Jacob Bridger Saw
In April of 1866, miners Jacob Bridger, Zane Wilkinson and the Cavet brothers, attempted to blast a four-foot wall at the end of the Greenway spur in Lincoln Mines in Walter’s Canyon, New Mexico. Working on behalf of the Greenway Mining Company out of San Francisco, California, the men were after what…
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