IN 2009 THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY was quietly re-established with little to no fanfare. Its founder, a man named Daniel Shenton (no proposed relation whatsoever to Samuel Shenton) claimed succession from the Zetetic astronomers, Samuel Rowbotham, and those under the...
WHEN LISTENERS BEGAN SENDING DAVID WEISS flat earth videos in 2014, he deleted them—every single last one. “I wouldn’t even look at a single minute of video,” he said. Flat earth was bad for business. And besides, flat earthists, it seemed, were derailing the very...
THE HOLLOW EARTH THEORY was apparently something to be tinkered with in 2014. Mark Sargent doodled with it. So did Chris Van Matre. Admiral Byrd, check. Flying saucers, check. Wooly Mammoth, check. One thing led to another… Eric Dubay, check…? Van Matre immediately...
ONE DAY IN THE SPRING OF 2015, 55-YEAR-OLD Bob Knodel got to thinking. Firstly, he thought about his training as a pilot—and then gyroscopes. He thought about space and satellite imagery too. Something didn’t add up right. “I was always, for the last 25 plus years—I...
1 THE TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME standing on her doorstep was the very tall, dark, and handsome from her dream—quite literally. To put it in slightly other terms, she had dreamed of this very scenario earlier that morning. Even his clothes were indistinguishable. Karen...
1 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM and mainstream propaganda had already taken its toll on forty-three year-old Paul Lindberg by the time he sat down one evening with his wife for dinner—which, on both accounts, is often how these things go. Between this and that, attending...
1 AS ONE DECADE GAVE WAY TO ANOTHER, the statistical estimate of homosexuals had ranged from twelve to twenty-five percent of San Francisco’s total population, with the average gay man having sexual encounters with at least five-hundred other men—twenty-eight percent...
SEPTEMBER | Rick Hummer IF THE MEDIA HAS ITS WAY; and believe me, they’ll try; then the end of the world will be met with sensationalism. Tuesday was a practice run. As the sun dawned over America’s eastern shoreline on the eleventh of September, 2001, New York...
1 FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, SHELLEY LEWIS knew exactly what she was going to do with her life. Ronald Reagan was still president when astronaut Alan B. Shepard walked into the room. The thirteen year-old was literally star struck. And she had good reason to be. After...
1 SAMUEL SHENTON WAS DEAD. It was 1972, and as the crew of the Apollo 17 readied to photograph the Blue Marble on NASA’s final moon mission, Lillian was faced with the prospect of what to do with her late husband’s work. Stacks of books and papers and boxes,...
1 AWAITING COLONEL JOHN GLENN’S RETURN TO EARTH was a handwritten message which simply read: OK, wise guy. Its author was none other than Samuel Shenton, world renowned and globally reviled flat earthist. In light of the three orbits which Glenn is claimed to have...
1 HE WAS A MARTIAL ARTIST AND A POET, and then finally one day in the spring of 1992 it occurred to twenty-one year old Zen Garcia that he was trapped behind four walls too many, and the view through his window was lacking. After abandoning church as a teenager he...
1 SEVERAL CONSIDERATIONS ARE PROBABLY in order as to why I distinctly recall the space shuttle Challenger disaster in real time—specifically the manner in which its memory has always been recollected. It’s literally burned into my mind. On the 28th of January, 1986 I...
1 “I DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS LIFE,” ROBBIE DAVIDSON INSISTED over the phone. “God intervened. He chose it. It was as if God was telling me, I have a plan. I have a purpose. You’re coming.” Davidson is undoubtedly referring to his former life in the Edmonton bar and...
1 WHEN ASKED, LIZ BAILEY CAN STILL RECITE the date with regimented smoothness, as though she were simply taking a butter knife slathered with raspberry jam to bread. I inquired. June 21, 1996—that’s the occasion in which fifteen year-old Liz Rolen asked the new kid in...
IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, FLAT EARTHIST Patricia Steere shocked the very movement which she had helped to nurture, facilitate, and ultimately create, by pulling the plug on her YouTube channel, "Flat Earth & Other Hot Potatoes." Actually, she pulled the plug on...
MANY TO MOST CONSUMERS MAKE THE HONEST mistake of confusing the STARBUCKS logo for a mermaid. And to a degree I guess that's slightly true. I saw a mermaid, or perhaps she's a siren, for years. Actually, I seem to recall my twenty year-old self, straining my eyes at...
THE SO-CALLED "CHURCH" as a separate entity from the houses of Judah and Israel, a third option, another dispensational age, or a thirteenth gate into the New Jerusalem, is a man made fable. It simply doesn't exist anywhere in Scripture. There's no such thing as a...
IF THE EARTH IS TRULY 6,000 YEARS OLD, then consider the fact that main stream "Science" has pushed the globe Earth narrative for nearly half that long, even before Yeshua walked the Earth, and probably much longer. This is of course assuming the timetable presented...
TESTAMENT OF BENJAMIN The Twelfth Son of Jacob and Rachel. CHAPTER 1 Benjamin, the twelfth son of Jacob and Rachel, the baby of the family, turns philosopher and philanthropist. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF BENJAMIN, which he commanded his sons to observe, after he had...
TESTAMENT OF JOSEPH The Eleventh Son of Jacob and Rachel. CHAPTER 1 Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob and Rachel, the beautiful and beloved. His struggle against the Egyptian temptress. THE COPY OF THE TESTAMENT OF JOSEPH. 2 When he was about to die he called...
TESTAMENT OF ASHER The Tenth Son of Jacob and Zilpah. CHAPTER 1 Asher, the tenth son of Jacob and Zilpah. An explanation of dual personality. The first Jekyll and Hyde story. For a statement of the Law of Compensation that Emerson would have enjoyed, see Verse 27. THE...
TESTAMENT OF GAD The Ninth Son of Jacob and Zilpah. CHAPTER 1 Gad, the ninth son of Jacob and Zilpah. Shepherd and strong man but a murderer at heart. Verse 25 is a notable definition of hatred. THE COPY OF THE TESTAMENT OF GAD, what things he spake unto his sons, in...
TESTAMENT OF NAPHTALI The Eighth Son of Jacob and Bilhah. CHAPTER 1 Naphtali, the eighth son of Jacob and Bilhah. The Runner. A lesson in physiology. THE COPY OF THE TESTAMENT OF NAPHTALI, which he ordained at the time of his death in the hundred and thirtieth year of...
TESTAMENT OF DAN The Seventh Son of Jacob and Bilhah. CHAPTER 1 The seventh son of Jacob and Bilhah. The jealous one. He counsels against anger saying that "it giveth peculiar vision." This is a notable thesis on anger. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF DAN, which he spake to...
TESTAMENT OF ZEBULUN The Sixth Son of Jacob and Leah. CHAPTER 1 Zebulun, the sixth son of Jacob and Leah. The inventor and philanthropist., What he learned as a result of the plot against Joseph. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF ZEBULUN, which he enjoined on his sons before...
TESTAMENT OF ISSACHAR The Fifth Son of Jacob and Leah. CHAPTER 1 Issachar, the fifth son of Jacob and Leah. The sinless child of hire for mandrakes. He appeals for simplicity. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF ISSACHAR. 2 For he called his sons and said to them: Hearken, my...
TESTAMENT OF JUDAH The Fourth Son of Jacob and Leah. CHAPTER 1 Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. He is the giant, athlete, warrior; he recounts heroic deeds. He runs so fast that he can outstrip a hind. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF JUDAH, what things he spake to...
TESTAMENT OF LEVI The Third Son of Jacob and Leah. CHAPTER 1 Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. A mystic and dreamer of dreams, a prophet. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF LEVI, the things which he ordained unto his sons, according to all that they should do, and what...
TESTAMENT OF SIMEON The Second Son of Jacob and Leah. CHAPTER 1 Simeon, the second son of Jacob and Leah. The strong man. He becomes jealous of Joseph and is an instigator of the plot against Joseph. THE COPY OF THE WORDS OF SIMEON, the things which he spake to his...