IMAGINING Jeran Campanella walking the center aisle of his local parish dressed in a white alb with a cincture tied at the waist would be incredibly difficult to do—particularly for those of us who know him now. The personality behind YouTube channels...
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 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...
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 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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahTtDTW4vU8&t=171s THIS PARTICULAR INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED in a 17th century barn in Normandy, France. It was the dark before the dawn. During the commercial break, I went on a bug killing spree. Meanwhile, Robbie Davidson was stuck...
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 12:34 17 THE BEGINNING IS THE END I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. I’ve always wanted to be interviewed by Patricia Steere. Ever since coming over to the flat earth community in its toddler...
“Their weapons were ready, the mockers were trained, the prowlers were waiting.” Tom Gordon, Space Prison. 1 ONCE THE DEVIL “ROB SKIBA IS THE DEVIL,” my friend said. Bunyan. For the remainder of this article, that’s what we’ll call him—Bunyan (though I...
IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME AND PLACE to pick up a book, it was the 1960’s in Greenwich Village. Joe Taylor grew up on the Bible. His dad was a minister, and his grandfathers were deacons, the results of which garnished him with a thorough New and Old Testament...