Marching to Shibboleth

a sordid story of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism, and figs

Forty miles north of Chicago lies Zion, IL, a sleepy city with a sordid history of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism... and figs?

Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 6

Tags: "Doctor" John Alexander Dowie, "First Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ" 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition Ahmadiyya Movement Australia Chicago, IL Christianity cult faith healing Illinois Melbourne Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad New York, NY Presented by #13 Protestantism quackery Sydney, NSW United Kingdom United States of America VIC

Published: February 8, 2021

We Live Inside

greetings from the inside of the Hollow Earth

Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed may have been a madman, or the Messiah, but only he was bold enough to tell the truth: that we live on the inside of a hollow Earth.

Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, Most Popular, People & Places, Series 4

Tags: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition American Civil War Ann O'Delia Diss Debar Chicago, IL communism cult Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed "Koresh" eclectic medicine faith healing Florida Fort Myers, FL geodetics Harmony Society hollow Earth Koreshan Unity Messiah New York, NY Presented by #13 pseudo-science religion San Francisco, CA The Constant

Published: August 10, 2020