The Goat--through the eyes of the GOAT.

NOTE: The YouTube version off this has a video presentation to go along with the narrative!

It can be found here:

If you are in any way familiar with the saga of the Ruggles Brothers' 1892 robbery, killing and subsequent lynching at the hands of an anonymous, midnight populace, you may think that Smith Mountain Cemetery was their final resting place.

As I discovered a few weeks ago, this is not the case, and while that part may not be a mystery to everyone, the actual burial site has been in obscurity for many years. Through a combination of Providence, technology and an obsessive need to keep looking, I have found it. Here is the brief rundown.

In which I fall on my sword for complete and utter dereliction. But I have my reasons.

if you listened to Episode #52, you'll get it.

If you haven't --DO SO NOW.

In episode 17 of my podcast, I discuss the 1909 Airship disaster in Redding, California that claimed one life and damaged another. Perhaps you remember my peripheral fascination with the 78 year old man that was trampled in the melee--, and the brief itemization of physical traumas he survived before--and after this one.

I went back, simply intending to make a more detailed itemization of my hero-sub-plot--dude.--and discovered that he was a ridiculously-active human being, with his fingers in everything.

And he was present during some of the Wests's most formative years.

My last show was hauntingly prophetic. I had no idea that a historical preservation site in Indonesia--@Indonesia_Graveyard -- was going to become the absolute incarnate definition of what I was talking about.

Ruri and Reyhan are the definition of God's messengers. They located a lost burial place--belonging to a man-- for his children on the other side of the world.

And changed lives.

They deserve their own episode.

Sorry for the late entry this week. I've been slammed. But I'll explain why.

It's 1945, and World War II is about to come to an abrupt end at the hands of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The US naval vessel responsible for delivering the radioactive uranium, would make port, and then head for the Philippines--where a Japanese submarine would have the vessel completely submerged in twelve minutes with a brutal complement of torpedoes.

This is their story, and an aftermath with an even more cruel end--highlighting the transcendent nature of honor, and the dark responsibility it can heap upon a person.

A 1979 excavation of a small Victorian house in Sacramento opened a three dimension vortex of a world 100 years prior. This is the story of May Woolsey. Dead at 12, her story and life live on.

A brief look at a phenomena that you have every reason to find suspect at some point.