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In the early 1980's, my older brother, Mark Petersen, started volunteering at a radio station in a log cabin with grass growing on it's roof near North Pole, Alaska. Known as King Jesus North Pole (KJNP), it broadcast religious messages to native people in Alaska's interior and even into the Soviet Union. Mark tells us what it was like working at a station where he butchered his own meat and sent  on-air messages to trappers and gold miners in Alaska's remote regions.

Photo of KJNP Courtesy of Carol M Highsmith

KJNP
Mark's YouTube Channel: Local Highlights

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In 1993, Lisa Nicolle Hamilton's family moved into an old LDS church building built just after the American Civil War. She talks about what it was like growing up in the old building and how her family adapted the building into a home and the community's reaction to the church's new use.

Lisa's YouTube Channel
The Old Grantsville Church
Twinpectol (Lisa's brothers' band with the song about living in the Church)
Hey Kim and Katie (Lisa's relatives' podcast)

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A strange tale involving Spanish explorers, Mormon pioneers, a spiritualist, possible former members of Butch Cassidy's gang, and a school teacher from Wyoming's Bridger Valley who barely made it out of the Uinta's with his life.

Note: This Episode's icon is a photo of a known mine near Park City, UT and is not of any lost mines.

Sources Cited:
-Footprints In The Wilderness: A history of The Lost Rhoades Mines
-Faded Footprints: The Lost Rhoades Gold Mines & Other Hidden Treasures of the Uinta's
-The Gold of Carre-Shinob
-The Dominguez & Escalante Expedition
-Territorial Evolution of Mexico
-Deseret News Article About Spanish Mission in Utah
-Mormon Gold Coinage
-Lee Davidson's 1989 Article about Amasa A Davidson's 1920 near-fatal hunt for the gold
-Deseret News Article About Two Men Arrested While Hunting Gold

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In a lonely spot along the Wyoming/Utah Border in the Uinta Mountains is a place called "Suicide Park." On this episode I try to find out how it got its name.

Sources:
History of logging in Sweden
Video of man walking on logs in a river (starts about 6 mins 19 sec)
What and how much did lumberjacks eat?

The icon for this episode is a photo of logging from 1939 in Wisconsin courtesy of The National Archives.  

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Weird occurrences on a ranch in southwest Wyoming.

Here are some other stories like this one:

The Lady of Arlington

Teenaged Tours of an Old Prison

When your soda loving Bison gets murdered and mutilated - yes this really is a true story

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Across the Rocky Mountains Sheep Herders from places as diverse as Greece to Scotland and The Basque Region to Peru have left messages and drawings on Aspen Trees.

We talk with Dr. Alison Krögel about some of the 300 aspen carvings she has documented and the deeper meanings and connections she's found in them at times. Please check out her website The Aspen Archives  to learn more and see pictures of some of them.

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This episode's icon is courtesy of Mark Chapman.

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We interview a new mortician about why she chose to do what she does, what it's really like working with decedents, and why we have morticians and funerals.

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Despite their best efforts to remove all the bodies from a cemetery in Green River, Wyoming, remains of people and their graves continue to be found under and around The Sweetwater County Library.  In addition to physical items, staff and visitors have also claimed to have frightening and unusual encounters there.  We interview two people who've worked there about some the weird things they've seen and heard there.

If you visit The Sweetwater County Library, please be respectful and remember that it is first and foremost a library. 

Please check out Micki Gilmore's book about the library Spirits in the Stacks: Tales from Sweetwater County's haunted library

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Harold Slagowski started construction on what would become a local landmark over fifty years ago using a Skill saw. Today it remains independent and still going, selling thick hamburgers with handmade patties and thick milkshakes. We ask Harold what got it started and what kept it going.

Please eat at the Mountain View Drive Inn located at 551 WY-414, Mountain View, WY 82939.

Forbes article about how many businesses fail in the first few years.

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In the late 1990's CJ Young's orange soda loving bison Ralphie was found mutilated. This is their story.

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