In 1987, a retired soil scientist named Edmund Pruett began mapping anomalous ground disturbances across a 200-mile stretch of rural Mississippi — not for law enforcement, not for any official body, but because something in the land kept bothering him. What he eventually handed over to the FBI was a hand-drawn atlas of 11 probable burial sites that federal agents dismissed as the obsessive hobby of a grieving widower. He was right about nine of them. This is the story of a man who learned to read the earth like a confession, and the bureaucratic machinery that almost made sure no one listened. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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