Episode #081: Swept Bare by Giant Broom of FIRE / Peshtigo & Hinckley, BIG BURN

Summary

In this episode, Randall Carlson explores the catastrophic wildfires of the past, including the devastating firestorm of 1871 in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. He also discusses the 1894 Hinckley wildfires and the 1910 Big Burn, connecting these historical events to a potential mysterious source of atmospheric gasses. The podcast provides a unique look into the patterns and causes behind these significant natural disasters.

Key takeaways

• 1The Peshtigo firestorm of 1871 in Wisconsin resulted in significant devastation.
• 2The Hinckley, Minnesota wildfires occurred in 1894, leading to intense speculation on their causes.
• 3The Big Burn conflagrations in northern Idaho and western Montana took place in 1910.
• 4The podcast suggests there may be a connection between these events and atmospheric concentrations of gases like methane and acetylene.
• 5Randall Carlson teams up with the Brothers of the Serpent, including Kyle and Russ, for the discussion.

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Transcript excerpt

That's ancientnutrition.com, code protein. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. And we are here for another episode looking at the great fires. At least I think that's where we're going, right, Randall? Continuing that investigation? Yes, we're going to be continuing that, yes, until we pretty much cover probably this episode and possibly one more to make sure we've got it all. It just depends on how much we get through at this recording. All right. I've actually got more material than we need to spend our time on, but I'm just kind of hitting the high stuff. But we've got some incredible eyewitness accounts that I want to go through. So it'll give everyone an opportunity to exercise their imagination and their powers of visualization. Although, as we can see, if we look at Brad, you'll see Brad is right there by the Illinois River, or is it the Chicago River? Yeah. And the city of Chicago is going up in a firestorm behind them. So if you haven't seen the previous two episodes, actually the three episodes, circle back and make sure you watch them, because this is part of a five-part series. Are we going to Hinkley? Yeah, we're going to go to Hinkley. Yeah, we're going to go to Hinkley. We're going to back up just a little bit to overlap and kind of pick up the thread of the narrative that we left off. And then, yeah, we're going to proceed into the Hinkley fire. All right. And before we get started, I do want to mention, we might talk about this later, but just briefly I want to mention the tours page is now up on RandallCarlson.com. ...

Excerpt from Kosmographia, Mar 12, 2022. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.