The Fake Frontier: How Secret Societies Rewrote American History with Michelle Gibson
What if the "Wild West" and the reconstruction of America were actually a massive cover story for reclaiming an advanced, pre-existing civilization?
Michelle Gibson returns to InnerVerse to pull back the curtain on the Sanitary Fairs and Secret Societies like the Odd Fellows, who oversaw the 19th-century reset. We explore the "Circuit Board" nature of our cities and how the narrative was meticulously "clowned" to hide the truth of our powerful ancestors.
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Core themes
Questioning The Odd Fellows Creed
Michelle encountered the Odd Fellows while researching Salem, Oregon, where the order is credited with building the Grand Theater, a structure that once carried a tower it no longer has, a removal the conversation links to disabling an energy function on the grid. Chance reads out the order's tenets of friendship, love and truth and its command to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan. Michelle asks where all those orphans came from, pointing to a mud flood and a reset century, while Chance turns to Webster's 1828 dictionary to read relieving the distressed as taking possession of numbered people.
Lavish Fairs In The Middle Of A War
The United States Sanitary Commission, created by federal legislation in June 1861 and led throughout by Unitarian clergyman Henry Whitney Bellows, is said to have been funded by sanitary fairs that began with a two day event in Lowell, Massachusetts and peaked with New York's Metropolitan Fair, which raised over a million dollars in 1864. Michelle describes a three mile Chicago parade of a hundred produce wagons, then a final 1865 fair, held after the war had already ended, where Grant, Sherman and Hooker spoke and General Grant's horse was raffled. She asks where a nation at war found the wherewithal, and staged is the word they settle on.
Doubting Folk Heroes And Firsthand Accounts
Father Eusebio Kino, the Jesuit missionary Michelle describes as Arizona's first rancher, has a statue in the US Capitol and a push to make him a saint. The conversation calls it a messiah program, where a folk hero doubles as the explanation for structures no one person could have built. Michelle turns the same suspicion on Frederick Law Olmsted, the Sanitary Commission's first executive secretary, who toured the South and Texas for The New York Times before he was a landscape architect, and on George Templeton Strong's two thousand page diary, reading such accounts as seeds of a new narrative.
Bread, Circuses And Virtual Worlds
Michelle connects the Odd Fellows to Robert Ripley, buried in one of their cemeteries, and reads the circus, the freak show and Believe It or Not as distractions from what really matters. She argues a virtual world was inserted at the very start of the reset, Chance notes that the panic over Facebook becoming Meta misses that a metaverse already exists, and the pair agree television and radio were virtual reality all along. Chance calls worldview warfare the only kind the elites really wage, and when a souvenir Book of Bubbles from the New York fair shows a jester, he hears the clown beside the crown.
Circuit Board Earth And Mud Flood Theories
Michelle lays out her view of the Earth as a circuit board, its buildings placed as points in a free energy electromagnetic grid, and argues that energy companies have grown rich off ancient technology. She believes the original civilization was destroyed by a deliberately caused cataclysm within the last couple of hundred years, with frequency weapons or earthquake liquefaction among possible triggers, and reads old images of mules on rail lines as crews digging it all out. Chance offers a recent guest's theory that a realm-wide electrolysis event produced the mud, and Michelle calls it as good an explanation as she has heard, though she holds it was deliberate.
Quotes
“The 19th century was a reset century when they were digging a lot of the infrastructure out and then making it serviceable again.”
“Worldview warfare, I think, is really the only kind of warfare that the elites wage against us.”
“Until the internet age, we didn't have the resources to go and check all this stuff up, and that's how the story got perpetuated.”
“Just because they said they built something in a certain year doesn't mean they did. It means they were well-organized and got all the paperwork done.”
“It is the crown that's doing the clowning. They're clowning us. Our entire civilization is a big prank.”
“I think the energy companies and everybody have gotten rich off of ancient technology.”
“I think no matter what it looks like right now, we have the ability to survive anything if we recognize our connection to source and don't let the fear poison our worldview.”
“We might be in the middle of another reset or an attempted reset, but I think there's other forces at work that are a counterforce to that, and that it's not a done deal.”
Michelle Gibson has appeared on InnerVerse twice to discuss alternative-history topics such as the "Mudflood" hypothesis, hidden architectural history, ley lines, and a theorized global "world biofield."
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