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What Filled the Cistern Sixteen Miles From Any Water?
What Filled the Cistern Sixteen Miles From Any Water?
Fear that something impossible happened: a decommissioned concrete cistern on a southeastern Oregon ranch was full to within three inches of its rim after a months-long drought, with its steel lid thrown six feet away at a forty-degree angle - so how did thousands of gallons appear in a sealed tank sixteen miles from the nearest water? What pushed the lid outward, and why did the rancher wait eleven days before telling anyone?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the property history, and the documented observations from the…
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