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The Lantern That Outlived a Missing Man: Crossroads Fork Secret
The Lantern That Outlived a Missing Man: Crossroads Fork Secret
Cold and specific: a hand-punched tin lantern, hinged candle door and a candle burned to nothing, was found tied with modern baling wire twelve feet up a 1953 utility pole at Crossroads Fork on June 4, 2009 - and the lantern’s style dates to 1870-1890. Why was a nineteenth-century lantern left aloft where a 22-year-old man named Grant Phillips vanished on June 17, 1891, and who kept tracing that disappearance across a century?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries in Harlow and Merritt County that connect the…
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