
Episode 385: Mormonism Part VI - X-Men Cult Edition
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The Legend of the Dream Mine
In 1894, the angel Moroni visited a prophet named John Hiram Coyle and showed him a vision of a mountain filled with treasure. That treasure had originally belonged to the Nephites but was stored in a mountain 12 miles south of Provo, Utah for when the last days on Earth came. And so Coyle gathered a group of fellow Mormon investors who believed the vision, and they started the dig on the dream mine in 1894. 50 years later, they were still digging a hole that was by then 3400 feet deep.
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