The Melungeon Mystery
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Everybody in a Jonathan Swift Book Is Based on His Encounters
There is a legend of a silver mine in that area. It's called swift's silver mine. The reason it is thought to exist is because of the journal of an englishman named jonathan swift. He claims that he discovered this mine, until things went wrong and he ended walling it up. People still celebrate this a they conjecture over whether it's in tennessee or virginia. Th i believe there's like an annual celebration for the mine. There are people who are looking for it as we speak. But a jon Nathan swift, if you, if you dig tohis story, he's a kaiser. Sose man, he'm a ghost.
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