The Rise and Fall of Flat Earthers and Zion

In the early 1900s, Zion, Illinois was almost close to a Flat Earth cult. That town was originally founded as a very fundamentalist religious town. It was mainly run by one church who had a very charismatic leader. And he used that theory to his advantage. He took over the town schools and promoted Flat Earth theory through them. They're just sort of like magpies picking up little pieces of evidence and hoarding them in some mishmash of strange beliefs.