The Melungeon Mystery
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Secret Hoard of Silver
ben: People were suspicious about a this silver mine story, or the secret hoard of silver. They became connected to malungeons because of that report of someone who was expected to be impoverished suddenly seeming to have a lot of wealth. And they were looking at them as like, these ancient beings, almost, right? Ye, exactly. This is a symptom of othering, you know, of saying, these people look a little too different from us to be you know, maybe they look too different to actually be people. andd they believed it.
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