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Flat Earth City
Episode 135

Flat Earth City

True Weird Stuff · Tony Garcia

October 25, 20251h 9m

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<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Flat Earth City</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div> <div> <div>Wilbur Glenn Voliva was a self-proclaimed prophet, flat-earth crusader, and autocratic ruler of Zion, Illinois. This fiery preacher took over John Alexander Dowie&rsquo;s religious utopia in the early 1900s, ruling with an iron fist, Volivabanning everything from whistling to reading newspapers on Sundays. But his most infamous crusade was against science itself: Voliva loudly declared that the Earth was flat, even offering thousands of dollars to anyone who could prove it was round.</div> </div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div>