I'm quite certain that actually happened near Fargo, ND some 15 or 20 years ago.....at least I heard this on a repeat of the radio station phone call. And yes there people walking the planet who are that intellectually challenged and gullible. I was also reminded of a scene in the Bing Crosby movie 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", set in the 6th century. He was about to be hanged for heresay or something, when he pulled out an almanac to tell the assembled crowd to set him free or he'd block out the sun.
My wife came home from the store and said the cashier was being serious when she was complaining that they should have scheduled the eclipse on a day with less clouds, she said she was "so mad"..... so yes, there are stupid people out there and they walk among us... The cashier continued the complaint to the next person in line. So I guess it is a "wives' tale" since my wife told me about it. Don't dare call her old
I don’t know fox, when I was looking up at the Eclips censure looked spherical to me. Maybe my eyes are messed up. Gotta love those flat earth people. They crack me up!
There was a religious sect here in SW Florida that believed that the Earth was round, but we lived on the inside of the sphere. There is a center that you can visit just off I-75 South of Ft. Myers. It's actually kind of interesting. As I recall, the name of the sect is The Koreshans. When the bride and I visited the Koreshan Center a few years back, the guide told us a funny story. As he was dying, the leader (I am presuming his name was Koreshan) announced that he would return. He did, but not in the way that he imagined. Several years after his death, the river next to the Koreshan sect encampment flooded badly. The Koreshan leader had been buried next to the river some distance upstream from the sect. Yup, you guessed it - his casket was scoured out of the ground and floated downstream where it washed up at the sect's camp.
