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Fear that ghouls would steal the body and hold it for ransom led followers of Wilbur

Glen Voliva at Zion City to conceal the fact of the death of a millionaire, James Curry

of Big Springs, Texas for nearly a week, or until a burglar-proof steel vault

could be installed at the Zion City Cemetery. Okay, first of all, what, and who? And why?

In the strange religious empire over which Wilbur Glen Voliva ruled, his authority was complete.

So let me get this straight. Voliva runs some kind of religious empire and his followers

are afraid of grave robbers? Mr. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, self-appointed censor of morals and manners

in Zion City, has ordained that his

policemen shall be equipped with quilts 15 feet square in which to wrap women wearing knickers

while taking them to jail.

Oh boy, women in pants.

Here we go.

Voliva says the earth is flat, rimmed by a high wall of ice to keep travelers and mariners from falling over the edge.

The sky is a solid dome resting on this ice wall.

The sun and stars are hung in the sky like chandeliers.

This guy runs his own religion, has his own town, thinks women should be arrested for wearing

pants, and he's a flat earther. Oh, let's do this.

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