Sheppton Mining Disaster

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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My special guest is author Maxim Furek here to discuss astonishing first-hand accounts from trapped miners that reportedly saw strange beings and entrances to Hollow Earth. Get the book Sheppton: The Myth, Miracle & Music on Amazon.

The Sheppton Mythology... In 1963, three miners were entombed more than 300 feet underground near remote Sheppton, Pennsylvania. Although two were eventually rescued, the other simply disappeared. Something fantastic happened in that soulless place devoid of forgiveness and light. It was a black hell, a total darkness where the ability to see depth or movement was eradicated. Vision was painfully ripped away by powerful forces and yet, even without the gift of sight, the trapped men were somehow able to see. While confined, the miners saw bizarre humanoid creatures and stairwells leading to a Golden City. They claimed to have been in the presence of his Holiness Pope John XXIII. Scholars, scientists and Vatican academics, all reached the same conclusion: the survivors were telling the truth about their ordeal. Some researchers have suggested that Sheppton is entwined with the controversial “Hollow Earth Theory,” while others claim it provides proof of life after death. “Timothy,” recorded by The Buoys, eerily paralleled Sheppton as it introduced allegations of cannibalism. Steeped in the miraculous, the supernatural and the dreadful, Sheppton has become greater than the sum of its parts. *************************************************************** Maxim W. Furek is a Music Journalist and avid student of the Coal Region. His investigation into Sheppton’s urban legend probes the difficult question: What really happened in the mine?

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Kaytown and on this edition of Mysterious Radio. Oh, I'm a rock journalist and I take a look at the
0:29.2	I'm a rock journalist and I take a look at the culture of rock and roll, I would say through a sociological lens.
0:37.0	So I've had what, three books published.
0:41.0	I used to write for various rock and roll magazines and you know do concert reviews and all that so that was pretty much my thing that I enjoyed the most and I always believe that music was
0:54.8	transformative you know I always believe that music was transformative. You know, music was important for civil rights and women's, the women's movement and the anti-Vietnam
1:01.6	war movement and songs sort of like blowing in the wind and I shall be released
1:06.0	and we shall overcome gave a lot of hope and you know and and optimism to people that were trying to make the world a better place.
1:17.0	So anyway, I was writing a book about the song Timothy, which was recorded by a group called The Boys in
1:26.4	1971.
1:28.0	And Timothy was banned by numerous radio stations because of inappropriate content and that content was cannibalism in a
1:36.0	mind shaft. Now Timothy from 1971 seemed to very closely parallel what happened at the Shepton Mind
1:44.9	disaster in 1963.
1:47.1	Again, allegations of cannibalism.
1:49.0	So I started out to write a book, a rock mythology, just about the
1:53.6	connection between the song and the mining disaster.
1:56.8	What happened was as I was researching Shepton, I found out that the miners saw things, experienced things, that the technology
2:08.9	was vaster and was utilized throughout the world, you know, saving a whole lot of people and all of these things seemed to be little known.
2:17.0	I mean, nobody knew about this.
2:19.0	So I started to research this and my book Shepton the Myth Miracle Music came out and that talked about the
2:26.3	paranormal and miraculous and grotesque and technological aspects of Shepton.
2:33.3	So I found something where I wasn't really looking.
2:37.1	I was looking for something else.
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