Imagine this. It's 1894. A Mormon bishop wakes up from a dream drenched in sweat,

convinced that the angel Maroni had just led him to a mountain east of Salem, Utah,

where inside lies a Nephite gold mine. Not a metaphorical one, a literal treasure vault of ancient ore, golden plates,

the sort of Laban, and divine instructions to dig. This wasn't just a dream. This was a calling,

and John Hiram Coil would spend the rest of his life chasing it, tunneling into prophecy,

defying church leaders, and convincing thousands that God

had led a safety net buried in the Wasatch Mountains. Over a century later, the mine still hadn't produced

a single ounce of gold, but that doesn't stop believers from holding onto their stock certificates

like their Willy Wonka's golden tickets.

Welcome to one of the strangest, most enduring folk prophecies in Mormon history.

This is the story of the dream mind, and this is Mormonism Live. All right All right, folks, Radio Free Mormon will be joining me shortly.

So I'll see him here in the studio in just a moment.

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In the meantime, let's go ahead and put this up on the stage. And this is the episode on the Dream Mine. I've been preparing this one for a couple of weeks

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