The Palisade Photographs
Three daguerreotypes from a Nauvoo photographer's unmarked studio, dated July 1844, depicting a mushroom-shaped cloud rising above Carthage.
Read moreThree daguerreotypes from a Nauvoo photographer's unmarked studio, dated July 1844, depicting a mushroom-shaped cloud rising above Carthage.
Read moreThe single most consequential page of nineteenth-century American accounting: a six-line entry that nobody has ever been able to explain away.
Read moreThe 38-page sworn testimony of the Carthage city marshal, taken six days after the events of June 27, 1844 — and quietly sealed until 1978.
Read moreA previously untranslated Catawba ledger entry, dated 1843, describing an object that fell into the Mississippi near Keokuk and the men who retrieved it.
Read moreField measurements from a 1971 U.S. Geological Survey expedition, suppressed for forty years, showing sustained anomalous radiation across three Salt Lake Valley sites.
Read moreA 1986 chemistry thesis, completed by a Brigham Young University graduate student and never publicly defended, on the unusual isotopic composition of seer-stone fragments.
Read moreA 2014 forensic chemistry memo claiming the iron-gall ink on Ledger page 47 matches a batch mixed after 1845 — two years after the page claims to have been written.
Read moreA 1963 construction core sample from the temple foundation, later found to contain a thin layer of sintered silica glass consistent with a localized high-temperature event.
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