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Researcher Documents Simultaneous Catastrophic Fires Across Hundreds of Miles in 1871

Julian Dorey Daily · #430 - “NEW Evidence!” - Randall Carlson on Ancient History’s Most LOST Civilization & Catastrophes · June 2, 2026
Researcher Documents Simultaneous Catastrophic Fires Across Hundreds of Miles in 1871
Julian Dorey Daily
Julian Dorey Daily
#430 - “NEW Evidence!” - Randall Carlson on Ancient History’s Most LOST Civilization & Catastrophes
"The Great Chicago Fire came on very rapidly, very suddenly, about 9 o'clock Sunday evening, October 8th, 1871. The Peshtigo fire that happened about 200 miles north of Chicago came on suddenly, almost as a hurricane of fire at the same time. 200 miles apart. At the same time. Across Lake Michigan, equally terrible fires broke out on Lake Michigan's east coast. The simultaneously bursting forth of these conflagrations is either just coincidence or it's not a coincidence. And I don't think it was a coincidence."
Carlson revealed eyewitness accounts documenting that the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, and fires in Manistee Michigan all ignited simultaneously at approximately 9 PM on October 8, 1871, despite being separated by hundreds of miles. He argues this pattern, which he's documented across multiple fire events in the 1800s, suggests a cosmic trigger rather than coincidence, possibly related to the Taurid meteor stream.

About this episode

In this wide-ranging 4-hour conversation, host Julian Dorey sits down with master builder and geological researcher Randall Carlson to explore lost civilizations, cosmic catastrophes, and humanity's forgotten history. Carlson, who has spent decades studying ancient myths through the lens of geological evidence, presented his most compelling case yet that the Azores Plateau in the mid-Atlantic is the true location of Atlantis, citing deep drilling data showing a half-mile subsidence of continental crust that correlates precisely with Plato's 11,600-year timeline and Meltwater Pulse 1B. The conversation expanded into Carlson's documentation of simultaneous catastrophic fires across the American Midwest in 1871, which he argues were triggered by cosmic events rather than coincidence, supported by eyewitness accounts of purple mists and fire descending from the sky. Carlson proposed that ancient civilizations possessed plasma-based technology utilizing sacred geometry and frequency, explaining how massive earthworks across North America and megalithic structures worldwide were constructed. Using Greenland ice core data, he challenged mainstream climate science narratives by demonstrating that temperature swings equivalent to modern warming have occurred repeatedly throughout the Holocene. The discussion touched on how the 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve and the 17th Amendment subverted the original constitutional framework, before circling back to cosmic threats—particularly the Taurid meteor stream that Earth crosses twice annually on June 30th and October 31st, dates Carlson connects to ancient Halloween traditions and the Tunguska event. Carlson emphasized that humanity's survival depends on recovering ancient knowledge encoded in myths and becoming 'cosmic beings' aware of our place in the cosmic ecosystem, arguing that spiritual and psychological evolution must match our technological capabilities to prevent catastrophe.

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