the flat earth PREACHER who ran a whole town and put it on the radio — Zion, Illinois

This one barely gets mentioned and it's nuts. Before youtube, before everything, there was an actual flat-earth THEOCRACY in Illinois. Wilbur Glenn Voliva took over the town of Zion, IL in the early 1900s. ~6,000 followers. Church schools taught flat earth as fact to kids. Dude controlled who peopl……