found this on an old FE board before it 404'd — the Bedford River bet that nobody on our side talks about

Saving this cause the board it was on is basically dead, last post was like 2009. OP over there was actually one of US, a believer, and he was raging about the Bedford Level thing. So back in 1870 a guy named John Hampden put up money — said he could prove the Old Bedford River out near Welney in Ca……