MoundLore
@MoundLore • 79,136 subscribers
I write things. America’s often forgotten past. Fact-driven. Lore-obsessed. Mounds, myths, maps. I understand people.
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In the California mountains, a train disappears….then reappears above itself. A century and a half old, still working every day. They call it the Tehachapi Loop. Built in 1876, carved into granite by 3,000 Chinese laborers using black powder and shovels.
MoundLore2,578,988 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
There’s a 900-foot stone wall on a Georgia mountaintop, and somehow the wall is the least strange part. For two centuries people kept reaching for anything but the obvious. Welsh explorers. “Moon-eyed” builders. Lost races. The wall never changed. Only the explanations. 🧵
MoundLore257,966 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
I was watching this 1950s footage and caught myself thinking, “Life really moved different back then.” Not cleaner. Not better. Just steadier. People walked like the ground wasn’t going to shift under them tomorrow. Days had a rhythm you could lean on. You can see it in the small stuff… the way they talk to each other, the way an afternoon just exists without rushing. And it made me pause a bit. When did we lose that? When did everyday life start feeling like a deadline you’re already behind on? I’m not romanticizing the 50s. They had their problems. But the pace in this video… it hits you. It makes you notice how fast we slid into a world built on noise, speed, and constant uncertainty. If you watch it, tell me what comes up for you. I’m curious what thoughts, memories or revelations this stirs with people.
MoundLore146,721 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
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