Home Giant skeletons and buried copper plates—a strange Marion County folktale Solomon Spaulding writes Manuscript Found

Solomon Spaulding writes Manuscript Found

Solomon Spaulding claimed to have uncovered ancient plates along Prickett's Creek in Marion County, West Virginia.

Lough said he believed Spaulding plotted and began writing ‘Manuscript Found’ while visiting in present Marion County.

Solomon Spaulding uncovers ancient plates

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