Note: This post was recovered from the Sh.org archive.Username: OmahaDate: 2019-02-27 04:25:06Reaction Score: 6
Came across this last night. I live in Omaha, have most of my life. I am very aware of Omaha's sordid history, and I also am aware of the fact that high level Freemasons as well as Satanists consider the area a sacred spot.
I dont have a lot of time right now, bit when I do I will definitely revisit this post as well as the thread regarding the world exposition held here at the turn of the century and try and give you guys some local perspective.
For now, I just want to say that the hill in question was always there. The hills you see off in the distance in the old picture are in the area of the church.
The Missouri river was not channelized and somewhat controlled until the 1950s. The river itself shifted quite often across the flood plain before that. The channel was further East in the early days of Omaha, and what you see in the old images is the beginnings of a town built on a flat flood plain. Downtown Omaha now begins at 10th street due to the current and somewhat permanent condition of the river.
The church was always on a hill, and Omaha is very hilly from that hill all the way to the Elkhorn river at about 210th street.
If you drive along the river valley between Nebraska and Iowa, you will see a wide flood plain with steep bluffs on either side. The ones on the Iowa side are more pronounced. I was told as a kid they were created by glaciers extending down the river valley. They are now officially called the loess hills and the official explanation has something to do with dust or volcanic ash from China settling here and creating the hills. My eyes and common sense tell me the glaciers are a more logical explanation.......
Someone on one of these posts mentioned tunnels and a specific building in the old market being built lower. I used to work in that building, it was built in the 1800s as a fruit warehouse, and the bottom was built below ground as a cellar.
The tunnels had to do with bootlegging and organized crime.
2 quick side notes....the freemasons who built early omaha almost gleefully built it on top of an extensive indian burial site. Lewis and Clark noted the large amount of mounds when they stopped here. Accounts of early Omaha construction mention finding lots of indian bones and artifacts, but building on top of them nonetheless.
I have a lot to say about Omaha and will be back when I can. Going to go drive by this church tonight. Seen it a million times but never really looked at it. For what its worth, there are lots of little gargoyles and occult symbols subtly worked in to some of the remaining old buildings down town.
Interesting side note, just north of town in a wooded area which was near the site of the first European settlement here a famous archaeologist excavated a bunch of prehistoric burial sites back in the 1930s. Apparently some of the bodies had elongated skulls. The newspaper at the time matter of factly stated with no question the archaeologists assertion that these particular people came from a race which lived out in the Atlantic Ocean...........