TL;DR: Linda Moulton Howe is related to one of the actors in the Salem Witch Trials psyop (17-page PDF). That doesn’t bear directly on her work, but… you know. We’ll see a lot more about these Ufologists soon. Warning: heavy on genealogies here, light on cattle mutilations. Stay tuned for the bonus because this story goes to January 3, 2027. You’ll see what I mean.
This will be a long post because we’re setting dynamite to the foundations of the nearly half-century long career of one of the most prominent Ufologists ever, so I feel we need to be as rigorous as possible. Although the connection may strike as a historical curiosity, I want to make sure everyone is looking at it through the correct end of the telescope. You see, I’m always trying to dig down to bedrock so we can begin to rebuild history from a firm foundation. Every time I try to do that, the mine floor collapses and I drop down another level.
In this instance, I had noticed a couple of associations between the modern UFO phenomenon and the Salem Witch Trials. When I went to flesh out this zany idea before writing it up, the floor collapsed into a ton of associations. When I zoomed in to write a post just about Ufologists and the SWTs, as an afterthought I went to see if I might include LMH. Then that floor also collapsed into an even deeper pit. Here we are with Linda and a long road that leads to the United States House of Representatives.
But how about those cattle mutilations? I couldn’t tell you what’s going on, but assuming it’s not all outright lies, I’ve long suspected that a relatively simple but not publicly known technology or technique was at work, as is characteristic of much stage magic.
Think of a Bic lighter and Amazonian tribesmen. If you wished to amaze and enthrall them with it, would you hand it over and carefully explain its principles of operation? Of course not. You would set mystifying fires and make impossible lights appear. Meanwhile, a person you trusted implicitly because she was secretly your daughter, and whom these tribesmen would come to trust as an explorer into the mysteries, would carefully and at length explain to these primitives why the gods were angry. See how LMH being one of “Them” parallels this example?
Let’s dive in: Can we connect Linda to the Salem Witch Trials? In a previous post about fake atom bomber Gen. Leslie Groves, I promised that we would fill out Linda’s genealogical connection to the Robert Moulton that testified at Salem. That’s what we’ll do here, as best we can.
Given the sort of “esoteric” field she’s in and that she’s a journalist, surely she would mention such a novelty in the bio posted on her own site, right? Nope, just little ol’ beauty queen Linda Ann out of Boise who gets a master’s from Stanford and gets juiced into all kinds of things. Feel good story of the year. Nothing to see here!
Lacking that, the connection is an easy layup for us, isn’t it? Let’s see… ah, yes, if you consult the list of people of the Salem witch trials we find an Elizabeth Howe right there. Could not be simpler! Except Linda was born a Moulton and not a Howe. That’s her husband’s name. Let me just look him up real quick and….
Linda Moulton Howe’s husband does not seem to exist. Neither her wiki, her bio, nor any genealogical site mentions him. What a ghost! I scraped up one source that claimed his name is Larry Howe. Isn’t he supposed to be the boring one? Maybe not, huh? We’ll see that single source a bit later, and it may provide a vital clue.
Never fear, though, let’s just follow up the that Moulton connection. If you look at the Salem list, it’s got a ton of names and most of those names are hot-linked to other full-on wiki pages about the participants. You know how history nerds love this stuff. Oh, and lately the SJWs cannot stop talking about the SWTs because of all the patriarchy and oppression of strong women and persecution of the otherized and all that. Let’s see, quick search on “Moulton”… not there. Welp, final answer, right? Except a Moulton most assuredly was there:
the testimony of Robart Moulton sener who testifith and saith that I waching with Susannah sheldon sence she was afflicted I heard her say that the witches halled her Upone her bely through the yeard like a snacke and halled her over the stone walle & presontly I heard her Controdict her former: disCource and said that she Came over the stone wall her selfe and I heard her say that she Rid Upone apoole to boston and she said the divel Caryed the poole
Haha, blew up my spell-check! Get it, “spell” check? To be serious, you can find the original right here:
A mere oversight with mere centuries to correct? You decide, but it’s not like these Moultons were anonymous randos. The biggest island in Salem Harbor along with a smaller one nearby are together called the Misery Islands, but were formerly known as "Moulton's Misery".
Before we go further, if you plan on doing any research on this you’ll have to know that there are four Robert Moultons to keep straight (just the way it is), and you’ll see various seniors and juniors and numbers and nothings scattered among them. Here’s the rundown: “Robert I” (1587-1655) immigrated to America with his adult son “Robert II” (1616-1665) during the Puritan Great Migration of the 1630’s. (I’m thinking it should be called “The Crypto-Satanist Great Infiltration”.) The trial witness we just saw we’ll refer to as “Robert III” (1644-1731). His son was “Robert IV” (1675-1756), and he was the one that married Hannah Groves, ancestor of Leslie Groves, as mentioned in the previous post linked at the top.
Is Linda related to these Moultons? I can come excruciatingly close to proving that. Wiki casually mentions that her father was named Chet, and I was able to track him down: Chester Stephen "Chet" Moulton. His age is right, he’s the “Father of Private”, and he passed away in Idaho, Linda’s home state. I’d say we got him. Tracing back up his line, I can only take you as far as Lt. David Moulton (1702-1767).
The genealogy mostly vanishes there, but also gets jacked up. Wikitree lists seemingly the same person as Daniel Moulton (1735-1767). Same parents, same children as Lt. David. This “Daniel” was born in Ipswich, but Geni tells us “David” was born in “Probably Mansfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony”.
This is as achingly close as I can come to making the final connection: If you study the dates and places of the births of the fourteen (!) children of Robert IV and Hannah, it looks like between 1714 and 1716 they moved from Salem to Windham CT. Mansfield and Windham are literally adjacent to one another.
What is being hidden about Lt. David/Daniel? How many unrelated Moultons could be floating around this small area at the turn of the 18th Century? Well, time for me to give you that shocking final clue I teased earlier. I got Linda’s husband’s name from this page: Linda Moulton Howe: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About Journalist. No dates or links or sources. Pretty weak, granted, but it does say the following and it’s not the type of thing you make up out of nothing:
Her two-decade marriage to Larry Howe resulted in a daughter named Laura who has a daughter herself named Hannah.
Whoa, did not see that coming, did you? Of all the names, huh? In fact, Hannah Groves, wife of Robert IV, herself had a daughter born Hannah Moulton. She married a Fuller. You may consult the list to find a “Mary Fuller Jr., age 17 and living in Ipswich” with an acting job at the Salem Witch Trials. Tangled web, huh?
Bonus under the category of “They Live”, right out in the open yet no one sees it for what it is: These Spook Families settled in and operated out of Essex County, Their other hellpit being Nantucket. Most of Essex is included in Massachusetts's 6th congressional district. Guess who has represented that district in Congress for a decade? Seth Wilbur Moulton. I forgot to mention this also falls under the category of, “You cannot make this shit up.”
Literally born in Salem. Won his seat at the age of 36 in his first election ever. Campaigned for President during the summer of 2019 before dropping out. In fact, he was just reelected to the 119th United States Congress and will be in office throughout 2026. Did I mention Linda as being juiced in? Does anyone actually need to do Seth’s genealogy at this point? Haha, good luck! It doesn’t exist..
Even though a lot of what I cover is centuries old, I always try to get the message across that all this is not far away, not at all. It’s right there plain to see when you have the special sunglasses on. And people are worried Trump is secretly a Jew.
Thanks for reading this long one!
Quite interesting connections I've never heard before or thought about. Worth pondering.
Glad to hear it sparked some thought! Stick with it because, as I always try to stress, these things aren't quirky historical coincidences, but tiny pieces of a much larger puzzle.
I'm paying as close attention as my mental space can manage; I've been in it a decent long time now and I am burnt low!
Haha! You know, sometimes I think it's more about the evolution in basic mental outlook. I mean, the details you can always bookmark or copy-paste to another doc and refer to later. But, if you're anything like me, your worldview has to shift to, "Jesus H., however weird I thought it was before, it's way weirder, and in a way no one is talking about it."
Can you imagine trying to bring this material up in a conversation with someone you just met, as something novel and interesting you'd heard? If you were sensible, you'd at least say to yourself, "Welp, I need to start reeeeeeeal slow."... lol