TL;DR: The Salem Witches launched a grand project 175 years ago to create the automotive industry in America.

When I first started out with this kind of research, I thought perhaps to create work like that of Miles Mathis. By that I do not mean disinformation, I mean quick hits with surprising revelations like, “Stephen Hawking was replaced!” or, “The OJ trial was faked!”. Basically attention-grabbing headlines, with enough of an article to support them. It has not turned out that way.

It became more a laborious academic project, rewriting history but including an entire substrate or context that had previously been missing. Less glamorous and more arduous, but that’s okay. Now I feel it has expanded once again. It feels more like carefully constructing the glasses from They Live.

I’ve mentioned that analogy previously. Conspiracy theorists love that reference. Frankly I think it’s not because it aids in clear communication to those who do not understand, but to engender a sense of superiority, to tell themselves that they can see what other cannot.

Those glasses were fictional and metaphorical, and the reference is cost-free. Creating a body of research that forms the analog to those glasses in the real world is quite laborious and time-consuming. That’s okay too, really, because no one forces you to pursue things which have become your obsessions.

Still, I worry that people will discard the real They Live glasses because they are cumbersome to put on. I suppose I can’t change that. My point is that if such study becomes burdensome, there’s nothing I can do about it, but for those who persevere, you will never see the world the same way again.

In this instance, I originally wanted to do a quick hit on Henry Ford (1863-1947). He had been mentioned in two episodes of the NBC TV series Timeless (2016-2018), about which I have written so much lately. Miles Mathis had also written a paper titled, Henry Ford (4/17/2019 14-page PDF), and I wanted to stomp him into the ground yet one more time.

So I started researching and… it all blew up in my face. The subject just kept getting wider and deeper. I think this is about the fourth time I’m writing a post on the subject because on each previous attempt, I judged that I needed to stop and reorganize it all based on new discoveries. The last thing I discovered before sitting down to this writing was a 17th Century German witch lawyer. You see how unbounded that is, and maybe we’ll get to that guy together one of these days.

What brought all this up—particularly the They Live glasses reference—is a coincidence I noticed that made me wonder if anyone else in the whole wide world did. This research does not just change the way you read history, you see, it changes the way you read today’s headlines.

At the time of this writing, there is a certain contretemps underway primarily between the United States and Iran. The US sent two carrier strike groups to the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, one led by the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and the other led by the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Did you catch the coincidence?

Both Ford and Lincoln are also popular American car brands, and both still in production. Household names, in other words. I don’t know every American car brand ever made, but if you consult the “List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy”, I don’t think any other of the numerous carriers in history have had the names of car brands. Actually it’s just one company, since the Lincoln Motor Company was acquired to be the luxury brand of the Ford Motor Company in 1922, a century ago. I mean, that’s kind of weird coincidence, isn’t it?

Now let me be clear: I do think it is a coincidence. I don’t think anyone—Salem Witch or other—planned it out that way. More precise to say I’m not counting on it meaning anything. In fact, it gets to be much less of a coincidence at the same time it gets more disturbing when you see how the Salem Witches were interwoven through all if this.

We won’t finish in one post, but by the time we get done with the full explication, I don’t think you’ll find the coincidence surprising at all. Not even terribly shocking, either, but still troublesome that no one else even sees it.

Administrative note: As the authoritative reference of participants in the Salem Witch Trials, I’m switching to the University of Virginia | Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project – Tags from Wikipedia’s List of people of the Salem witch trials. It links primary reference material and is much more complete. You would think that after 334 years, researchers and other interested parties could get their acts together on this. But no, they prefer to lecture us all on the oppression of women and superstitious religious zealots.

Are there Fords on that expanded list? No, there are not. In a previous post about S1E11 of the show concerning the World’s Columbian Exhibition and H.H. Holmes, I stated that Henry Ford was not a Salem Witch. Incorrect. Turns out that—surprising to both you and me—I am not nearly paranoid enough.

If you look at the genealogy of Henry Ford, there is nothing notable that I can see in what little is available. You’ll see that his father, William Ford (abt. 1826 - 1905), was an Irish farmer whose family—presumably seeking greener fields—immigrated in 1847 first to Canada then to Wayne County, Michigan. Turns out the year 1847 is our first clue.

I’ll now make a big claim that—at the end of all this—I think you won’t find very big at all. In fact, I think eventually you would find it surprising if Bill was just some farmer who just happened to be named Ford. I claim that Mr. & Mrs. Ford along with young Bill were sent forth by the Irish equivalents of the Salem Witches specifically for this automotive project. I get that’s wild, yes, but hang in there.

First, recall that what would be the future United Kingdom was the wellspring of the Salem Witches to begin with. Most came in 1634-35, but some came before, some came after, and Lord knows how many stayed behind. Why not just use a Ford who was already in America? I could not possibly say, but you can decide on all such things after the presentation of facts.

Transitioning away from sexy nuclear aircraft carriers, let me introduce you to a couple of farm equipment companies you’ve never heard of, Nichols and Shepard and the Oliver Farm Equipment Company:

In 1848, John Nichols opened a blacksmith shop in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he began making various farm tools for local farmers…. Nichols and Shepard Co. was an American partnership company which manufactured farm machinery, steam engines and mill machinery…. The company also obtained a number of other patents… for original improvements in steam engine traction technology…. In 1929 the Nichols and Shepard Company was acquired by the Oliver Farm Equipment Company.

If you now refer to that new list, you will note five Nichols, five Shepherds, and one Goodman Oliver on it. The spelling of one name is different, but the spelling of everything was quite fluid in the early days.

Did you remember that first clue of 1847? The very next year was when Nichols opened up shop. Funny, right? Do you know that very cool conspiracy theory that “They” are 50/100/300 years ahead In technology and dispense it to the masses as convenient? Now you see the evidence but it’s somehow less cool than you thought it would be. Maybe all happenstance anyway? Read in Henry’s “Early life” section:

Ford said two significant events occurred in 1875 when he was 12: he received the watch, and he witnessed the operation of a Nichols and Shepard road engine, "...the first automobile other than horse-drawn that I had ever seen".

Almost like, well, he was steered into it, yes? Does it seem far-fetched that Little Henry was guided into becoming The Henry Ford? Sure, but keep in mind that young Henry may have been only one of a couple of dozen young warlocks who were influenced this way and that. Like Plinko chips, while you may not know where exactly they will end up, they will all almost certainly fall to the bottom of the Plinko pegboard. In fact, we will see a dozen just in the auto industry before we’re done.

Another clue is Battle Creek, Michigan. If the name rings a bell, that’s because it is “Cereal City”, home of Kellogg’s and Post. Yes, they’re both Salem Witch names, but that’s another post (haha). The point here is that Battle Creek lies halfway between Detroit—future home of the automotive industry—and Chicago—future location of the Chicago World’s Fair.

That event is more formally known as the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and is a capstone for this post. In fact, in Timeless S1E11 "The World's Columbian Exposition" (original release date 1/16/2017), Henry Ford, along with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan, are said to be attending a meeting of Rittenhouse to be held there. The hero/anti-hero Flynn is planning on whacking them all but his plot fails. They never appear in the episode.

A mainstream article gives us all we need on what went down in 1893:

If not for the Chicago World’s Fair 125 years ago, the U.S. may not have become an autobuilding powerhouse (Hemmings 8/27/2024)

Aside from the locomotives, there were bicycles, powered watercraft, and gasoline-engine agricultural pumps. Henry Ford saw such a pump there, specifically a two-cylinder that powered a fire-fighting pump mounted to a two-wheeled horsecart. Though Tesla’s alternating-current design for the fair’s lighting system had beaten out the direct-current design that Ford’s boss at the time, Thomas Edison, came up with, Ford still took in the fair along with 27 million other Americans and decided he could build a similar gasoline engine with which he could then power a horseless carriage. While most sources don’t mention whether Ford happened upon Daimler’s car at the Exposition, it appears he did indeed stop to inspect it.

Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) will be mentioned a lot, and you can mark him down as a provisional “Deutsche Hexe”. I’ll have a bit more to say in a bonus.

Ford wasn’t the only one to take such inspiration back home with him, either. Charles Brady King, while exhibiting his pneumatic hammer at the Exposition, spotted a single-cylinder engine powering a boat around the Exposition — in addition to the Daimler horseless carriage — and decided to take a more direct route to powering his own horseless carriage by buying one of the same engines that powered the boat. He took a few test drives in 1895 before debuting his motocycle (his term) in March 1896 on the streets of Detroit. While King would hardly go on to see the same type of success in the automobile field as Ford, he did assist his fellow Detroiter in the construction of the Quadricycle (which debuted that June), serve as mentor to Ransom Olds, and generally instigate for the adoption of the automobile as a primary means of transportation.

King is a Salem Witch name but perhaps fairly common. and Olds is not a Salem Witch name. Maybe not hits, huh? I will revisit and fully document the following in future posts: President Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006) (of aircraft carrier fame) was not born a Ford, but as Leslie Lynch King Jr. Did you see that coming? The mother of Ransom E. Olds (1864-1950) was Sarah Whipple, his great-grandmother was Elizabeth Persis Rice, and his grandmother was—get this—Matilda Ford. C’mon.

Elwood Haynes also took in the Exposition and, though he had drawn up plans for a horseless carriage as early as 1891, seeing a gasoline engine in operation in Chicago led him to choose that as the powerplant for his horseless carriage, which he first drove in July of 1894.

I refer you to the fake witch trial shenanigans of one Thomas Haynes.

It’s also worth mentioning the Duryea brothers who also visited Chicago that summer and examined the Daimler automobile….

The mother of the Duryea Brothers was Louisa Melvina Turner. See John Turner.

You really owe it to yourself to go read some of those original trial documents, because it’s hard to believe that anyone ever believed them. You’re missing that “Goody Pudeater att the same Tyme appeared & Tould this Examinant that She had throwne Jno Turner off of a chery Tree & almost Killed him”. Thankfully, John made it and had descendants that hit it big in the car game.

Bonus #1: No time to get into it, but you should note how this all dovetails into the popular “General Motors streetcar conspiracy”. The Motts were running GM, Standard Oil was run by the Rockefellers, and the Rockefellers were a Salem Witch front.

Bonus #2: You saw Daimler come up very key in this. He deserves more attention but there’s a much longer story for which there isn’t nearly space. I’ll be brief but shocking: You know the Strongholds we’ve talked about? There seems to have been one in the area of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Daimler lived and worked in Stuttgart, less than a hundred miles away. A bunch of other notables came out of the Frankfurt area: the Astors (think Titanic), the Strauses (also think Titanic), the Hessians, the Rothschilds, and that 17th Century witch lawyer I mentioned. Believe that’s mere coincidence? Not me, not at all.

Thank you for your attention to this matter! Much, much more to come.