Never knew this!! I love how no matter how old you get, there's always something new to learn! Thank you!

@user-xj2ly7oj9x

24 күн бұрын

History has always been the greatest teacher.

@surfdocer103

23 күн бұрын

Recently retired. I have time for this now.

Hi im from Michigan and Beaver Island is not very well known. I found this episode very intriguing And I'm grateful that you chose to run it. I can see where this part of History would Have have been under the rugs. It doesn't look good for Michigan, Beaver Island or the Mormons. keep up your great work! Thank you

Kingdom of Strange sounds about right!

Learn something new everyday. Love the new format.

What a country! A president in Washington D.C., a King in Michigan, and an Emperor in San Francisco!

Those Mormons never fail to entertain.

@marksavage4898

24 күн бұрын

those were definitely not mormons

@Einwetok

24 күн бұрын

@@marksavage4898 Didn't see any mormon army forcibly break up or even challenge his BS, or that of any other mormons doing f'd up stuff to neighbors over the while period their cult has been around.

@krisofamerica

23 күн бұрын

Mormons are often pretty amazing.

@surfdocer103

23 күн бұрын

@@theshiv5288 careful… if you call them Mormons now they get offended. They prefer latter-day Saints.

I love this format. Don't stop showing us houses, but Strang(e) history is good too.

I never heard of Strange until today. Thanks for telling the story.

May I say you have an excellent understanding of these stories and have a very nice tone and voice that fits these stories to a "T"! Love history, appreciate you bringing it to life!❤

I absolutely enjoy these fascinating stories. Even without many photos of the house, I can always count on learning about an interesting character. Thank you, Ken.

Great story and yes Ken, this is great to see on occasion! TY

I enjoyed.

Wow!! This was insane. Thanks for retelling the story 😀

i've been a member for 50 years have never heard this story. weird but interesting.

@andreaberryhill6654

Ай бұрын

I've heard of the man & his letter, but never the rest of the story. 😊

History is the value that is the focal point of understanding Historical Architecture. It is the story of the various Homes and Buildings, it is the reason we are so interested and my personal Passion ) (6 months of Education ... and an Enormous Ego Mind)

I love this format. Please keep mixing it up with history along with your house content. Love them both!

Love this format! Thank you for the odd, fascinating history.

Yes, please tell more stories. I look forward to your videos and Community posts every day. Thank you 😊 🙏

Love this format! More please!

A Strang story about a Strang man.

Fascinating & totally new-to-me story! Thank you for sharing it here!

Thanks Ken, always something to add to my memory as it gets worse......LOL

Still crazy after all these years!

Great format

I’m from Charlevoix! This is such a wild story!

Excellent video. Interesting dive into a little known bit of weird American history.😊

I loved it. But I love history and that is what old houses are about, history.

Thanks for this unusual story.

Love it! Thank you!

Love this! Keep up the good work❤❤

Why have I never heard of this before? This is crazy!

Really interesting~thank you ‼️👍🏻

Thank you very much❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I hope you do more history centric videos like this. Very interesting!!

New interesting information! Enjoyed this unusual story !

Apropos for our current times. 💙

Love love! Your storytelling is so enjoyable. Please continue with content of this type!

Thank you for sharing!

I like it. Thank you for posting it :)

As a citizen of Michigan, I have known about James Strang since I was in high school in the 1970s

Loved it !!

The difference between piracy/mobsterism, and statist taxes and warfare, is cosmetic.

Thank you for a fascinating footnote to of an exotic branch of US history!

Thank you for telling this story. P.S. Be very careful in angering the US Navy, you never know when you will need them.

Great video, I live in Michigan not far from beaver island, but had forgotten about this interesting history.

I really enjoyed this video Very educational

Thank you.

I really like this. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I have heard of the Strangites but I knew nothing about them. Thanks for doing this research and sharing this video.

We had a nice day exploring Beaver Island and knew about the history. People sure can ruin a beautiful place, but nature recovers eventually.

This is a great story!! I love history. This is actually more relaxing for me because I didn’t watch it, I listened to it :-)

As a Michigan native, of Irish ancestry, raised in the Mormon church, I am painfully familiar with this story. THIS is why we should never allow religion and government to mix.

thank you!

Crazy!!

30 to 40 years ago my Dad and buddies went there hunting 2:15 and lodged for a week. The natives that owned the cabin and cooked for them were descendants of the Mormons. My Dad said they were civil but not overly friendly.

What sounds like a crazy, implausible story sounds all too familiar these days. There always have been, and always will be, people willing to follow a charismatic character. This was fascinating.

6 years of being a complete badass.

Very interesting…. Please share more.

Very good sir very good.

I like it make more

That's very fascinating. Who knew?!

Yes! Interested I more vids like this….

I really enjoyed this video. Feel free to tell more interesting stories.

Very interesting 🤔

Some of Mom's family were Strangite Mormons. A vry odd group.

That was interesting but you should have talked more about his house.

🤘

This was interesting

How about North Island in Saginaw Bay. It once was home to a huge fishing industry

Good grief! Never heard about this before.

Are they bunnies on your shirt? It looks like one I bought at Charles Tyrwhitt..

@ThisHouse

Ай бұрын

That’s my pirate shirt! It has skulls and cross bones on it.

@cmecre8629

Ай бұрын

bunnies, funny

@BlaineShire

Ай бұрын

@@ThisHouse ok mine has bunnies on it.

As a member of the LDS faith I appreciate your telling of this story. It is amazing that some, such as Strang, rise to such notoriety simply because they seek power. Thank you for this and the story of the Brigham Young house without condemning our religion.

Kool history about lds

Hey, Joseph Smith based an entire religion off golden plates given to him by an angel. That he wasn’t allowed to show anyone.

@garryferrington811

Ай бұрын

DIY religion. He was a Millerite, originally.

@mrp4242

27 күн бұрын

Not accurate. There were several men who claimed to see those plates, and even a few women. The ‘Testimony of the Eight Witnesses’ for example, lstates that 8 men were shown the plates by Joseph Smith. Although some of the witnesses had a falling out with Joseph and/or church, none redacted their statement. Of course, you are welcome to believe the statement to be wrong or fraudulent or whatever, but it’s inaccurate to say ‘he wasn’t allowed to show anyone’.

It was interesting to learn. Perhaps give any of these that have an interesting story but not enough house pictures, a category name. Anyone want to workshop a name?

It's Mormon, if he kept the original spelling.

KEN, REMEMBER I AM ORIGINALLY FROM MICHIGAN, AND I SPENT MUCH TIME IN THE 1980S AND INTO THE 1990S IN TRAVERSE CITY, WHICH, IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT, IS VERY CLOSE TO WHERE ALL OF THIS OCCURRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALTHOUGH I HAVE CERTAINLY HEARD OF BEAVER ISLAND, I HAVE NEVER UNTIL NOW HEARD OF ANY OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS TOO BAD THAT THE NOW DEFUNCT NORTHERN MICHIGAN ASYLUM, LATER KNOWN AS TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL, AN INSTITUTION WITH WHICH I AM EXTREMELY FAMILIAR, DID NOT OPEN UNTIL 1885!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BECAUSE THIS OBVIOUS LUNATIC SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST ONE ADMITTED THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEN, HOUSE OR NO HOUSE, LONG LIVE THIS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@lynnschaeferle-zh4go

26 күн бұрын

The TC asylum is now a commercial conversion, so the building lives. Downstate we used to make jokes when someone was crazy. Lots of my friends fish on Beaver Island and they haven’t heard this, cool. This guy is a laugh. And like most middle aged goats they decide they want more sex from younger women. To heck with the old wife; keep her around to do the dishes. Besides if she objects he keeps the kids (law) and she has no where to go. Then he gets into the government and gets to make more misogynistic laws. Yeah, I know Mormons aren’t Christian because they are so randy they can’t abide by monogamy. Smith didn’t need to make up a whole new religion, if he had traveled farther he could have found Islam.

Are there beavers on Beaver Island? 🤔 😊

@garryferrington811

Ай бұрын

They were exterminated.

@LearnRunes

27 күн бұрын

Not anymore.

God: what did I say was going to happen when your people start shouting “we want a king, we want a king”?

Not about houses? 😮

I'll never understand people so weak minded that they get caught up in a cult. And yet, one weird and charismatic guy can can con people by the thousands. People are suckers when someone tells them what they want to hear. We need to be smarter! 😂

This was certainly different! I'm from Michigan and never heard this. Of course, they told us Paul Bunyan was based on folktales, when in fact he was an advertisement for wood products, so Michigan wasn't much for actual history, even as fascinating as this.

Rrrrrrr! Tis burger king 🏳🏳🏳

Not an oxymoron! 👍

🦫🏝️🏴‍☠️

Must be an ancestor of Drumfass

Secret plates suck.

You lost me the moment you showed that sailing ship that's obviously not from the 1800's.

Incredible story! He sounds like a power hungry charlatan! Amazing how a religion can still exist today, based on made up ideology from someone else!

@garryferrington811

Ай бұрын

Um...