Myths & mysteries
Victorian Americans saw singing airships before airplanes
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Decades before the Wright Brothers ever got off the ground, thousands of Americans stared at the sky and reported seeing massive, motorized blimps piloted by secretive inventors. This 1897 wave of sightings sparked a bizarre, millenarian cult-like frenzy where people claimed they heard choirs singing from the crafts, turning early steampunk fantasy into a full-blown religious omen.
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