Eric Meyers
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2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well away from here, and not in any known burial ground.
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Perhaps that's why it lay untouched for so long.
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Timms met with local Tonsberg historian, Tor Oydween.
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He studied the story of the burial's discovery and the archaeological dig which followed.
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It's a strange tale, with its own blend of myth, folklore, and superstition.
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The mound itself isn't exactly hidden, but nor is it in a prominent position in the broad shallow valley.
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It's low down, tucked away by a small winding creek.
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Such places were suspected to contain ancient burials, but later generations were wary of digging into them, lest dire consequences should befall them.
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Fear of the medieval pestilence meant that the mound remained undisturbed until almost the end of the nineteenth century.
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is known about Hansen.
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He moved to Tonsberg to farm the rich land here.
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Yet like his forebears in the Viking Age, he was, it seems, no stranger to the
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Hansen was a pilot, guiding the great sailing boats on the Hudson River, and like many sailors of all eras, he was superstitious.
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Like many others, he was visiting a fortune teller there.
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The fortune teller asked Hansen, why on earth he'd come to New York?
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When the fortune he sought was back home on his farm in Norway, in the mysterious mound, the supposed plague burial.
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Whether or not it had to do with the foul effulent from the mound
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Hansen soon after became sick and died.
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The stage was then set for the next important character in the story.
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Around the year 1900.
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