Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

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8. I stood outside a mile or so away and watched that tornado

at the age of 12. It and the seven others that touched down around us that evening were pretty amazing.

I was always told that Chief Burnett was buried there but that is not correct. The ground around it was not to be disturbed, it protected the people from tornados by using spirits of those who had passed. It was respected for years until the great fathers of Topeka decided to run the Interstate right along the sacred base. Then dig out part of it for a big old water tank then start building houses and apartments all around it. Not that I particularly believe in spirits protecting us from tornados but one would have thought that a stupid city could have respected it better than that!

The tornado started just to the Southwest of the city and went to the mound and covered it, picked up a radio guy who still lives after being carried by the storm and dropped. There are videos of it just swallowing the mound. It continued and lifted almost immediately as it left the Northeast city limits. Hmmmmm, I think we should have moved all that construction away from the mound. Most close or on it were distroyed.

It took years and years to recover from it.