TL;DR: Orphan Trains, Mass Displacement, and the MFEE Thesis: The strongest, most resistant populations may have been driven across the Bering Strait into Siberia. Fomenko notes that Siberia became an exile destination after Pugachev (1774). Timing: before 1774, Romanovs could not exile to Siberia (it was Moscow Tartary); after 1774, Siberia is "wreckage" — depopulated, available as penal colony. Investigation hypothesis: The orphan phenomenon—mass orphaning, institutional response, population resets—predates the orphan trains. It was active from the MFEE period onward. The trains (1854+) were not the origin but the evolution of the phenomenon: a more organized form of what was already happening. Cities like New York and London experienced recurring resets with orphans as a control mechanism. War displacement and deliberate capture/re-education of indigenous children amplified the pattern. The Khmer Rouge's use of children as both victims and agents of genocide echoes an older template: the transformation of Earth toward a "communist utopia" mirrored after civilization on Mars.
Date: 2026-03-05
Sources: See ~/dev/wget/orphan-trains/
Claim: The first U.S. orphanage was established in 1729 after Indians massacred settlers near Natchez.
Status: Validated (with nuance). The first known American orphanage was established to care for children orphaned by the 1729 Natchez uprising at Fort Rosalie. The Ursuline nuns in New Orleans founded it; they had arrived in 1727. The orphanage fed, clothed, and trained hundreds of orphaned children. Sources: histclo.com, Newsweek, Philanthropy Roundtable, PMC. Some sources place the orphanage in New Orleans (where the Ursulines operated) rather than Natchez; the cause was the Natchez massacre.
Claim: Orphan trains moved homeless children from Eastern cities westward.
Status: Validated. The Children's Aid Society (founded 1853 by Charles Loring Brace), Children's Village, and the New York Foundling Hospital transported approximately 200,000–250,000 children from crowded Eastern cities (primarily New York) to rural foster homes in the Midwest between 1854 and 1929. Causes cited: immigration (especially Irish potato famine), financial panics, depressions, overcrowding. By the 1850s, an estimated 30,000 homeless/orphaned children lived on New York streets. Critics note inadequate screening, exploitation as farm labor, and that many were not truly orphaned—children of poor and immigrant families. Sources: Children's Aid, HISTORY, Britannica, Wikipedia, orphantraindepot.org.
Claim: Many orphans were Indian children captured and re-educated at the youngest age.
Status: Validated (pattern). The U.S. operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states/territories between 1819 and 1969. Goals: "civilizing" and assimilating Native American children. Methods: forced removal of cultural signifiers (hair cutting, uniforms), forbidding native languages, replacing tribal names with English/Christian names, corporal punishment, religious conversion. The BIA and churches ran these schools; children were often forcibly separated from families. Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse documented; some children died from disease. Biden formally apologized in October 2024. Sources: Wikipedia, AP, National Geographic, Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report (2022).
Claim: The Khmer Rouge deliberately exploited children as both victims and agents of genocide; this pattern has repeated.
Status: Validated. At S-21 prison, 100–200 children were killed; infants bludgeoned in the Killing Fields. Duch (chief jailer) stated children were killed "because we were afraid those children would take revenge." Some children were forced to serve as guards. The Khmer Rouge killed ~1.7 million Cambodians (1975–79); the Killing Fields saw 1.3+ million deaths. Sources: Reuters, ABC, Wikipedia, Independent. The pattern of children as both victims and agents is documented.
Author's sentiment: The planet experienced a mass life die-off during the MFEE period. Parents were increasingly unable to care for their children. The orphan phenomenon was active from that point forward—before the trains. The trains were simply the evolution of the phenomenon, making it more organized. New York and London experienced recurring "population control" that reset cities with orphans. Immigration, industrialization, and war compounded what was already underway.
Paradigm-threat context: The Mars Catastrophe and MudFlood Energetic Event (late 18th century, ~1774) correlate with Pugachev, carbon-14 spike, and electrical rebound. If Earth and Mars both suffered catastrophic disruption, mass orphaning would be a direct consequence. The orphan phenomenon predates the trains; the trains (1854+) represent the institutionalization and scaling of a response that had been building since the MFEE.
Evidence to pursue: Mortality spikes in 1770s–1790s; orphanage founding dates post-1774; population data for New York/London; cholera, tuberculosis, influenza epidemics in the 19th century as secondary cascades.
See primary article: The Trail of Tears: A Century-Long Erasure (1758–1839+)
Revised thesis: The "Trail of Tears" was not a single event (1830–1839); it was a century-long campaign (1758–1851+). The reservations preceded the MudFlood Energetic Event (~1774) by sixteen years. What followed was systematic erasure of Native American civilization, memory, and technology.
Total duration: At least 93 years (1758–1851), arguably 211 years (1758–1969).
By 1839: Native Americans had been confined, displaced, starved, and stripped of technology for 81 years. They had become what we remember them as: "without a kingdom, without technology, using sticks and stones." This was not how they began. It is how they were made.
The strongest, most resistant populations may have been driven across the Bering Strait into Siberia. Fomenko notes that Siberia became an exile destination after Pugachev (1774). Timing: before 1774, Romanovs could not exile to Siberia (it was Moscow Tartary); after 1774, Siberia is "wreckage" — depopulated, available as penal colony. First documented exile to Tobolsk: Radishev, 1790. Weaker, more compliant groups remained on U.S. reservations. No primary-source evidence found; timing is suggestive.
Author's sentiment: The goal was to transform Earth into a "communist utopia" mirrored after civilization on Mars. Capturing and re-educating children at the youngest age is a repeated pattern—in Indian boarding schools, Khmer Rouge Killing Fields, and elsewhere. Children are used as both victims (to break resistance) and agents (to enforce the new order).
Validated parallels:
Paradigm-threat connection: WotW Martian civilization, telepathic purge. If Mars civilization was hierarchical and relied on purging telepaths, the terrestrial "communist" template—breaking lineage, repurposing children—may encode the same control logic.
War displacement is cited as a major factor in orphaning. The Revolutionary War left many orphans (Charleston, 1794). The Civil War created "unprecedented need" for orphan care (histclo). Immigration (Irish famine, etc.) and epidemics (cholera, tuberculosis, influenza) compounded the crisis. The orphan train movement explicitly responded to "dangerous classes" and urban overcrowding—both exacerbated by war and economic collapse.
| Source | URL | Content |
|---|---|---|
| histclo orphanage chronology | histclo.com/insti/orp/us/ous-chron.html | First US orphanage 1729 Natchez, 19th c. orphanages |
| Children's Aid | childrensaidnyc.org/about/orphan-train-movement | Orphan train movement, 120,000+ children |
| NPS Trail of Tears | nps.gov/trte | Official scope, death tolls |
| Federal Boarding School Report | bia.gov (2022) | 408 schools, 1819–1969 |
| Khmer Rouge tribunal | Reuters, ABC, Independent | Children as victims and agents |