As a kid in America, we always learned that the America's were discovered by Italian explorer and navigator, Christopher Columbus, by learning this specific rhyme from our teachers "In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue". Columbus wasn't the first explorer to set foot on North American or Canadian soil. Nearly 500 years before his birth, a band of Vikings left their homeland behind in search of a new world. Their high powered Viking Longship sliced through the unfamiliar cobalt waters of the Atlantic Ocean, until these Norsemen spied a new land, dropped anchor, and went ashore. But what if the Norsemen, the Vikings...ventured even further into the wilderness of the Southern United States, reaching what we know today as the states of Oklahoma and Arkansas, well according to some interesting finds within both states, it might have been possible, with the Heavener Runestone & the Van Buren Mystery Grave.

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Researched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Wikipedia "Many Topics of Information" Explore Southern History "Heavener" Explore Southern History "Mystery Grave" Roadside America "Tip 1507" Arkansas Road Stories "Van Buren Mystery Grave" Atlas Obscura "Heavener Runestone" Heavener-Runstone.com History.com "The Viking Explorer who beat Columbus to America"

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