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Reader discussion: Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
Public reader discussion about Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey in the WeRead Catalog by Ingersoll Lockwood.
Not really a conspiracy, but TIL: Of Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, a children's book, first published in 1883, which details the adventures of a wealthy boy living in "Castle Trump".
By Small-Mug1980
This kind of brings me back to that book that felt weirdly close to the Titanic disaster.
Edit: I found this article—seems pretty good. It compares the Titan to the Titanic, and it was posted about 14 years before the iceberg ended up hitting the “unsinkable” ship for real. Not sure if that’s just coincidence, but it’s definitely creepy.
Internet Freaks Over 19th-Century Books Featuring Boy Named ‘Baron Trump’
By field-chance8064
The thing they link to has like 500-ish upvotes and 200 comments, and honestly it feels like it barely even made a dent. Could be a bit of hyperbole though.
Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey By Ingersoll Lockwood (1893)
By Bottle66
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Baron Trumps Marvellous Underground Journey a real book written in 1889 how do people not know about this?
By mellowturtle2006
Is Baron Trump some kind of time traveler? I know Trump’s uncle John G. Trump apparently took a bunch of tech from Nikola Tesla a while back, but what exactly was it? Like, was it a time machine or something? Also… why does this book show up like 120 years before Baron was even born?
I Calculated the Odds of the Baron Trump Books Being a Coincidence—The Results Will Shock You
By AquaDog80
I’ve seen people mention Ingersoll Lockwood’s old books, like *Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey* (1893) and *The Last President* (1896), and somehow they line up with Donald Trump’s whole deal. It’s such a weird mirror that I first figured it was just one of those dumb internet theories.
But then I actually sat down and ran the odds, because it felt too wild not to.
So… the chance of it all happening by random coincidence came out to like **1 in 1.25 × 10⁴⁷**. Which is basically **1 in 125 quattuorvigintillion**. I know that number is so massive it doesn’t even feel real—like, it’s beyond the number of atoms in the universe or whatever. To me, that’s not “unlikely,” that’s “this can’t just randomly happen.”
And what I’m talking about is the specific parallels, not just vague similarities. Stuff like the “Baron Trump” name, Don having him as a mentor, the president living on Fifth Avenue, the riots after the election, even a character named Pence. I estimated how rare each of those would be in a random 1800s book, treated them like independent things, and multiplied them to get the total. That’s how the result ended up that insane.
So yeah—either Lockwood had some kind of hidden info, or there’s something deeper going on. Also, try looking up “Ingersoll Lockwood” and what it supposedly translates to. Absolutely madness.