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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/rileythelostboy on 2026-05-19 16:09:05+00:00.

Tesla claimed his brain was "only a receiver." In 1899 he built a lab in the Colorado mountains and started picking up repeating electrical patterns he couldn't explain. He eventually became convinced they were transmissions from somewhere he couldn't name.

He spent the rest of his life building toward free wireless electricity for the entire planet. J.P. Morgan killed the funding when he realized it couldn't be metered. The tower was scrapped to cover Tesla's debts.

He died alone in 1943. The morning after, his room was already rummaged through and a private notebook was missing. Two days later the government seized 80 trunks of his belongings. Only 60 made it to Serbia. The other 20 are still unaccounted for...