Topic: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A strange connection is drawn between Charles Howard Johnson and the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow through Johnson's illustrations for the book "Evangeline." Bosley details a mystery involving the Longfellow family tomb, where authorities discovered that the bodies of several family members were missing. This anecdote serves to highlight the mysterious circles in which Johnson moved and the lack of records regarding his own final resting place.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is identified as a promoter of the Norwegian Romantic Nationalist movement, which sought to prove Viking origins for the Newport Tower in Rhode Island. Longfellow and his associates, including violinist Ole Bull, allegedly schemed to create a narrative of Norse settlement in New England for political and cultural reasons. This movement predated the actual discovery of Viking sites in Newfoundland.