The Nymza Mystery Airships
In this week’s episode, the Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt joins author and publisher Walter Bosley to explore the airship mysteries surrounding a Prussian emigrant by the name of Charles Dellschau. He primarily worked as a butcher in Texas during the 19th century, but also might have spent some time in California during the Gold Rush.
We say might have because later in his life, holed up in an attic, he painted a series of watercolors and drawings that depict airships. He claimed these ships were developed by other Prussians who belonged to the Sonora Aero Club in California. The ships are not balloons, but mechanical airships that flew by harnessing the power of Rankin turbine engines, often used in steamers.
Was Dellschau giving us an account of actual history or are these airships the work of his imagination? And what might be the significance of the term “Nymza,” describing the group of Prussian Nationalists that Dellschau introduces.
Bosley specializes in exploring historical occult mysteries and is publisher of the Lost Continent Library. Here, he chronicles the story of Dellschau’s paintings, how they were lost and then subsequently rediscovered.
