Ezekiel Stone Wiggins (1839 – 1910) was a Canadian weather and earthquake predictor known as the “Ottawa Prophet”

He was also the author of several scientific, educational and religious works.

• Wiggins wrote the “Architecture of the Heavens containing a new theory of the universe and the extent of the deluge, and testimony of the Bible and geology in opposition to the views of Dr. Colenso“. Wiggins’ theorized that storms, unusual tides, earthquakes and cyclones were all caused by planetary attraction, and that both visible and invisible planets could shift the Earth‘s centre of Gravity.
  •  ^{Harrowsmith’s Truly Canadian Almanac, 2010}
• He claimed to have predicted the 1869 Saxby Gale. He claimed that the sun was merely an electric light, which did not generate any heat.
  •  ^{www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=49742.0 No heat at all in the sun: Professor Wiggins says it’s an electric light -that the earth has a second satellite he knows an eon of storm and earthquake possible The New York Times}

• Wiggins, an amateur epidemiologist, theorized that the cause of a Yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida in 1888 as astronomical. “The planets were in the same line as the sun and earth and this produced, besides Cyclones, Earthquakes, etc., a denser atmosphere holding more carbon and creating Microbes. Mars had an uncommonly dense atmosphere, but its inhabitants were probably protected from the fever by their newly discovered canals, which were perhaps made to absorb carbon and prevent the disease. ” 
  • “John W. Cowart, “Yellow Jack in Jacksonville,” Yellow Fever visited Duval County, Florida in 1888″. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2012-08-10.

• After the Charleston Earthquake of 1886, Wiggins announced that a more powerful disaster would occur at 2 p.m. on September 29; believers in North America panicked, quit work, and dressed in “ascension robes and waited for the end of the world”.
  • ^{“Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius ‘Upheaval in Charleston: How the great Charleston earthquake forever changed an iconic southern city”. Archived from the original on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2012-08-02.}
  • What is an ascension robe?
    • When White Ascension Robes Were the Height of Fashion; The Millerites Who Were Almost But Not Quite “Wafted Into the Realms of Light Beyond the Skies”

• Wiggins and gullible newspapers who carried his predictions were labelled cranks and fools in 1886. “A learned man may become a fool by assuming the role of a “Weather Prophet” for instance. Wiggins and the crank who publishes and edits the Bradford Prophet are notable instances,” advised the editor of the Flesherton Advance.
  •  ^{Tit-Bits Flesherton Advance, July 15, 1886} 
• Wiggins was advised to quit weather-propheting. “Give up weather-propheting, Mr. Wiggins, for you have proven on two occasions that you are not constituted for this line of business… Wiggins, you are about the most unmitigated and unabridged fizzle we ever heard of. In fact, you are no Weather-Prophet’
  •   ^{Puck, Volume 12, Issue 355} 
• American and Canadian newspapers published humorous poems ‘The Modern Barney Buntline’; and humorous stories ‘The weather prophet’s lament’ about Wiggins storm prophecy.
  •  Toronto: Grip Print. & Pub. Co., Vol. 27, no. 15 (October 16, 1886)

• Mark Twain wrote a humorous prophecy about Wiggins, which appeared in American and Canadian newspapers. “As meteor approaches Canada it will make a majestic downward swoop in the direction of Ottawa, affording a spectacle resembling a million inverted rainbows woven together, and will take the Prophet Wiggins right in the seat of his inspiration and lift him straight up into the back yard of the planet Mars, and leave him permanently there in an inconceivably mashed and unpleasant condition.”
  • ^{twainquotes. com/Prophecy.html Mark Twain on Wiggins Archived April 11, 2005, at the Wayback Machine}
  •  ^{http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2010/03/anniversary-of-wiggins-storm.html John D Reid Anniversary of Wiggins Storm: Tuesday 9 March 2010: Today marks the 127th anniversary of a storm that never happened}

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