After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York archaeologists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, in California an archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: “California Archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.”

One week later, The Wheeling News Register, a local newspaper in West Virginia, reported the following: “After digging as deep as 30 feet in a pasture near New Vrindaban in Marshall County, West Virginia, Bhakta Chris, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bhakta Chris has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, West Virginia had already gone wireless.”