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Oh god, I just watched a video about John Frum, and now this subthread, it briefly felt like a delusion.

The wikipedia article includes references from a couple of decades earlier, at least; e.g.

> Nat. Geographic: May 1974. "Tanna (Island, New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean) Awaits the Coming of John Frum (cargo cults of Melanesia since about 1940)".

(See https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TANNA-A... for a scan of the full article.)

> It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact.

Did you look at the references section in the article?

This is a great documentary about the situation: https://johnfrummovie.com/