“Just because someone says it, it’s not necessarily true.”

Alaska bush pilot Archie Ferguson was famous for inventing “The Arctic Bump.” He convinced passengers flying from Nome to Kotzebue there “was no air” over the Arctic Circle. (Kotzebue is 35 miles north of the Circle.) Then, as he flew over the Arctic Circle, he cut the power to his plane and let it fall thousands of feet. It scared the living daylights out of the passenger! Today commercial jets flying over the Arctic Circle add a dollop of power to “bump” when they cross the Arctic Circle.

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

“Just because someone says it, it’s not necessarily true.”

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