Everywhere he went
39 places in 8 countries, from a doorbell on Marlane Drive to a congress in the Swiss mountains. A map is the most confident form a claim can take, so every pin here says what it rests on, and the thin ones say they are thin.
Pins are solid where a record made at the time says so, hollow where somebody remembered it later or the sources disagree, and dashed where the archive has found no source at all. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Every place, in order
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Where the twins were small. The Columbus Dispatch has him born and living on Columbus's East Side before the family moved to Grandview Heights; the street is Livingston Avenue, which runs for miles and which the archive pins as an avenue rather than a house.
Reported Somebody remembered it later. No record has been found.
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The second boyhood town, and the one he finished school in. The archive now holds seven pages of the Grandview Heights yearbooks: Stan in the class groups of 1957 and 1958, in the reserve football team, and on the senior portrait page with his activities line....
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Where the twins went straight out of high school, and where Stan joined Air Force ROTC. Stephen is the only source.
Reported Somebody remembered it later. No record has been found.
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The Korean Demilitarized Zone Military service
His military service, and the only pin on the map outside the western hemisphere that has nothing to do with the water fuel cell. One source: his twin, forty-five years later. He was discharged from the DMZ and reached his mother's door within an hour of Steph...
Reported Somebody remembered it later. No record has been found.
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The town he worked in for twenty-three years, and the one that reported on him while he did it. The Grove City Record carried the solar silo through 1976 and 1979; the police cordoned off the laboratory in 1998.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The Hughes house. Charles and Valorie Hughes took him in after he rang the doorbell; he sat for hours, stayed the night, and stayed about three years. Beside the house he built the solar silo, and in the family kitchen he baked the thousands of resin light gui...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus Worked there
The Columbus research giant, a few miles from the Grove City shop, and the one line of his biography a newspaper confirmed while he was alive: the Record called him a former Battelle electronics technician in October 1976, when it was reporting on the silo. Hi...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The conference centre at Deer Creek State Park, where he gave the talk the archive holds in five transcribed parts, and where the thirty seconds of tape that the synthetic voice is built from were recorded.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The farm where the buggy was demonstrated in 1985. The archive holds the community's account of it rather than a contemporaneous record.
Reported Somebody remembered it later. No record has been found.
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The house meeting of 1989, transcribed in four parts: the closest thing in the archive to Stan explaining himself in a front room. The town is not stated anywhere in the holdings, so the pin sits on the country.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The SAFE congress — the Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Freie Energie — at the end of October 1989. Eight hundred participants from sixteen nations over two days. It is the best documented journey he ever made, and the sources still cannot agree on the...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The house and the laboratory. It is printed as the inventor's address on the front page of US 4,826,581 in 1989 and it was still his in 1998, when the police cordoned it off. Dr Hensroth rented him the garage.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The Fayette County seat, and the town at the centre of the 1996 case. Rick Schneider rented hangar space at the airport here to machine WFC parts for the Bushmaster conversion; most of the dealership investors who later sued were local; and the Court of Common...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The International Extraordinary Science convention, and a News 13 segment. The year used to be an open question — the archive's transcripts are labelled 1991, the introductions he was given later say 1990 — and a Dorset newspaper settled it: writing from the o...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The Global Sciences congress. Three sources give three cities for what may be one event: the archive's own transcript says Orlando in 1992, a news piece says Daytona in 1991, and a workshop introduction says New York City in 1991. The pin follows the transcrip...
Sources disagree The sources do not agree. The panel lists what each one says.
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The 1993 lecture, and the biography read out to introduce it — the source for the parts business, the fortune it made, and the Battelle and NASA claims the archive has never been able to confirm.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The 1997 lecture and the evening workshop, both transcribed. Among the last public teaching he did.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Fifty-six acres approved by the Grove City planning commission in January 1998, bought by Philippe Vandemoortele, who had been funding him since 1995. The Water Fuel Cell Development Center was to be inaugurated on Saturday 21 March 1998. He died that afternoo...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The Cracker Barrel where four men sat down on the Friday evening: Stan, his brother Stephen, and the two Belgians. He took a sip, grabbed his neck and went outside. This is not where he died, though nearly everyone says it is.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Where he actually died, the day after the dinner. The coroner found a ruptured brain aneurysm and high blood pressure; toxicology found lidocaine and phenytoin and nothing else. He was 57.
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Fort Recovery, Ohio Appeared there
Remembered as a stop, possibly written up in a local paper. The archive searched everything it holds — every document, every photograph caption, every message on its Discord — and found no mention of Fort Recovery at all. That is not a denial; it is the size o...
Unsourced The claim is current, but the archive has found no source for it.
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New York Appeared there
A reader wrote to say her late husband did side jobs in New York for Meyer, and that she remembers him talking about the car that ran on water. That is the whole of it: the account is second hand, it says "NY" without saying where, and it does not say that Mey...
Unsourced The claim is current, but the archive has found no source for it.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Meant to go
He never went. This is the one pin on the map for something that did not happen: a car entered in the Indy 500, negotiated for and talked about for a decade, and never raced. James Wight had the pace-car idea. The archive draws it because the intention is as w...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Sri Lanka Appeared there
Drawn because the claim is current, and labelled for what it is. Every mention of Sri Lanka in the archive — all four — is the PCT list of designated states printed inside Meyer's international applications: "LK Sri Lanka", between Liechtenstein and Luxembourg...
Unsourced The claim is current, but the archive has found no source for it.
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A Sunday at the lake, and a hospital list on the Tuesday. "Stanley Meyer, 21, of Columbus, was treated for injuries suffered while diving at the beach at Rocky Fork Lake." The age and the town fit a man born in August 1940 and living in Columbus; the name is c...
Reported Somebody remembered it later. No record has been found.
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Where he was married, at Olmsted Community Church on Saturday 15 June 1963, to Betty Jane Saxa of Cook Road. The Plain Dealer announced the engagement the previous September and the wedding the morning after it happened. The archive has no record of when the m...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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The earliest speaking engagement the archive can date and place: the ten o'clock worship hour on Sunday 21 November 1982, before the deacons' Thanksgiving carry-in dinner. Seven years before Einsiedeln, and the audience was a Darke County congregation. The not...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Three fairs, not one. He took the cell on its own in 1983 and 1984; in May 1985 he showed the Darke County Agricultural Society a video of the cell driving an engine and asked for an hour in front of the grandstand. The board weighed the Saturday before the st...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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Guest speaker at the Sidney chapter of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, Saturday 20 June 1987, six o'clock at Dale's Smorgasbord. The notice carries the fullest list the archive holds of what he said he had built before the water fuel c...
Documented A record made at the time says so.
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SEER '94, the Solar Energy Expo and Rally. The local paper's guide printed a photograph of Meyer's dune buggy, lettered WATER POWERED Car, told readers they could "find out more about Stan Meyer's water fuel cell" there, and listed "Atomic Energy of Water", "W...
Reported Somebody remembered it later. No record has been found.
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The archive has a hundred documents about Grove City and nothing at all about the parade somebody remembers him in. The difference is not that one happened. If you were there, or your family was, tell us where and what you remember. A photograph or a link helps. Everything is read by a person before it appears, and nothing is published with your name on it unless you ask for that.