Mark Craddock
17 min readJan 28, 2021

THE EPIPHANY OF JACOB WHITE EAGLE

How a shaman, a street fortune teller and an obscure footnote led me to a distant namesake — a Victorian sex therapist married to a ghost

By Mark Craddock

On June 30, 2013, at roughly 12:35 p.m., David Red Feather had an epiphany.

It happened at a busy intersection in downtown Albuquerque. David had stopped at a red light. As he described it to me, five archangels appeared…