Unbelievable Moments Captured at Burning Man

The Beginning of an Era

Coincidentally, tons of people wanted to come to figure out what was on fire. The 100 people that gathered that one evening in 1986 tried to recreate the event the next year but it was shut down by the police. They moved the burning to the desert, and the rest is history. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.