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Dream On
Koyle said God commanded him not to write of his dreams. Thus, Koyle’s many startling predictions were recorded only by his closest followers. Several well-known Koyle dreams, drawn from the Ogden Kraut’s John Koyle’s Relief Mine, and The Dream Mine Story by Norman Pierce, are detailed below:

1912: Koyle’s vision of polygamists in Mexico contradicts the promise of LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith. In 1890, the LDS Church banned the practice of polygamy in the United States, causing many polygamists to settle in Mexico. The church officially forbade plural marriage worldwide in 1910. To offer consolation to members in Mexico who would now have to give up plural marriage, Smith promised that the next temple would be built there. Learning of this announcement, Koyle disagreed. According to his dream, settlers would flee Mexico with only two bags per person. In 1912, Mexican revolutionary forces led by General Pancho Villa forced these settlers out of Mexico allowing them only two bags per person. The next temple was not built in Mexico.

1918: Koyle predicted World War I and that the Utah Battalion would be spared casualties. In 1908, Koyle saw in a dream the horrors of World War I, a war he claimed would take the 145th Field Artillery squad (mostly Utah men) to Europe. He also saw that they would see no action nor suffer any casualties. Fred Squires, a Salt Lake City barber, hearing that the 145th had been called to the front lines, drove down to Spanish Fork to confront Koyle as a liar. Koyle reassured him the 145th would be safe. Squires read this news in an early morning Nov. 18, 1918, paper. By the time he returned to Salt Lake City, news of the signing of the Armistice arrived, and along with it came the peace that spared the boys of the 145th.

1929: Koyle foresaw the stock market crash. Koyle warns his banker and LDS stake president Henry Gardner to call in his loans before October of 1929. Gardner is most grateful for the tip.

Many say Koyle never got one wrong, but there is disagreement. Read about this revelator’s “misses” in the Feature Sidebar, Dead Ahead: More Dream Mine signs of the end of the world, and other prophecies. You’ll also read about a revelation Koyle believed was given to Joseph Smith but actually intended for Koyle as well as more signposts of the apocalypse.