Houston Man's Strange Inheritance Of Lunar Bibles Lands In Court

HOUSTON, TX — A Houston man is fighting an out of this world legal battle to keep a collection Bibles that landed on the Moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.

Most conisder the Holy Bible to be the mostly widely read book in history, but very few realize that the Bible made its way to the lunar surface with astronaut Edgar White in 1971.

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It was Jonathan Stout's father, John Stout, an ordained minister and a NASA pioneer, who seized the opportunity to create 300 copies of the Holy Bible on microfilm that went to the Moon 47 years ago.

It's a story you'll see Monday night on the Fox Business Network's 100th episode of Strange Inheritance at 9:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. CT, and will re-air on Wednesday and Good Friday.

John Stout was 95-years old when he passed away in 2016, and it was assumed the lunar Bibles that weren't given to away by the elder Stout would pass to his son Jonathan.

However, Carol Mersch, an Oklahoma author challenged Stout, and claims she befriended Stout's father in 2009 while writing a book about the lunar Bibles.

Mersch claimed that Stout gave her 10 of the Bibles, which are believed to be worth millions.

In May 2017, Mersch was awarded those 10 lunar Bibles by an Oklahoma judge, but the case could be far from over.

Image: Courtesy of Fox Business Network: Strange Interitance Host Jamie Colby meets with Houstonian Jonathan Stout who talks about his strange inheritance of Lunar Bibles. The episide airs Monday night on the Fox Business Network.

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