6,000 DEAD: THE WIND FROM DUGWAY

In the spring of 1968, the wind carried something invisible across a Utah valley. By the next morning, the snow was full of the dead.

This is the true story of the day a secret Army base on the edge of the Great Basin tested one of the deadliest substances ever made — and the wind did not cooperate. Six thousand animals fell across Skull Valley in a matter of hours. A rancher ate a handful of snow that morning and spent the rest of his life paying for it. And the people responsible spent thirty years insisting none of it ever happened.

No cloud. No sound. No warning. Just a clear cold morning, a flock in the snow, and a truth that someone decided wasn't worth saying out loud.

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About the show: Dust and Echoes is a weekly podcast of historical true crime, unsolved mysteries, monsters, and the dark corners of history — told as cinematic audio by James Cawley. The stories are true. The trail is cold. Press play.

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