Strange Tales Podcast

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Hello and welcome to the strange tales podcast presented by me your host Winston R Douglas. We are a weekly podcast that looks a weird and wonderful tales from history, true crime, conspiracy’s and mu... more

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October 06, 2023 Kim Philby the British Soviet Union double agent
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1
January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double
agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the
Cambridge Five, a spy ring which passed information to the Soviet Union during
World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of the five, Philby is
believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the
Soviets.
He was also responsible for tipping off two other
spies under suspicion of espionage, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, both of
whom subsequently fled to Moscow in May 1951. The defections of Maclean and
Burgess cast suspicion over Philby, resulting in his resignation from MI6 in
July 1951. He was publicly exonerated in 1955, after which he resumed his
career as both a journalist and a spy for SIS in Beirut. In January 1964,
having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow,
where he lived until his death in 1988.
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September 08, 2023 The Strangeways prison protests
The 1990 Strangeways Prison riot was a 25-day prison
riot and rooftop protest at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England. The riot
began on 1 April 1990 when prisoners took control of the prison chapel, and the
riot quickly spread throughout most of the prison. The riot and rooftop protest
ended on 25 April when the final five prisoners were removed from the rooftop,
making it the longest prison riot in British penal history. One prisoner was
killed during the riot, and 147 prison officers and 47 prisoners were injured.
Much of the prison was damaged or destroyed, with the cost of repairs coming to
£55 million.
The riot sparked a series of disturbances in prisons
across England, Scotland and Wales, resulting in the British government
announcing a public inquiry into the riots headed by Lord Woolf. The resulting
Woolf Report concluded that conditions in the prison had been intolerable, and
recommended major reform of the prison system.
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August 11, 2023 Project Stargate
Project Stargate which was a secret U.S. Army unit
established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA). Work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to
psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great
distance. The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes
"Skip" Atwater, an aide and "psychic headhunter" to Maj.
Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute. The unit
was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of
"an old, leaky wooden barracks".
The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified
in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any
intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague and
included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there was reason to suspect that
its project managers had changed the reports so they would fit background cues.
The program was featured in the 2004 book and 2009 film, both titled The Men
Who Stare at Goats, although neither mentions it by name.
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July 13, 2023 The Pendle witch trails
The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the
most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of
the 17th century. The twelve accused lived in the area surrounding Pendle Hill
in Lancashire, and were charged with the murders of ten people by the use of
witchcraft.
The official publication of the proceedings by the
clerk to the court, Thomas Potts, in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches
in the Countie of Lancaster, and the number of witches hanged together – nine
at Lancaster and one at York – make the trials unusual for England at that
time. It has been estimated that all the English witch trials between the early
15th and early 18th centuries resulted in fewer than 500 executions; this
series of trials accounts for more than two per cent of that total.
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June 15, 2023 Fleetwood Mac part 2
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed
in London in 1967. They were founded by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick
Fleetwood and guitarist Jeremy Spencer, before bassist John McVie joined the
lineup for their self-titled debut album.
Originally primarily a British blues band, Fleetwood
Mac scored a UK number one with "Albatross", and had other hits such
as the singles "Oh Well" and "Man of the World". All three
guitarists left in succession during the early 1970s, to be replaced by
guitarists Bob Welch and Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker.
Fleetwood Mac have sold more than 120 million records
worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling bands. In 1979, the
group were honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1998 the band
were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award
for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2018, the band received the MusiCares
Person of the Year award by The Recording Academy in recognition of their
artistic achievement in the music industry and dedication to philanthropy.
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May 14, 2023 Fleetwood Mac part 1
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed
in London in 1967. They were founded by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick
Fleetwood and guitarist Jeremy Spencer, before bassist John McVie joined the
lineup for their self-titled debut album.
Originally primarily a British blues band, Fleetwood
Mac scored a UK number one with "Albatross", and had other hits such
as the singles "Oh Well" and "Man of the World". All three
guitarists left in succession during the early 1970s, to be replaced by
guitarists Bob Welch and Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker.
Fleetwood Mac have sold more than 120 million records
worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling bands. In 1979, the
group were honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1998 the band
were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award
for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2018, the band received the MusiCares
Person of the Year award by The Recording Academy in recognition of their
artistic achievement in the music industry and dedication to philanthropy.
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31min
April 17, 2023 James "Whitey" Bulger part 2
James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston.
On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for sixteen years and was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1999.
He was finally apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, on June 22, 2011. After his 2011 arrest, federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on the grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates.
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March 19, 2023 James "Whitey" Bulger part 1
James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston.
On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for sixteen years and was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1999.
He was finally apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, on June 22, 2011. After his 2011 arrest, federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on the grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates.
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February 16, 2023 Mata Hari
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, she was a Dutch exotic Asian inspired dancer that toured Europe. Mata Hari, meaning “eye of the day” in Malay, in reality she was born in a small town in northern Holland in 1876.
She became a famous courtesan, and with the outbreak of World War I her catalog of lovers began to include high-ranking military officers of various nationalities. In February 1917, French authorities arrested her for espionage and imprisoned her at St. Lazare Prison in Paris. In a military trial conducted in July, she was accused of revealing details of the Allies’ new weapon, the tank, resulting in the deaths of thousands of soldiers.
There is evidence that Mata Hari acted as a German spy, and for a time as a double agent for the French, but the Germans had written her off as an ineffective agent whose pillow talk had produced little intelligence of value. Her military trial was riddled with bias and circumstantial evidence, and it is probable that French authorities trumped her up as “the greatest woman spy of the century” as a distraction for the huge losses the French army was suffering on the western front.
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December 27, 2022 Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book was the code name for the systematic study of unidentified flying objects by the United States Air Force from March 1952 to its termination on December 17, 1969. The project, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was initially directed by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt and followed projects of a similar nature such as Project Sign established in 1947, and Project Grudge in 1948. Project Blue Book had two goals, namely, to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and to scientifically analyze UFO-related data.
Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed, and filed. As a result of the Condon Report, which concluded that the study of UFOs was unlikely to yield major scientific discoveries, and a review of the report by the National Academy of Sciences, Project Blue Book was terminated in 1969. The Air Force supplies the following summary of its investigations:
By the time Project Blue Book ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural phenomena clouds, stars, etc. or conventional aircraft. According to the National Reconnaissance Office a number of the reports could be explained by flights of the formerly secret reconnaissance planes U-2 and A-12. 701 reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis. The UFO reports were archived and are available under the Freedom of Information Act, but names and other personal information of all witnesses have been redacted.
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