During World War II, the German Luftwaffe began a massive bombing campaign over London and the surrounding British countryside known as The Blitz. By night, London would shut off all the city lights in order to make it more difficult for bombers to find targets. This also allowed for a brutal serial killer to begin stalking the city streets. #serialkiller #serialkillers #murder #world war II #podcast #history #historypodcast #horror

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In the winter of 1874, prospector Alfred G. Packer headed out into the Colorado mountains with a group of five other men. Only Packer returned alive. According to stories, either Packer was a desperate man driven to do some terrible things to survive, or one of the greatest monsters the old west has ever known.

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In 1916, a series of deadly shark attacks occurred along the Jersey shore. This is the true story that some people say inspired Jaws.

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast

Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/Close-Shore-Terrifying-Shark-Attacks-ebook/dp/B000FBFN2E/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1501113922&sr=1-1&keywords=close+to+shore

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150702-shark-attack-jersey-shore-1916-great-white/

Music:

Phillip Weigl, Not the Streets You Used to Walk Along

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Philipp_Weigl/

Chris Zabriskie, The Oceans Continue

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DexterBritain/CreativeCommonsVolume2/TheTeaParty

Kai Engel, Oeucumene Sleeps, Summer Days, Rejecting the Sirens, Difference, Pacific Garbage Patch, Homelands Ashes

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

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Without a doubt, the greatest detective in literature is Sherlock Holmes. When the world’s most foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes was found strangled to death, he left behind a mystery that may have baffled even...

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Starvation is a terrible way to die. This is the true story of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor who lived in Washington in the early 20th century. Hazzard’s bizarre treatments may have resulted in as...

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The true stories of Charles Domery and Tarrare, two men whose insatiable hunger needs to be heard to be believed. Each of these men were able to eat insane amounts of food, and very possibly...

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A full three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London, there was another vicious serial killer who terrorized people in the city of Austin, Texas. The killer known sometimes as The Servant...

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A recent National Geographic poll showed that more than 77 percent of the public believes that aliens from another planet have visited the earth at some point in history. It’s disturbing enough when a person...

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New York in the early part of the 20th century was struck by a typhoid epidemic. An investigator managed to track down the unlikely cause, a 37-year-old cook named Mary Mallon. Although would go on...

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In New Orleans in the 1800s, a mysterious Turkish Sultan moved into a lavish mansion in New Orleans’s French Quarter. Legend has it that a bloody massacre occurred  and no one knows who did it....

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