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The Burning of the Drum | A Brief History of Fort Drum and the Philippines
03/01/2022
The Burning of the Drum | A Brief History of Fort Drum and the Philippines
‘We're the Battling B*stards of Bataan, No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam, No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces, And nobody gives a damn!’ In 1945, the US came back to Manila Bay, to retake the city and their concrete battleship in an act of brutal revenge. It's time for a history lesson. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Black Market Express | Balvano Train Disaster
12/10/2021
The Black Market Express | Balvano Train Disaster
The Balvano train disaster, also known as The Black Market Express, was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Taking out the Trashman
10/12/2021
Taking out the Trashman
Debbie Scaling was desperately looking for help. She had been hired to deliver a luxury yacht, Trashman, to its new owner in Fort Lauderdale. The owner of this sleek 58-foot Alden luxury sailing yacht with a pine-green hull and elegant teak trim, had made his millions in the garbage business, hence naming his new yacht- Trashman. The crew delivering his new toy though? Not so well assembled. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Flight of the Double Sunrise
03/19/2021
The Flight of the Double Sunrise
The Double Sunrise service was formed in 1943 to re-establish the Australia–England air link that had been cut due to the fall of Singapore in 1942. The service initially operated from its base in Nedlands, Western Australia near Perth, to the Royal Air Force base at Lake Koggala near Galle in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). It was later extended to Karachi in India (now part of Pakistan), which was the terminus for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) service from England. The name of the service was derived from the crew and passengers observing two sunrises on each flight. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Constable B | Ride The Lightning, B*tch!
03/06/2021
Constable B | Ride The Lightning, B*tch!
Time for a nice sit down chat with one of our fine women in blue. Constable B is a member of the Western Australian Police and an avid fan of history and an all-round awesome chick! I hope you enjoy our chats as much as we did. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Loki 7 | Roger Charles Bell
01/23/2021
Loki 7 | Roger Charles Bell
The blast blew out windows and sent metal fragments flying, ripping through walls and wooden beams inside the Prince Edward Island courthouse, shattering the stillness of a fall Monday morning. It was Oct. 10, 1988, just after 6 a.m. The homemade pipe bomb had been hidden in a flower bed at the rear of the building. The force was so powerful it drove some pieces of metal into the judges’ chambers on the second floor. In such a comfortably rural society, where crime is largely an abstraction and the people are suspicious of mainland influences, something like Loki 7 was a homegrown horror. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Disappearance of Harold Holt
01/01/2021
The Disappearance of Harold Holt
On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria. An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered. Holt was presumed to have died, and his memorial service five days later was attended by many world leaders. It is generally agreed that his disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning, but a number of conspiracy theories surfaced, most famously the suggestion that he had been collected by a Chinese submarine. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Sydney Mini-Sub Attack
11/18/2020
The Sydney Mini-Sub Attack
Now, just because Australia was never successfully invaded during WWII, does not mean the plans were not thrown around in a few different war rooms. In early 1942 elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed an invasion of Australia. In the end, the Japanese military adopted a strategy of isolating Australia from the United States by advancing through the South Pacific. This offensive was interrupted and eventually abandoned following the Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of Midway in May and June 1942, and all subsequent Japanese operations in the vicinity of Australia were undertaken to slow the advance of Allied forces. In Australia however, the government, the military and the people were deeply alarmed after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942, now, the biggest wartime port in the region- was Sydney. It is hard to imagine an enemy so audacious that it would simply sail into Sydney Harbour and attack, what was at the time the largest metropolis in Australia. But Sydney Harbour is peppered with the remains of nineteenth-century fortifications built to defend the city against seaborne attacks by Spain, France and Russia. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Rackman | Horrors at Hawkesbury River
09/06/2020
Rackman | Horrors at Hawkesbury River
Inland Australia’s complex system of winding rivers, extensive wetlands, ancient waterholes and seemingly endless parched floodplains are rarely given more than a passing thought by many Australians, understandably so, most Australians live on the coastal fringes. Yet these waterways are a natural attractor along which communities and trade have flourished. Etched into the psyche of regional Australia, these river systems are the pulse of the outback... but the beauty is haunting in more ways than one. The isolation provides ample opportunity to dispose of a body. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Cannibal Island | Terror at Nazinski Island
07/25/2020
Cannibal Island | Terror at Nazinski Island
To the Russian officers in Stalin’s politburo, it was named for the local farming village of Nazino, others would refer to it as Nazinski Island, but to the locals the Island had a much more sinister name. A name that speaks for itself when reflecting the horrors that unfolded on that little slice of Russian hellscape. To the locals, it is known simply as- Cannibal Island or the Island of Death. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Franklin Expedition | The Search For The Northwest Passage
05/23/2020
The Franklin Expedition | The Search For The Northwest Passage
The Inuit told of a group of forty men dragging a boat south, they were all very thin and using sign language made it known that their ship had been crushed in the ice, they purchased a seal from the Inuit. Later the same season, the same party were encountered, or at least what remained of them about a day’s walk from the Great Fish River. The men Rae spoke to had not seen the group first hand but were recounting a story told to them by others. The scene described was apocalyptic, there were scattered dead bodies, in tents, under the upturned boat or out in the open. Many of the bodies has been hacked with knives and human remains were reported in cooking pots, they said there were thirty dead in that place, another five dead were found on a nearby island... It was a quest that had consumed some of Europe’s most accomplished mariners for almost four centuries, a generations-spanning obsession that chipped away at the European understanding of North America’s high latitudes, oftentimes at great cost to both vessels and lives. The search for the fabled Northwest Passage. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Darcy Freeman | A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
04/06/2020
Darcy Freeman | A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISTURBING THEMES Over the decades since its construction, countless people have chosen to end their lives at Melbourne's West Gate bridge. Many of those who landed in water, surviving the fall, drowned afterwards. Tragically, this is the fate that met an innocent 4-year-old girl, Darcy Freeman. Obviously, 4-year-old girls aren’t predisposed or statistically likely to commit suicide… Darcy Freeman, was thrown from the West Gate bridge, hurled into the abyss by the one person that should’ve been her ultimate protector, her father. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Pipes, Pistols And Ponies | C. Y. O'Connor
03/10/2020
Pipes, Pistols And Ponies | C. Y. O'Connor
Charles Yelverton O'Connor was best known for developing Fremantle Harbour and for the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme (often known simply as the Goldfields Pipeline), it was the latter project that drove him to despair and to eventually take his own life. "I feel that my brain is suffering and I am in great fear of what effect all this worry may have upon me — I have lost control of my thoughts." O'Connor wrote the letter on March 10, 1902, the same day he rode his horse past Fremantle Harbour, south to Robb Jetty, then into the breaking waves of the West Australian coast, where he would take his own life with a single pistol shot. So what drove one of the greatest engineering minds of the young, emerging Australian nation to take his own life? Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Life Under Mugabe | An Interview
02/15/2020
Life Under Mugabe | An Interview
To go along with our upcoming Robert Mugabe timeline episode, I sat down with some of Jack's family friends. Denis Charles Petmezaki, his wife Fay and their daughter Cal, all grew up in- what was at the time Rhodesia- now Zimbabwe. Denis has written a book entitled "So Far And So Good"- tales from the London blitz to the African bush and on to Australia: a life of uncommon adventure. Denis was born in 1931, he is currently 89 years old, the fact that he and his family took time out of their day to sit down and share their experiences was a real pleasure. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed the homemade sausage rolls they provided during the recording! Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Robert Mugabe | The Rise and Fall
02/12/2020
Robert Mugabe | The Rise and Fall
In 1965, the area in Africa then known as Rhodesia — the colonialist name for the region that’s now Zimbabwe — had established a new regime in the wake of British colonial rule. When the country’s white leaders declared its independence late that year, TIME magazine noted that it was “the first nation in history to launch itself into a world all but unanimous in its hostility.” The U.N. also called it an “illegal racist minority regime.” By the time a decade had passed, it was clear to all — except maybe some white Rhodesians who were not willing to accept the inevitable — that the existing government would not last much longer in the face of guerrilla resistance at home and disapproval around the globe. In a desperate attempt to stall the coming change, black activists were routinely jailed. Robert Mugabe was one of these activists… So was he a freedom fighter, political activist, an evil dictator or all of the above? Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Pandemics And Plagues | An Interview With Nurse Erin
02/10/2020
Pandemics And Plagues | An Interview With Nurse Erin
With all the talk of Coronavirus and pandemics spreading the globe, it's time to sit down with someone that knows what's up... "Nurse Erin" took time out of her busy schedule to sit down with us and share the ins and outs of all things plagues, pandemics and pestilence. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Coronavirus | Plagues, Pandemics and Panic
02/01/2020
Coronavirus | Plagues, Pandemics and Panic
In the realm of infectious diseases, a pandemic is the worst case scenario. When an epidemic spreads beyond a country’s borders, that is when the disease officially becomes a pandemic. Communicable diseases have been around since before modern humans even appeared on the global stage. These diseases existed during humankind’s hunter-gatherer days, but the shift to agrarian life 10,000 years ago created communities that made epidemics more possible, and even more deadly. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Black Saturday Bushfires | When Australia Burns
01/12/2020
The Black Saturday Bushfires | When Australia Burns
"The temperature became torrid, and on the morning of the 6th of February, the air which blew down from the north resembled the breath of a furnace. A fierce wind arose, gathering strength and velocity from hour to hour, until about noon it blew with the violence of a tornado. By some inexplicable means it wrapped the whole country in a sheet of flame — fierce, awful, and irresistible." Bushfires have been a part of the Australian landscape for millions of years, but regardless of this fact of nature, some of the worst will always stay burned into our minds. The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were among Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters. The fires occurred during extreme bushfire weather conditions and resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of human life from a bushfire. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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State Sanctioned Abuse | Violence at Don Dale
12/23/2019
State Sanctioned Abuse | Violence at Don Dale
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that the following episode may contain audio and voices of deceased persons. The Don Dale Youth Detention Centre was the Northern Territory's first purpose-built institution for young male and female offenders from across the Northern Territory aged from 10 to 16 years. Built in 1991, it was originally located adjacent to Berrimah Prison. In recent years the centre has become infamous for systematic abuse of detainees. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Kurim Case | A Czechoslovakian Cannibal Cult
12/06/2019
The Kurim Case | A Czechoslovakian Cannibal Cult
Man’s inhumanity to man is a tale as old as time. However, what I find really interesting, isn’t the random acts of violence, or the calculated ponderings of some sadistic psychopath. What really freaks me out, is when a parent carries out the most inhumane acts on a child, their child, their own flesh and blood… Genetically speaking we’re predisposed to want to nurture and protect our offspring, but sometimes, the wires of parental care get crossed, and a truly demonic presence is unleashed on the world. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Chowchilla | A School Bus Kidnapping
11/11/2019
Chowchilla | A School Bus Kidnapping
The rise of kidnappings in America during the early 20th century, spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. The passing of the Federal Kidnap Act didn’t slow down the lucrative business of kidnapping though. 44 years after the infamous Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case… On a sunny afternoon- July 15, 1976, 26 children boarded a school bus, which would shortly after be boarded by three masked gunmen… 11 hours later, the children, and their bus driver, would all be buried alive. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Bluebelle | An Orphan On The Ocean
10/23/2019
Bluebelle | An Orphan On The Ocean
In 1961, a picture was snapped of a young girl who was discovered adrift, alone, on a small lifeboat in the waters of the Bahamas. The story of how she ended up there is one of murder, greed and heartbreak. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Cicada 3301 | An Unsolved Internet Mystery
10/06/2019
Cicada 3301 | An Unsolved Internet Mystery
Cicada 3301 is a nickname given to an organization that on three occasions has posted a set of puzzles to recruit codebreakers/linguists from the public. The first internet puzzle started on January 4, 2012 on 4chan.com and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 4, 2013, and a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014. The stated intent was to recruit "intelligent individuals" by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved. The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, steganography, internet anonymity, and surveillance, and to this date, the puzzles ultimate aim remains unsolved. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Granny Killer | The Monster of Mosman | John Wayne Glover
09/19/2019
The Granny Killer | The Monster of Mosman | John Wayne Glover
The first handshake was firm, his manner charming, as he chatted about clues for the crossword he was doing. Neither of us could take our eyes off his hands - small, freckled, but immensely powerful. Later, he even demonstrated how he would hit the elderly women: "With 16-stone coming crashing down on them, they didn't stand a chance." John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women, over a 14-month period in 1989-1990, for which he was dubbed in the press as the "Granny Killer" and "The Monster of Mosman". Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Project Azorian | K-129| Russians and the C.I.A
08/29/2019
Project Azorian | K-129| Russians and the C.I.A
Project Azorian was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974, using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred approximately 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northwest of Hawaii. Project Azorian was one of the most complex, expensive, and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War at a cost of about $800 million, or $4 billion today. After stories had been published about the CIA's attempts to stop publication of information about Project Azorian, Harriet Ann Phillippi, a journalist, filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA for any records about the CIA's attempts. The CIA refused to either confirm or deny the existence of such documents. This type of non-responsive reply has since come to be known as the "Glomar response" or "Glomarization." Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Papin Sisters
08/18/2019
The Papin Sisters
In the French city of Le Mans, in 1933, the Papin sisters were convicted of a murder so significant that it would shake the bedrock of French society and influence French intellectuals such as- Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Lacan. These leading intellectuals, and others, sought to analyze the events that took place surrounding the sisters and draw connections between them and that of a deep seeded class struggle taking place between different aspects of French society at the time. This is the gruesome story of Christine and Lea Papin. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Carousel Interview Victim | Hugh Brown| Documentary Photographer
08/05/2019
Carousel Interview Victim | Hugh Brown| Documentary Photographer
Hugh Brown risks his life to document the men, women and children who mine precious minerals by hand in brutal conditions. He's encountered crocodiles, braved the "mountain that eats men" and documented over 30 countries — and he isn't done yet. Hugh Brown has recently returned from one of the world's largest silver mines — Bolivia's Cerro Rico. It roughly translates to "rich mountain" but also has a much darker moniker — the "mountain that eats men". It's an ancient death trap that has claimed the lives of as many as eight million miners in the past 471 years. Now, he joins Carousel Sniper Victim for an interview... Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Rod Ansell | The Real Crocodile Dundee
07/22/2019
Rod Ansell | The Real Crocodile Dundee
A decade before the Hollywood sensation of Crocodile Dundee exported the Australian Outback to the rest of the world, Rod Ansell grabbed headlines in his home country by surviving a 56-day ordeal in the harsh, outback Australian bush. What followed were interviews with the press, book deals, television coverage, a very popular movie… and eventually, a crazed decent into paranoia, ending… in a deadly shootout with Australian Territorial Police. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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Disaster At Quecreek Mine
07/04/2019
Disaster At Quecreek Mine
On June 22, 2002, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million gallons of water. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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The Lock Hospital Horrors
06/11/2019
The Lock Hospital Horrors
Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands across Western Australia and taken to 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands for treatment for suspected venereal diseases. Many never returned home. Listen to "The Breakdown" here
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