Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” Was Partly Based On Real Bird Weirdness

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1961, a news report in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about a strange bird event along the coast of California that ended up shaping an iconic movie about a strange bird event. Plus: this week in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, the King Coal Show. Here’s the real story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ (Popular Science)King Coal Association Back our show today on Patreon and keep the shows about weird bird happenings coming

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