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 much more. I will try to cover various topics from different eras hopefully we can take a journey through history together. You can follow me on twitter, face book, gmail and you tube @strangetalespodYou can support the podcast if you wish, any help is much appreciated https://www.patreon.com/strangetalespod#history #truecrime #conspiracy #unsolved #podcast.
Episodes
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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....
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Operation Iceberg -The battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945, was the largest amphibious...
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The North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, United States on February 28, 1997.…
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The life and times of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe born Norma Jeane Mortenson June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962 was an American actress, model, and singer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and married at age 16. She was working in a factory during World War II when she...
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The siege of Havana
The surrender of Havana led to substantial rewards for the British naval and military leaders and smaller amounts of prize money for other officers and men. The Spanish governor, Admiral and other military and civil office holders were court-martialed upon their return to Spain and punished for...
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The toolbox killers
Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris, also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed five teenage girls in Southern California over a period of five months in 1979. Bittaker and Norris became known as the "Tool Box Killers" because the...
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The bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government Over 1,400 paramilitaries, divided into five infantry battalions and one paratrooper...
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DB Cooper part 2
D. B. Cooper is a media epithet (actual pseudonym: Dan Cooper) used to describe an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. After a stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom...
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DB Cooper part 1
D. B. Cooper is a media epithet (actual pseudonym: Dan Cooper) used to describe an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. After a stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom...
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Robert Philip Hanssen FBI double agent
Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former FBI double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1976 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S....
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Charles Ponzi
Charles Ponzi born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 15, 1949 was an Italian swindler and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases include Charles Ponci, Carlo, and Charles P. Bianchi. Born and raised in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a...
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Nuestra Señora de Atocha and the Spanish treasure fleet
Nuestra Señora de Atocha Spanish for Our Lady of Atocha was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold,...
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Project cointelpro
COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations. FBI records show COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals…
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Lazarus group part 2
Lazarus Group also known by other names such as Guardians of Peace or Whois Team is a cybercrime group made up of an unknown number of individuals. While not much is known about the Lazarus Group, researchers have attributed many cyberattacks to them over the last decade. Names given by...
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Lazarus group part 1
Lazarus Group also known by other names such as Guardians of Peace or Whois Team is a cybercrime group made up of an unknown number of individuals. While not much is known about the Lazarus Group, researchers have attributed many cyberattacks to them over the last decade. Names given by...
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The works of banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a...
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WikiLeaks-Vault 7
Vault 7 is a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish on 7 March 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The files, dating from 2013 to 2016, include details on the agency's...
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Caligula
Caligula, formally known as Gaius was the third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 to 41AD. The son of the popular Roman general Germanicus and Augustus's granddaughter Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner museum art theft
In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves tied the guards up and looted the museum over the next hour. The...
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The Vikings empire
Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring people primarily from Scandinavia who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Middle East, North America, Constantinople,...
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Hells Angels MC
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is a worldwide one-percenter motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the…
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The pirate queen-Zheng Yi Sao
Zheng Yi Sao also known as Ching Shih meaning wife of Ching was a Chinese pirate leader who terrorized the South China Sea from 1807 to 1810. She was a prostitute who married a pirate and rose to prominence after his death. Regarded as one of the most powerful pirates in human history, she...
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Pink Floyd part 2
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of the...
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Pink Floyd part 1
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of the...
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Contra, cocaine & the C.I.A.
A number of writers have alleged that the United States Central Intelligence Agency the CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations during the 1980s Nicaraguan civil war. These claims have led to investigations by the United States government, including hearings and...
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Escape from Alcatraz
There was a daring escape planned 15 months in the making at one the most legendary prison of all time the rock, Alcatraz. Late on the night of June 11 1962 inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris tucked papier-mâché heads resembling their own likenesses into their beds, broke out…
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The life & times of Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American billionaire, business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and financially successful individuals in the world. He...
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The great gold robbery of 1855
The Great Gold Robbery took place 15 May 1855 United Kingdom, when a routine shipment of three boxes of gold bullion and coins was stolen from the guards carriage of a train transporting the gold from London to Paris. In the safes were 224 pounds or 102 kg of g valued at the time £12,000...
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Agent zig zag
Hello and welcome to the very first episode of the strange tales podcast here we will look at the weird and wonderful tales from history, true crime, conspiracy’s and much more. I will try to cover various topics from different eras hopefully we can take a journey through history together. In our...
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Trailer
Hello and welcome to the strange tales podcast this is a brand new podcast where we will take a look at the wild and sometimes wacky stories from history, true crime, conspiracy and much more. I will try to cover various topics from different eras hopefully we can take a journey through history...
About this show
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 much more. I will try to cover various topics from different eras hopefully we can take a journey through history together. You can follow me on twitter, face book, gmail and you tube @strangetalespodYou can support the podcast if you wish, any help is much appreciated https://www.patreon.com/strangetalespod#history #truecrime #conspiracy #unsolved #podcast.
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