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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

102: Harvey's Casino Bombing

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The 1980 bombing of Harvey's Casino rocked the Lake Tahoe community. New YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/AJ4lAUZiBJk Support Ghost Town on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Follow Ghost Town on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/2X4sHkh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All bets are off. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. Oh, Okay, The only statement that I am making at this time is we did have an explosion as everyone knows and there's been moderate damage done to the east side of

0:49.4

Harvey's wagon wheel. We were attempting to render the device safe. We had a procedure that we felt would work.

1:05.0

There was some error factor in that procedure.

1:08.0

We knew of the errors that could be made,

1:10.0

but due to the circumstances that were confronting us at the time we had to make the decision,

1:15.0

not only were we involved, there was many people involved, I'm not going to mention them all,

1:20.0

the management and the owner of the property was involved in the final

1:25.1

decision and it was a decision made that we had to take a chance We did and the device went off.

1:34.0

On August 26, 1980, three men delivered a large box to the second floor of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino in

1:41.6

State Line, Nevada, located at the south shore of Lake Tahoe, inside the box,

1:47.1

a $3 million ransom note, and a 1,000 pound bomb. Are you in? Are you with us? This is sexy. This is sexy I can feel it. I love it. I love a

1:57.8

ransom note. I love a bomb and I love a casino baby. Let's get started.

2:02.0

That's a holy Trinity for you. I love a casino baby let's get started.

2:03.0

That's a holy Trinity for you.

2:07.0

You're talking about the Harvey Casino bombing of 1980?

2:10.6

Mm.

2:12.3

I said I made good of my promise I was like more crime more crime more crime more

2:17.3

crime more crime and more crime just in time true crime but a different kind of

2:21.2

true crime than some people are accustomed to that's good and this one my brother turned me on to my brother to your brother is the coolest he's he's really good I think he knows what works and I think especially also for Strange Year he kind of knows like oh this is weird you

2:36.5

yeah and then I take credit for it and he gets nothing he gets absolutely nothing

2:40.8

perfect just like this.

2:43.0

Yeah, well, you know.

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