160: The Schlitterbahn Death Slide

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Kansas City, Kansas was home to the world’s tallest...and deadliest waterslide.. New YouTube: https://youtu.be/JXm3r2-YZ14 Haunted Merch: http://bit.ly/ghosttownstuff Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3Ac1Bcd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Slide into death. I'm Jason Horton.
1:03.0	I'm Rebecca Leeb.
1:04.0	And this is Ghost Town.
1:20.0	Authorities are still investigating how a water slide named Verookt, which means insane in German,
1:26.0	led to an inconceivable tragedy for one Midwestern family.
1:31.0	On Sunday, August 7, 2016, 10-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of the world's tallest water slide,
1:40.0	at Schlitterbahn Park in Kansas City.
1:43.0	In the 18 seconds it takes to ride the slide, the 76-pound Caleb would hurl into the air
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