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

167: The Cowboy Bob Mystery

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

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In the 1990's, no Texas bank was safe from the mysterious and misleading Cowboy Bob. New video: https://youtu.be/aCfq_KghVSU Sleep Whispers: https://sleepwhispers.com/podcast-2/ Rate the show: https://ratethispodcast.com/ghosttownpod Haunted Merch: http://bit.ly/ghosttownstuff Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3sCoPVP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you struggle to fall asleep, then you may want to try my sleep whispers podcast.

0:07.0

The problem may be your loud neighbors, or maybe there's restless squirrels living inside your

0:15.1

brain. I can't sedate your neighbors, but I can tranquilize your brain squirrels with my gentle

0:23.5

whispering. Check out my sleep whispers podcast and I will whisper you to sleep with bedtime stories,

0:32.2

guided meditations, fun trivia questions, and curious Wikipedia articles.

0:39.6

Just go to sleepwhispers.com or search for sleep whispers in your podcast app.

0:48.8

Squirrels be going down tonight.

0:52.3

And unlikely outlaw. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

1:07.2

On a morning in May 1991, a 10-gallon hat-wearing, sun-glassed, beer-bellied,

1:17.6

bearded individual exited in 1975 to door Pontiac Grand Prix to enter the American federal

1:24.1

bank building in Irving, Texas. The person stepped into the bank's lobby and headed towards

1:28.3

the counter where a young female teller was smiling cheerfully. Hello, sir, the teller said,

1:33.2

how may I help you? The bearded man slipped the teller a note. This is a bank robbery at red.

1:39.5

Give me your money. No marked bills or die packs. The stunned teller handed over a stack of cash

1:45.6

from her drawer. The robber nodded, stuck the money in a satchel, and walked out of the bank.

1:50.0

A seamless robbery with a perpetrator vanishing into the afternoon. This was the start of the

1:54.6

near flawless run of large-scale bank robberies that occurred between 1991 and 1992. They called the

2:00.8

robber Cowboy Bob because of the 10-gallon hat he always wore, coolly alluding cops for years,

2:07.1

and then after serving time having one more wild ride, this is the legendary tale of Dallas bank

2:14.0

robber Cowboy Bob. So Cowboy Bob, again, I keep saying that name. It feels comical, but it is

2:20.2

kind of endearing too, was always calm, completely unarmed, polite, always almost completely silent.

2:28.8

He avoided security cameras, checked each bill for marks or die packs, die packs are those small,

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