203: The Unbreakable Betty Lou Oliver
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In 1945 New York City, one woman cheated death. Twice.
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| 0:55.7 | The woman who died twice, I'm Jason Horton, I'm Rebecca Leeb, and this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:21.9 | July 28, 1945, started like any other for Betty Lou Oliver, almost any other day. |
| 1:28.5 | The 20 year old arrived at her place of work, the Empire State Building in New York, and |
| 1:32.9 | stepped into the elevator where she had been a full time attendant. |
| 1:36.2 | It was her last day on the job she thought, and it would be special. |
| 1:39.6 | And she was not wrong, it was a special day for her, and one that would be unlike any |
| 1:45.6 | other in most people's lives. |
| 1:48.7 | The day would be tragic, it would break records, it would change Betty Lou Oliver forever, |
| 1:54.5 | and she would go down in history as the woman who cheated death twice. |
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