#229: The Vanishing School Bus - 26 Kids Went Missing Together

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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When someone goes missing without a trace, it’s enough to make the hair on our arms stand up. One second they are here; the next second, they are gone. When 26 kids vanish into thin air on their school bus… the whole nation loses their minds. Chaos. Parents calling authorities. People running up and down the streets calling the kids names. FBI booked out every single room in every hotel in the town. And finally, a lead. The mayor’s wife received an anonymous phone call. “The children will be found. But there will be others. It’s not over.” Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bramble.
0:01.0	Better being better, boo.
0:02.6	Welcome to this week's mini-sode of Rotten Mango.
0:05.6	I'm your host Stephanie Sue.
0:08.1	When somebody goes missing without a trace, it's enough to make the hairs on my arm stand
0:12.2	up.
0:13.2	It just doesn't make sense in a lot of these situations.
0:15.2	I don't think that humans, we don't like things where we can't make sense of it, which I think
0:21.1	is why we resort to coming up with the most bizarre conspiracy theories that we can imagine
0:25.8	up because at least knowing something gives us some sort of comfort.
0:29.7	But when someone goes missing, no trace, no clue, no lead just vanish into thin air, one
0:35.1	second there in a bar, the next second there gone, no CCTV cameras catch them leaving
0:39.6	the bar, one second there at an airport, the next second they're caught running away from
0:43.9	the airport and never seen again on the face of this planet.
0:47.6	One second, they're on the phone with their loved ones telling them that something weird
0:50.6	is happening, the phone clicks and they're gone, vanished into thin, and they're gone.
0:55.7	Air, it is enough to drive people mad, where did they go?
1:00.7	It just doesn't make sense.
1:02.0	Well in the small rural town of Chao Chila, California, it was amplified to the 27th
1:09.3	degree because 27 people vanished into thin air at the same time.
1:16.4	Not just any ordinary people either, elementary school kids, 26 kids and their bus driver,
1:22.8	gone.
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