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

244: The Dark History of Colonel Sanders

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

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A fast food pioneer has a dark, strange, and violent history.

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0:00.0

This Sunday were lied from the home of smart energy use three Acacia Drive and Dave Davo peck them off to a

0:05.8

Floyer bat's cooking next week's meals off night nutmeg and now the washing machines on then straight into the

0:12.3

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0:20.6

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Sunday's 11 to 4 ends 24th of September season sees apply smart meter required

0:30.0

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because we have it too. So whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling, whatever you need to ask about cancer

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1:00.0

A cursed colonel I'm Jason Horton I'm Rebecca Leib and this is Ghost Town

1:20.0

We've profiled many a strange life on Ghost Town podcast and I have to admit when I first started researching

1:27.0

Today's episode I was looking more at the controversy and mystery surrounding KFC's secret recipe chicken than the colonel Sanders himself

1:35.0

But my research took a turn when I realized how absolutely insane the godfather of fast food fried chicken actually was

1:44.0

So days and many articles later I'm here to tell the story of Harland David Sanders

1:50.0

Father, farmer, lawyer, midwife, grifter, salesman, ferryboat captain, fireman, cook, violent defender and filanderer

1:59.0

But also arguably the most iconic face in the history of fried chicken

2:04.0

Harland David Sanders was born on September 9th 1890 on a small farm in Henryville, Indiana

2:10.0

to Wilbert Sanders a butcher and Margaret Ann Dunneve just five years into his quiet midwestern life

2:15.0

the chaos that would characterize Harland's life began

2:18.0

In 1895 his father closed his butcher shop early and stumbled home in the middle of the day feverish and pale

2:25.0

He would die quickly thereafter

2:27.0

Wilbert Sanders sudden death put the Sanders family into a tailspin

2:32.0

forcing Margaret to take work at a local tomato canning factory in addition to doing freelance sewing for nearby families

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