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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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A fast food pioneer has a dark, strange, and violent history. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial!) Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3XOIKiQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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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