291 // Who Is The Gentleman of Heligoland?

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode, Tim & Lance speak with old friend Ken Davies from the Fred the Head podcast about his new obsession, The Gentleman of Heligoland. Ken has teamed up with his mate Iain Mackay and together they are determined to solve this decades old mystery: In July 1994, the body a man was fished out of the North Sea, near the German Island of Heligoland. Dressed smartly and with a complete absence of identifying information, the body was simply named ”The Gentleman”. Nearly thirty years later is still unnamed and unclaimed. Listen to The Mysterious Case of the Gentleman of Heligoland here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mysterious-case-of-the-gentleman-of-heligoland/id1610978724 Listen to Fred the Head here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mysterious-case-of-fred-the-head/id1557099549 Articles referenced for this episode: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/heligoland-the-gentleman-researchers-mystery-german-cold-case-marks-spencer https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/03/bid-to-identify-brit-dubbed-the-gentleman-found-at-sea-28-years-ago-16044837/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/push-identify-brit-dubbed-gentleman-26122792 Get $30 off your fertility test when you go to ModernFertility.com/crawlspace30. Download the FREE Upside App and use promo code: Crawlspace to get $5 or more cash back on your first purchase of $10 or more. Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play and get $5 worth in game rewards when you reach level 5. Don’t miss the True Crime Obsessed Tour as we visit a city near you! Get your tickets here: https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/see-us-live For ad-free (and more!) episodes, including this one, please check out our Crawlspace subscription service at https://crawlspace.supportingcast.fm/ Check out our Missing subscription service where we have a bonus show and ad-free episodes! https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Join the Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Crawlspace Media is part of the Glassbox Media Network. Check them out here: https://glassboxmedia.com/ Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ to connect your existing Amazon account to donate to PI's For the Missing. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:31.0	Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim, here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?
0:39.0	I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. I couldn't be better. We have an old friend back on who's joining us with a new friend
0:46.0	talking about a new, extremely mysterious case that takes place across the ocean before we get to that.
0:53.0	How are you?
0:55.0	Thank you for asking. I am doing great.
0:58.0	It was great to reconnect with Ken Davies of the Fred the Head Podcast, the mysterious case of Fred the Head.
1:04.0	He is back with his old friend Ian, and they have launched a new podcast called the mysterious case of the gentleman of Heligoland.
1:12.0	And the gentleman of Heligoland is the nickname of an unidentified body who was found off the waters of Heligoland,
1:18.0	which is a tiny little island, and he was found in 1994.
1:22.0	And I believe they are up to eight episodes, and you can find that podcast wherever you enjoy listening to podcasts, the mysterious case of the gentleman of Heligoland, that is H-E-L-I-G-O-L-A-N-D,
1:35.0	and follow them as they continue their journey to discover who this man is, and how did he turn up in the area of the North Sea near that little German island of Heligoland?
1:47.0	Yeah, it is really interesting. They have dove deep, and there is sort of a renewed interest in the case online.
1:54.0	So if you google it, you will find a lot of recent news articles, most of them come out of the UK.
1:59.0	So some of those will be linked in the show notes.
2:02.0	Hey Tim, I am just curious what you are up to every other weekend in August, this year.
2:06.0	Well, Lance, it almost feels like you were setting me up for something by the way you asked that question.
2:11.0	Not at all.
2:12.0	We are going on tour with Patrick Hines of True Crime Obsessed and Maggie Freeling.
2:18.0	We are heading up six different cities in August 2022.
2:22.0	Tim, you nailed it. We are headed out to the fine city of Orlando, Florida on Wednesday, August 3rd.
2:29.0	Then you can catch us in West Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday, August 4th.
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