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

318: The Midwest FurFest Attack

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A chlorine gas attack on a Furry convention in 2014 remains a mystery. 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/4bcBCTo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Rebecca Leib.

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And this is Ghost Town. In the early morning hours of December 7, 2014, hundreds of convention years were getting ready for the next day's event at the Rosemont Illinoisatt, until panic struck.

1:33.6

Anoxious gas had filled the hallways of the hotel, and attendees fled the structure in a panic.

1:39.8

As the chemicals filled the hallways of the Hyatt, Guess eyes burned, they couldn't breathe.

1:44.6

They wondered if this would be their last day on earth.

1:47.9

Even stranger was that these guests were furies,

1:51.3

and they were all at Midwest Furfest the second largest furry

1:54.9

convention in the country attended by thousands and this particular

1:59.0

incident still talked about in furry circles all over the world.

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