336: The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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A bizarre and harrowing kidnapping takes place in 1968.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees? |
| 0:05.0 | Are you interested in exploring the paranormal? |
| 0:07.0 | Faffled by stories of previous lives. |
| 0:10.0 | Well so are we. |
| 0:11.0 | In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena |
| 0:17.0 | and some horrific true crime cases. |
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| 0:22.5 | and join us every Tuesday, |
| 0:24.6 | wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | And be prepared to be totally and utterly, |
| 0:29.7 | perplexed. Buried Alive. I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm Rebecca Leeb. |
| 0:51.9 | And this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:16.4 | Music I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. On December 17, 1968, Emery College student Barbara Mackle was readying herself for midterm exams. |
| 1:22.5 | Battling the flu, Barbara was nervous about her performance, like many other college students at the time. |
| 1:26.5 | But the end of finals wouldn't be what Barbara envisioned. |
| 1:29.3 | In fact, the next days of her life would manifest like a horror movie. Her mother chloroformed, herself kidnapped for ransom and then |
| 1:35.4 | buried alive in a high-tech coffin, while the FBI, including J. Edgar Hoover himself, would be |
| 1:42.7 | frantically trying to find her. Today on Ghost Town, |
| 1:46.4 | the macabre kidnapping of socialite Barbara Jane Mackle. At the end of 1968, Barbara was |
| 1:53.2 | attending Emory University in Atlanta when she got really sick with the flu. Trying to tough it out, |
| 1:59.3 | her flu got so bad that she had to leave one of her exams. |
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