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astonishing dead letter office. Tonight's episode, The Hatman takes a seat.

So this dead letter comes to us tonight from Josh B in suburban Atlanta, and yes, he gave us

permission to share the location as well as his first name.

And while I've only been to Atlanta a few times,

this is my current neck of the woods, the urban south, now that I'm in North Carolina. But the subject of the story, the Hatman or A Hatman, is a global phenomenon. Indeed it is. We've

come to learn. And I always love teasing you about this when I first broached the subject of covering it way back.

This might have been, I don't know, 2015, 2016.

Yeah.

But I was coming across this concept.

And again, a lot of this was listening to Jim Harold's campfire about these people's stories.

And I started noticing the patterns here of why the hat? It's a global phenomenon,

as you say, why the need for the hat? And then as you learn more about this, as we have on our

journey of exploration back in the day, the Middle Ages and earlier, it may have been a monk's

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