A Happy Explosion - West Side Baptist Church

True Crimecast

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In 1950, a fiery explosion leveled the West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, just as choir practice was set to begin. Miraculously, all 15 choir members—known for their punctuality—were late that evening, each delayed by seemingly trivial reasons. Was it a stroke of incredible luck, or something more divine?

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:13.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.6	Hey, happy New Year. Let's blow some stuff up.
0:20.9	But let's make it happy, like a happy explosion.
0:25.0	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.8	Welcome to true crime to go.
0:34.2	I am John here with Jamie.
0:36.0	Happy explosion.
0:36.9	Happy explosions, man. That is a lot. A lot. Yeah.
0:42.9	I teased it that we are going to be talking about some awful stuff on our regular show,
0:47.4	True Crimecast. We talked about Vince McMahon and some childhood, not childhood,
0:52.3	but some children who were exploited and potentially abused in
0:56.5	some very awful ways.
0:58.2	It's really bad stuff.
0:59.3	So today I wanted to talk about something happy, but it is a mystery.
1:03.3	And when we first started seven and a half years ago or so, we said that like our tagline,
1:10.3	it two friends, what was it, two friends,
1:13.6	a murder and a mystery and a microphone and a mystery. Yeah, so this is definitely on the more
1:19.3	mysterious side of things and not the murder side. It is. I'm going to be honest with you. I heard
1:23.8	about this a long time ago. I don't know if it was on Unsolved Mysteries or where.
1:28.6	I've been unable to locate it, but I had heard about this a long time ago, and it is
1:34.2	fascinating and very mysterious. And I'm excited to get into it. This was on Unsolved Mysteries,
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