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Lost In The Woods Podcast

A Man and his Canoe

Lost In The Woods Podcast

lostinthewoods

True Crime

3.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In 2002 John Darwin would set off in his canoe from his home in Hartlepool and vanish. In 2007 a man would walk into a police station claiming to be John Darwin  get in shape with Marie💪🏻 https://www.1stphorm.app/marieschedler https://1stphorm.com/?a_aid=marieschedler&a_bid=acc524e5&chan=Lostinthewoods our links: https://open.spotify.com/show/4yFbZbdtAtCeKAsDlnAkew?si=WecC4XCUQb2c0pjIXjSCpw https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-in-the-woods-podcast/id1504163212 https://www.instagram.com/lostinthewoodspodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/lostinthewoodspodcast https://my-store-11745950.creator-spring.com/ https://linktr.ee/Lostinthewoodspodcast buy us coffee☕️ https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2323643837186048330&created=1633816408.531276&printed=1 http://paypal.me/lostinthewoodspod Sources: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/canoe-conman-john-darwin-real- 22730430 https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/tv/john-darwin-did-his-sons-mark-and-anthony- ever-forgive-mum-and-dad-disown/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lifeboat-crew-called-out-find-26747566 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7135773.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2271193.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20100813043948/https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/new s/missing-canoeist--wreck-is.611443.jp http://dev.myweather2.com/City-Town/United-Kingdom/StocktononTees/Seaton-Car ew/climate-profile.aspx?month=3 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10727343/John-Darwin-spotted-GARDENI NG-home-work-colleagues-shortly-faking-death.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/canoe-man-john-darwins-cover-26732176 https://web.archive.org/web/20071211162223/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main .jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/ncanoe309.xml https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207024/John-Darwin-the-dead-canoeist-wr ites-memoir.html https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/how-did-john-darwin-get- caught-and-where-are-he-and-his-wife-anne-now/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darwin_disappearance_case#cite_note-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20071211162223/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main .jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/ncanoe309.xml https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-canoe-man-john-darwins-26699326 https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/what-happened-canoe-man-john-6980403 https://www.rya.org.uk/knowledge/safety/look-after-yourself/cold-water-shock https://www.ok.co.uk/lifestyle/panama-photo-anne-john-darwin-26758265 https://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/news/20050412.itv-recreates-canoe-couples-infa mous-photo-new-drama/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207024/John-Darwin-the-dead-canoeist-wr ites-memoir.html

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:17.0

Hi, guys. I'm Marie.

0:18.5

And I'm Maddie.

0:19.4

And we are here recording Lost in the Woods.

0:21.8

Welcome back for another week.

0:25.7

So today we are taking you to a small northern town called Hartleypool in the UK.

0:33.6

And this case took place 20 years ago when a local man took his canoe down to the local beach and vanished.

0:47.6

So this is the story of John Darwin.

0:52.2

So Hartlepool is a little town on the northwest coast of England. And to give you guys some

0:57.7

context about the size of this town, it has a population of roughly 92,000 as of this year. So it's

1:07.3

kind of small, but not tiny. There's a university and it has a football stadium.

1:13.5

I would say anything with a football stadium feels like a big town to me.

1:17.7

Also, the people in this town have been referred to, jokingly, as monkey hangers due to a story that in the 19th century a French ship wrecked off the coast

1:32.0

and the townspeople found a washed-up pet monkey and hanged it as a French spy.

1:42.8

Like, I'm sorry, what?

1:45.7

So people actually, this town, at one point,

1:50.7

hanged a monkey that they thought was a French spy.

1:56.0

That had washed up from a shipwreck.

1:58.2

Was he alive?

1:59.9

Yeah, obviously.

2:01.1

They killed a monkey because they thought it was a spy?

2:03.6

Yeah.

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