A Man and his Canoe
Lost In The Woods Podcast
lostinthewoods
3.9 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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