A Very Cold Case

Sidedoor

Smithsonian Institution

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

American newspaper publisher and all-around eccentric, Charles Francis Hall, was an unlikely candidate to become an Arctic explorer. Nevertheless, he made three trips to the frozen north, until he died there under suspicious circumstances. Sharpen your powers of deduction and join us on Sidedoor for an epic frozen whodunit, featuring shipwreck, romance, and a social media darling with a dark secret.

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0:00.0	This is Side Door, a podcast from the Smithsonian with support from PRX.
0:13.7	I'm Lizzie Peabody.
0:24.0	On a chilly day last spring, Emily Neckrish posted a photograph on Facebook.
0:28.9	I made a light-hearted joke about wearing the same sweater every day of the week while working from home.
0:36.6	It was early in the pandemic's work from home days, and part of Emily's job as social media manager for the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
0:43.7	is to pull cool photos and documents from the archives to post online.
0:47.5	This one was an old-timey black and white picture of a guy in a fluffy white coat.
0:52.6	She called it unidentified male models for Parker.
0:56.9	He's got this really long beard and perfectly manicured hair.
1:02.3	Kind of like back, but with like a lot of volume.
1:04.6	Like, he is use of product.
1:05.8	That is so great.
1:06.8	And is he looking into the camera?
1:09.0	He's kind of gazing away.
1:10.7	Like, he knows something that we do not.
1:16.6	Emily had posted this picture many times before because it always got a killer response.
1:22.5	So we've had Instagram followers call him a mixologist.
1:26.9	They said they've seen this, this man at Burning Man on the streets of Brooklyn.
1:31.1	They've dropped fire emojis.
1:33.7	They called him Dreamy.
1:35.3	Oh, so he's hot.
1:36.9	He's hunky.
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