Airship's Crew Mysteriously Disappeared Mid-Flight | Ghost Blimp

Red Web

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

During WWII, a US Navy blimp descended over the San Francisco area with two crew members aboard. Though they were present at the time of takeoff, upon touch down, the crew was nowhere to be found. Today, we dive into the story behind one of the most peculiar disappearances in recent history: the L-8 Ghost Blimp. Visit our Twitter page (https://twitter.com/RedWebPod) to see the images we mention. If you’d like to listen to past mysteries we discuss in this episode, they are: Escape From Alcatraz (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1VYopYHr3MF1rdxBfm3vK8?si=a142a015c27945ff), and Barney and Betty Hill (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6uHDlCGh0GD28sQr0A7Eye?si=b7290e0fb3f44b13). Download the public audio version https://link.chtbl.com/redwebpod. Already a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: http://bit.ly/FIRSTRSS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Ruestur-Tieth production.
0:14.0	During World War II, a US Navy blimp descended over the San Francisco area with two crew members aboard.
0:21.0	Though they were present at the time of takeoff upon touchdown, the crew was nowhere to be found.
0:26.0	Today we dive into the story of one of the most peculiar disappearances in recent history, the L8 Ghost Blimp.
0:33.0	This is Redweb.
0:43.0	It's a Monday, and you know what that means.
0:45.0	It's time for another mystery, welcome back task force to Redweb, the show all about the unsolved mysteries of our world from the internet to the real world, cryptid aliens,
0:54.0	and all sorts of conspiracies in between.
0:56.0	We finally cracked into a conspiracy.
0:58.0	Recently, with the Titanic, I'm your host Trevor Collins bringing you the juice, and with me as always reacting for the very first time drinking that juice of knowledge, Alfredo Diaz.
1:08.0	I've got an empty sippy cup just waiting to be filled with knowledge.
1:13.0	I've got a stuffed with knowledge.
1:15.0	Just a sponge soulful for you.
1:16.0	Yes, so full for you.
1:18.0	Fill it so full for me.
1:20.0	There's going to be a lot in this one.
1:22.0	As you know, you're a San Francisco local.
1:24.0	We're going to be dancing all around San Francisco today.
1:27.0	Yeah, born and raised in San Francisco.
1:29.0	Not too proud of it though, because you moved to Austin.
1:31.0	I say this knowing that this Austin was the only thing that pulled you away.
1:40.0	Otherwise you die.
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