BELIEVE IT OR NOT: 11 CRAZY TALES AND SHORT HISTORIES
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Our stories today: 1), Larry the Lawn Chair Pilot- who actually followed his dream up past the clouds and into LAX airspace while sitting in a lawn chair powered by 43 helium balloons; 2) Miracle in Rio- A blind boy is struck by a bullet during a new year's celebration and wakes up in the hospital to some good news; 3) A Disaster Foretold;- some Titanic stories 4) Ritchie Ashburn's Human Target- its my favorite baseball story; 5. They'll Never Take Me Alive- the story of Elmer McCurdy's busy afterlife; 6) Joshua L. Cowen's Invention, besides lighted flower pots; 7) Mary Edwards Walker- the only woman to win a Medal of Honor, 8) The Blood Amethyst- The London Museum keeps this one under lock and key,9) A Letter to Henry Ford (from Clyde Barrow) 10) The Carpet Caper- three college kids see a rolled up, carpet lying on a sidewalk and decide to take it back to their apartment 11) The English Professor- An English professor assigns a special online project to two students- their simple goal is to collaborate on writing a story.
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| 0:00.0 | . |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back everyone to one thousand one heroes legends histories and mysteries |
| 0:36.1 | podcast. This is your host John Haggadorn. As a history buff I'm constantly |
| 0:41.5 | coming across stories that are interesting but too short to make a full |
| 0:44.6 | episode. So I'm dedicating this episode to a collection of shorter stories. I |
| 0:48.9 | think you'll enjoy listening to and even retelling some of these stories that |
| 0:53.2 | picked out. If you enjoy this believe it or not episode let us know in a |
| 0:57.7 | review to one thousand one heroes and we'll do more of them just as we've done |
| 1:01.6 | the past with eleven of our urban legends episodes. Our first story is called |
| 1:06.5 | the Lawn Chair Larry Flight and this is believe it or not a true story. In 1982 |
| 1:13.8 | a truck driver from Los Angeles named Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in |
| 1:18.2 | a homemade flying device comprised of a patio chair and 45 helium balloons. |
| 1:24.0 | Soaring into the sky had been a 20-year dream for him ever since he was 13 |
| 1:28.7 | years old and had spotted a weather balloon in an Army Navy surplus store. Fast |
| 1:33.8 | forward to 1982 when dreams were about to become a reality with a little make |
| 1:38.9 | that a lot of help from his friends. He had been chewing the fat with some |
| 1:43.1 | friends at a local bar speculating how many balloons it would take to lift |
| 1:46.2 | a man into the sky. Flying was the long-held dream of his. The Air Force had |
| 1:51.3 | turned him down due to poor eyesight and now he said was his chance. For most |
| 1:56.6 | of us the story would end with a clink of beer glasses and some reasonable |
| 1:59.8 | thinking once our heads cleared. But Larry started looking for balloons and found |
| 2:04.4 | that what he needed was the kind that scientists launched into the atmosphere |
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