Bloody Island (Classic)
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Johanna. |
| 0:03.9 | Hi, Dylan. |
| 0:04.9 | So you're here to tell me some kind of story today, yeah? |
| 0:07.6 | I am. |
| 0:08.6 | So let's jump right in. |
| 0:10.6 | Okay. |
| 0:11.6 | At 6 a.m. on August 12th, 1817, two men stepped onto an island for a meeting. |
| 0:22.8 | And I should clarify, when I say island, it really means just a gigantic sand bar in the |
| 0:29.4 | middle of the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois. |
| 0:32.8 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:33.8 | And they were coming to this sand bar island for a... |
| 0:38.3 | By meeting, you mean a what? |
| 0:41.8 | I mean a duel, Dylan. |
| 0:43.6 | Ha ha ha. |
| 0:44.6 | Yes. |
| 0:45.6 | A duel to the death, which gave this sand bar its name, Bloody Island, after this. |
| 1:00.4 | Here to tell us about Bloody Island is our resident Missouri correspondent, Johanna |
| 1:12.0 | Mayor. |
| 1:13.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:14.0 | So you're from St. Louis? |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm from the area. |
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