Bloody Island

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This island between Missouri and Illinois was a preferred meeting place for duels to the death in the early 1900’s.

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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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