CLASSIC: The Windover Bog Bodies

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In 1982, in Titusville, Florida, construction worker Steve Vandejagt happened across a skull amid the muck and debris of the job site. And this was only the beginning of the mystery. Steve had accidentally uncovered one of the oldest gravesites in the United States, proof of an ancient, mysterious culture that existed more than 7,000 years ago. Join the guys as they dive into the story of the Windover Bog Bodies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this evening's classic episode.
0:03.7	Folks, have you ever been to a bog?
0:07.1	Matt, Noel, have you guys ever been to a bog?
0:09.3	A bog standard bog?
0:11.1	Not the bathroom.
0:12.2	No, no, the bio.
0:13.7	Ah, yes, of course.
0:14.8	No, I have not, but I am quite fond of bog men.
0:19.9	I found myself in a bog a couple of times.
0:23.8	Nice.
0:24.1	I don't make no never mind to me, Matt.
0:26.3	Shout out to our buddy West Givens in 1982, Titusville, Georgia.
0:32.1	Our story takes place.
0:34.0	A guy named Steve finds this skull amid the debris of a job site, and it turns out that he just may have discovered one of the oldest grave sites in all of the United States.
0:48.0	Whenever a homicide happens, two questions immediately come to mind. Who did this and why? And sometimes the answer to those
0:58.0	questions can be found in the where, where the crime happened. I'm journalist Sloan Glass, and I host
1:05.4	the new podcast, American Homicide. Each week, we'll explore some of this country's most infamous and mysterious
1:13.1	murders, and you'll learn how the location of the crime became a character in the story.
1:20.8	On American Homicide, we'll go coast to coast and visit places like the wide open New Mexico
1:27.0	desert, the swampy Louisiana
1:29.7	bayou, and the frozen Alaska wilderness. And we'll learn how each region of the country holds
1:37.4	deadly secrets. So join me, Sloan Glass, on the new True Crime podcast, American Homicide.
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