Ep. 107 - The Keepers

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Lighthouses have been around in one shape or another for thousands of years. Over the centuries, several lighthouses have been the locations of many great tragedies and great mysteries. Listen as I tell you about some of these tragedies, of the ghosts that allegedly haunt some of these lighthouses, and of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in history. Episode Sponsor: https://www.shudder.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast/posts Notes: https://thehaegtesse.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/the-smalls-lighthouse-incident/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw9x3/three-men-vanished-from-a-scottish-island-120-years-ago-and-people-are-still-looking http://weekinweird.com/2017/01/10/seguin-island/ https://www.nelights.com/blog/ghost-at-penfield-reef-lighthouse-still-rescues-mariners/ Music: Kevin MacLeod “Parting of the Ways, Part 2”, “Long Note One”, ”Long Note Two”, ”Long Note Three”, ”Long Note Four”, by Kevin MacLeod(https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Kai Engel, Mist and Clouds http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ Dexter Britain, The Tea Party http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.0	Tees and C's eligibility criteria and geographical restrictions apply. In Greek mythology there is probably no more popular character than that of Heracles,
0:39.8	a legendary son of Zeus and future star of his own Disney cartoon.
0:45.0	In fact, the legend of Heracles proved so popular that the Romans took his story
0:49.0	and co-opted it into their own mythology,
0:52.0	redubbing him with the name you're probably more familiar with.
0:55.8	Hercules.
0:58.7	One story Disney left out of their version, probably for the best, was the time when Hercules was driven mad by the
1:04.6	vengeful goddess Hera, causing him to murder his wife Megara and his three
1:09.1	children. The grief-stricken hero was later sent by King Eurystheus on a series of quest to atone for his sins that are known as the 12 labors of Hercules.
1:21.0	In truth, these labors all seem a tad less heroic when you consider they mostly involved
1:26.0	heading to some faraway land and stealing something from one of the gods.
1:31.2	On his tenth labor, Hercules was sent to a part of the world which we would know today as
1:35.2	Southwestern Spain.
1:38.2	There he was to steal the cattle from the monstrous King Garian, the grandson of Medusa and the nephew of Pegasus.
1:46.8	According to one version of events after obtaining the cattle and slaying
1:49.9	Kingarian, Hercules then ordered that the giant's head and weapons be buried on the site, and that a great city should be built to mark the location.
2:00.0	Today it's widely believed that the location described in the legend was the Spanish town of Carunya.
2:05.0	And it's there you can find a very real landmark known as the Tower of Hercules.
2:10.0	The Tower is the second tallest lighthouse in all of Spain, and the single oldest Roman
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