Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world. These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark, and so many other famous and not so famous adventures from throughout history.

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The Civil War and Reconstruction was a pivotal era in American history.

When a war was fought to save the Union and to free the slaves.

And when the work to rebuild the nation after that war was over,

turned into a struggle to guarantee liberty and justice for all Americans.

I'm Tracy.

And I'm Rich.

And we want to invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at this pivotal era in American history.

Look for the Civil War and Reconstruction wherever you find your podcasts.

In November 2016, a U.S. diplomat and his wife were living in an upscale apartment complex in Havana, Cuba, called L. Country Club.

The couple had only been living there a few months, ever since the American Embassy reopened in 2015.

One night after the diplomat and his wife were having dinner with some neighbors,

when the man suddenly looked up from his dinner plate,

looked around and said, hey, does anybody else hear that? What he was hearing was a strange

sort of chirping noise. He said it sounded sort of like the buzzing of cicadas, only louder

and a lot more mechanical. The noise didn't stop either. From that point on, the diplomat

claimed to keep hearing it constantly

for the next three months. Even stranger still, as the noise continued, both the diplomat and his

wife became sick. Both of them had excruciating headaches. The man whose name remains classified

said that as the days were on, it became difficult for him to think straight.

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