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The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 47 - The God Machine

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In 1853, a reverend named John Murray Spear attempted to do something shocking. He believed he was receiving messages from spirits beyond the grave, who gave him instructions on how to build a mechanical messiah... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0

They called 1816 the year without a summer.

0:35.0

It was a year when several climate anomalies collided with the eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies to create a long

0:44.3

period where the average global temperature decreased by nearly a full degree

0:48.8

Fahrenheit, causing major food shortages and other catastrophes throughout the northern hemisphere.

0:57.0

Crops failed as frost, persistent fog and cloud cover ravaged the land.

1:03.2

Famine broke out across Europe, resulting in riots, arson, and looting.

1:08.8

During the summer in Western Switzerland, an ice dam actually formed below the tongue of the Guietro Glacier.

1:16.3

Massive flooding occurred throughout China's Yang Sea Valley.

1:20.6

In India, torrential rain spurred on the spread of cholera.

1:24.9

In other words, it was a pretty lousy year to take a summer vacation.

1:29.6

But that's just what a pair of young lovers did. In 1814, the poet Percy Bish Shelley and his

1:36.4

18-year-old lover and later wife Mary Wolstoncraft Shelley set out on a whirlwind trip

1:42.0

across Europe.

1:44.0

In the summer of 1816, the couple stopped by to visit Lord Byron and his villain near Switzerland's Lake Geneva.

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