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Episode 155 - 'Repent or Die': Panama's Jungle Death Cult

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Following reports of strange riutals and bizarre religious ceremonies, in January 2020 Panamanian police headed into the country's remote jungle. What they found in a makeshift church, in the isolated indigenous village of Alto Terrón was something straight out of a 70s exploitation horror movie...




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0:00.0

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0:17.0

I'm Sruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to your Redhanded. I've got nothing to say today.

0:23.6

Voting's closed now. Oh yeah!

0:26.5

Act, will we know by the time? No, we won't.

0:28.7

It's Saturday. It's Saturday before. Is it? I don't know.

0:32.5

Maybe. Maybe we know. No, no. It's the first day before the actual. So we won't know.

0:36.8

We won't know. But we've been sent boxes of things in the past.

0:40.1

Oh yeah, I just opened mine just now.

0:43.0

So it's all like party materials. It's like a streamer and party hats,

0:47.0

bunting, whatever, that'll say British podcasts, wards on them.

0:49.4

And then also the little like,

0:52.1

things that you have at parties. I have asked 17 people.

0:55.2

Nobody knows what they're called. What's the word for them?

0:57.8

You know, the things that the little like tongue thing comes out and you look at it.

1:01.0

I don't know. Exactly. Nobody knows.

1:04.0

Nobody knows what the actual name is.

1:06.2

It's just lost knowledge. One of those things.

1:09.1

Because you don't buy them individually. Do you just say,

1:10.8

oh, those those things that come with the balloons like party blowers. That's the thing.

1:14.6

But yeah, so we don't know. Maybe we do know. I don't know at this point that we are currently recording it.

1:19.1

But thank you to all of those who voted regardless of what happened.

1:22.3

We will fill you in possibly next week.

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