Hey guys, welcome to episode 213 of the true crime couple. I'm Kay. And I'm John.

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John, are you ready to hear something crazy?

Of course.

Located on the Seward Peninsula, surrounded by the Norton Sound of the frigid and tumultuous

Bering Sea, sits the town of Nome, Alaska.

Its population now sits at around 3,500 residents, but at one point

it was seven times the size, and that was thanks to the Noam Gold Rush of 1899, that lasted a

solid 10 years. Unlike their predecessors in the California gold rush, the men and women that charged to

Alaska had an easier go of things, because the gold was found plentifully within the sand

surrounding the inlet of the Snake River. You could make good money, so many went. And not just to Nome, there was also the Klondike and

Fairbanks rushes as well. But let's stick with Nome. Although the discovery of gold was

easier in Alaska than in California, the effect on the areas were the same. Native Americans

were dramatically displaced, and the peaceful areas they

once called home bore witness to the overnight creation of boom towns. What's left of the last

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