Ghost Blimp: The WW2 Airship That Returned Without A Crew | 243
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 1962 a thin wire cord snaps aboard an ocean liner and whips across the deck bisecting the passengers and crew. Fast forward 40 years and Julianna Margulies goes in to...wait, hold on. That's just the plot to the movie Ghost Ship. This week we look into a WW2 era ghost BLIMP. Where did the crew go? Was foul play afoot? Were ALIENS involved?!?! We ask those questions and some that are even less relevant as we investigate the mystery of the Ghost Blimp this week. Plus, Andy and Art from Mr. Bunker's Conspiracy Time Podcast join in on the shenanigans, the fellas discuss the pros and cons of eating at a Ponderosa, and John finally earns that "shill check" he's been working on. All of that and more on the podcast that’s never seen a blimp crash, but we watch a certain podcast do it on a weekly basis - Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Books & Papers
Blimp Info - https://www.blimpinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/The-Ghost-Blimp.pdf
Videos
USNI News Video: The U.S. Navy's Ghost Blimp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3_jZc3OhT0
L-8: Mystery of the "Ghost Blimp - https://youtu.be/dR7TyYOPmMg
San Francisco’s Mysterious Ghost Blimp of 1942 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md0x8rhK5jY
Websites
Unsolved Mysteries - https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Crew_of_the_L-8
HistoryNet - https://www.historynet.com/mystery-of-the-ghost-blimp.htm
Unsolved - https://unsolved.com/gallery/ghost-blimp/
L-Class Blimp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-class_blimp
Jalopnik - https://jalopnik.com/reddit-lays-70-year-old-unsolved-blimp-mystery-to-rest-883224308
Atlas Obscura - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1942-ghost-blimp-that-bewildered-a-california-town
/r/todatIlearned - https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ivkbk/til_on_august_16_1942_a_military_blimp_left_san/cb8fzv5/
And make sure to follow Mr. Bunker’s Conspiracy Time Podcast:
Listen: https://link.chtbl.com/mrbunkerspod
Website: https://www.mrbunkersconspiracytime.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrbunkerpod
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrbunkerpod/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | They say I'm disturbed. |
| 0:02.0 | From city to setting an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:05.0 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:08.0 | Will you totally fool us? I'm not traiting! |
| 0:11.0 | This is hysteria. |
| 0:12.0 | You can't handle the truth! |
| 0:15.0 | Brain has gone. |
| 0:17.0 | This is hysteria 51. |
| 0:21.0 | The truth is out there. |
| 0:24.0 | But you won't find it here. |
| 0:26.0 | They're coming for you. |
| 0:27.0 | Look, that comes one of them now. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome in, hysteria nation to the podcast that's never seen a blimp crash in real life. |
| 0:39.0 | But we watch a certain podcast do it on a weekly basis. |
| 0:43.0 | This is hysteria 51. |
| 0:46.0 | Robot. |
| 0:47.0 | He's already cutting you off, John. |
| 0:49.0 | He's already coming in early on, yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Though I have to admit that he kind of called out the podcast I was talking about. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway, we are broadcasting from the lower fourth dimension otherwise known as Chicago. |
| 1:00.0 | My name is John Goforth and alongside to investigate this mysterious disappearance is none other than Mr. Brent Han. |
| 1:07.0 | Thanks, John. |
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