Horror in the Jungle: Crossing the Darién Gap, Chapter One

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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If you look at a world map, you'll see one tiny stretch of land connecting South, Central, and North America. As the only break in the great Pan-American Highway, the Darién Gap has long been one of the world's most inhospitable places. It's rife with crime, disease, and danger. Yet, in current decades, this single geographic chokepoint has evolved into what some describe as a migration 'superhighway' -- every year, thousands upon thousands of innocent people risk their lives traversing this lawless land on foot, hoping against hope for a better life in the north. In the first chapter of this special two-part series, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the history of the infamous Darién Gap.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.1	A production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:25.9	My name is Matt.
0:26.6	My name is Noel.
0:27.8	They call me Ben.
0:29.0	We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:33.6	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:36.4	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:40.8	Guys, I was thinking today we start with the idea of a journey. So if any of us are comfortable
0:47.1	answering, what's the strangest, most dangerous trip you've taken? I don't think I've taken anything
0:53.0	currently that I would consider super strange or dangerous,
0:56.4	but I've got one coming up going to the Middle East for the first time of my life.
0:59.7	That would definitely be the most far afield location with kind of a culture that I'm very,
1:04.9	very much inexperienced with.
1:06.9	So that will probably be it.
1:09.2	I had a little bit of a weird thing when exploring the,
1:13.3	uh, the west of the United States where it's a little less hospitable than a lot of
1:19.0	other places just out there by the, uh, that we visited out by the big old dam.
1:23.9	Oh yeah.
1:25.6	I've been out there before and just exploring on your own can be hazardous to your
1:31.1	health. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. The wild is alive and human beings are passengers in the wild of the
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