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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

[Mystery] The Ghost Blimp: L-8's Vanished Crew

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms got ya covered-feed

True Crime

4.6 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of August 16, 1942, a US Navy blimp lifted off from Treasure Island in San Francisco on a routine anti-submarine patrol. Hours later, it crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Daly City, California. But something was terribly wrong. The blimp's doors were open. Its equipment was untouched. The life raft was still secured. But the two crew members—Lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody and Ensign Charles Ellis Adams—had vanished without a trace.There was no distress call. No sign of a struggle. No blood. No bodies. Just an empty blimp drifting through the sky like a ghost ship. Eighty years later, the mystery of the L-8 blimp remains unsolved. What happened to the two Navy airmen? Did they fall out? Jump? Were they abducted? This episode explores one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in American military history. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday! Follow us on Instagram: @momsandmysteries Join our Patreon: patreon.com/momsandmysteries Visit our website: momsandmysteries.com #TrueCrime #Podcast #FloridaMoms #MysteryBlimp #L8Blimp #UnsolvedMystery #Navy #SanFrancisco #GhostShip Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On the morning of August 16, 1942, a U.S. Navy Blimp lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco,

0:06.7

on a routine patrol. Hours later, it crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Daly City,

0:12.1

but something was terribly wrong. The blimp's doors were open and its equipment had been

0:17.0

untouched, but its two crew members had just vanished without a trace. There was no

0:22.1

distress call and no sign of a struggle, just an empty blimp drifting through the sky like a ghost

0:27.4

ship. 80 years later, the mystery of the L8 remains unsolved.

0:37.2

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa.

0:45.4

Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. We are having a very exciting week here. How are you? We are. We had to like get into it, plan, record our Zoom just to

0:57.0

take notes for us. You know, very high level stuff around here. I will say Zoom AI note taking

1:04.6

is probably like going to save my life because I am so bad at remembering things that we talk

1:10.7

about in

1:10.9

conversation. So it's been, it's one form of AI that I fully support. It is for me. But one time

1:16.8

it got something so wrong, I was reading it and it was literally the exact opposite of what we said.

1:21.8

And I was so confused reading it. And I was like, this is, this is a problem. We can't go fully off of this AI. But yeah. Well, sometimes it really will almost like roast you. I remember one time, you know, because now we have the AI text on your phone. Oh, yeah, yeah. And there was one time I was asking you a simple question, if we could, had the money to afford something. And basically it was telling you that my message said are we poor

1:44.2

that's exactly what it said it just came up as a little thingy are we poor and I took a screenshot

1:48.5

and I'm like what is happening and the answer was yes yes we are speaking of not poor but

1:56.9

that's not a good segue Mandy Mandy, super exciting this week.

2:01.9

If you guys are listening, well, whatever you're listening.

2:05.1

Of course you're listening.

2:06.0

If you're listening, you're listening.

2:07.4

Right.

2:07.8

We have a new logo that we're so excited about after eight, almost eight years.

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