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In 1946, the U.S. Navy embarked on a mission to the most desolate place in the world, Antarctica.

The excursion was short-lived, unorganized, and random. It prompted more questions than answers.

Officials claimed it was to gather geographical data,

but the world speculated the motives were much more sinister.

Today, we're investigating Operation High Jump.

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Music This is Red Web. Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast Trevor Collins and joining me hearing about

this case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz. You gotta love something that's up in Antarctica.

You know, one of the last few explored, heavily explored places for all of mankind.

Mm-hmm.

And suddenly I'm thinking about a horror movie like the thing yes always yeah it's not an easy

place to go and visit and travel and and do anything with so you really have to be prepared and

it's quite interesting that even the navy had issues you know oh yeah oh yeah let alone some

kind of private expedition or something right it. It's so remote. It's so

harsh. I mean, there are people at scientific bases down there now that documented every now and then, you know, they might be on TikTok or whatever. And it's to the point where there are times where you step outside and you can't be outside for more than maybe 30 seconds.

You will start to freeze anything that's exposed during the harsh winter, which is actually

during our summer. So like right now, it gets pretty gnarly. And I think as far as travel goes,

it is very hard to get there because a lot of it is locked behind like a, you need to be on

some sort of scientific endeavor that

needs to be greenlit. It is, there is a treaty. We'll talk about the Antarctic treaty as part of

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