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Unexplained

S03 Episode 9: Come Talk to Me

Unexplained

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Society & Culture, History

4.49.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1958 in Mölnbo, Sweden, EVP pioneer Friedrich Jürgenson was attempting to record the sound of birdsong in his garden. What he captured instead would change his life forever.
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0:52.1

Much less that the dead could talk

0:55.3

He did not follow any religion or pin his mask to any one political party

1:01.3

And neither did he believe in an interventionist god

1:05.5

He had seen too much for that

1:09.9

Jürgensen was born in Odessa in February 1903

1:15.1

Then a major city of the Russian Empire and soon to be cradle of revolution

1:21.3

Though his family lived a relatively charmed life by comparison to many of its citizens

1:27.3

His formative years were nonetheless surrounded by misery as he once put it and it certainly wasn't lacking in drama

1:37.6

By the time he was 40 years old

1:40.4

Jürgensen will have fled from Bolshevik revolutionaries to Estonia

1:45.3

Before later moving to Berlin to train as an opera singer under the great Italian tenor Tito Schieber

1:54.2

After a period of almost unrivaled sexual and creative freedom in the city

1:59.5

He will later watch in horror as a new puritanism takes hold

2:05.1

While those not blessed with the privilege of being able to work in the arts

2:09.8

Struggling under crippling poverty and unemployment

2:13.3

A drawn ever closer to the rising tide of fascism

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