S1 Ep46: The Cowboy in the Canteen
Astonishing Legends
Scott Philbrook
4.6 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Links:
Jim Harold’s Roadhouse Saloon Campfire STory
https://jimharold.com/the-roadhouse-saloon-from-the-files-of-jim-harolds-campfire/
The VFW
https://www.vfw.org/
Shell Shock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock
PTSD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_stress_disorder
PTSD as a Criteria for a Purple Heart
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/520197/purple-heart-criteria-exclude-ptsd-defense-officials-say
https://www.mghclaycenter.org/hot-topics/denying-purple-hearts-veterans-ptsd-2/
https://www.disabledveterans.org/purple-hearts-for-ptsd/
The ‘Seated Liberty’ Dollar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Liberty_dollar
Some for sale on Ebay
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=seated+liberty+dollars+1840-1873&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311
‘The Edge of Tomorrow’ movie which references Verdun as an Alien Battle Site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow
Unsolved Mysteries: Paranormal Rangers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22336540/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Astonishing Legends Network |
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| 0:16.5 | or any affiliated entities or guests. |
| 0:37.2 | Okay. any affiliated entities or guests. When something unexplainable happens to you, it can make you feel isolated or alone. |
| 0:43.3 | But trust us, you're not. |
| 0:46.3 | For over a decade, you've been sending your strange stories to astonishing legends. |
| 0:51.3 | And now it's time for our fellow legenders to hear them too. |
| 0:55.8 | Join us weekly in Blanket Fortiana as we dig through your intriguing messages to the |
| 1:00.4 | astonishing dead letter office. |
| 1:14.5 | Tonight's episode, The Cowboy in the Canteen. |
| 1:22.8 | Now this is a great dead letter, my friend. It reminds me of that story. It was one of the most chilling and fascinating stories that's ever appeared on Jim Harold's campfire. |
| 1:28.9 | We always talk about it. |
| 1:29.8 | Actually, so many people talk about it because it was so detailed. |
| 1:32.8 | And it was so cinematic in a way, but chilling. |
| 1:36.0 | And it's about that couple, I think it was after a concert, wandering into a bar. |
| 1:40.8 | And it was a roadhouse classic. |
| 1:43.0 | And the woman in the story needed to use the restroom. And I thought they'd take a break, it was long drive back late at night. And then they realize that they are slowly becoming part of a painting on the interior of the bar that's hanging on the wall behind it. Classic Rod Serling. It really is good. It's straight out of the Twilight Zone for sure. |
| 2:01.3 | It is one of the best campfires ever. But to your point, though, tonight's letter from listener |
| 2:06.3 | Brooke is similar but different as you're about to hear. It's about someone from a different |
| 2:11.2 | time and place finding a way to interact with what, at that time anyway, was the present day. |
| 2:17.2 | Exactly. It's a stranger who literally appeared out of nowhere with a request that he wanted |
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