How many eyewitnesses does it take to corroborate a story?

When an event transpires that is singularly conspicuous but is somehow still shrouded in mystery,

how can we trust our own understanding of what is possible?

Our watery and uncertain relationship with reality seems to loom like, well, like a hovering

blimp.

Welcome to Strangin unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

I'm a writer and an actor who would like to go up and away in a beautiful balloon, but

short of that would accept a pleasurable, dirigible ride, providing nothing disastrous

and life-threatening word to happen.

Right.

This week, we'll stow away on a naval airship in order to try to figure out what happened

to two officers aboard the ill-fated Ghost Blimp.

In the summer of 1942, the United States was in its ninth month at war with Japan.

The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, a military base in Hawaii in December of 1941, which

was the catalyst that brought the United States into World War II.

Up until that point, we had watched from the sidelines while the world's nations seemed

to go crazy on each other.

Again.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese kept up their offensive on the West Coast

of the United States, sinking at least six Allied ships and bombing an oil drilling facility

in California, marking the first attack on U.S. mainland soil since the British bomb New

Orleans in 1812.

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