*Sample* | The Balloon Boy Hoax | Relax & Sleep with History (Bonus Episode #72)
Calm History - Bedtime Sleep Stories for Education & Relaxation (By A Real Person; Not AI)
Harris | ASMR & Insomnia Network
4.4 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another bonus episode of Calm History, an extra treat for my Soak Plus members. |
| 0:08.0 | And this treat is a strange stew of several topics related to prior episodes. |
| 0:18.0 | Listen to this. |
| 0:20.0 | In Archive episode number 26, I covered some famous hoaxes about |
| 0:26.6 | the Lochness Monster. In archive episode number 31, I covered the history of flight |
| 0:33.6 | in floating balloons. And in archive episode number 33, I covered the history of |
| 0:41.8 | UFOs and flying saucers. So, what if I mixed together all of these topics and did an episode |
| 0:53.3 | about a famous hoax, which involves a large floating |
| 0:58.9 | balloon that is shaped like a flying saucer. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, that'd be total monkey madness. |
| 1:09.7 | Well, this episode is about a real hoax that involved a little boy and a large floating |
| 1:18.1 | balloon shaped like a flying saucer. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, total monkey madness. |
| 1:26.6 | Now, this hoax may sound familiar to you for one of two reasons. |
| 1:33.7 | You may have heard my whispered version of this true story, which I did in 2022 for my other |
| 1:42.5 | podcast, Sleep Whispers. |
| 1:45.7 | Or you may know about the new documentary on Netflix, titled Trainwreck, The Balloon Boy Hoax. |
| 1:56.6 | This bizarre hoax story even includes Storm chasers, the TV show Wife Swap, Black Hawk Helicopters, Dirty Rats, Retracted Confessions, A Nervous Fart, Vomit, and, and more vomit. |
| 2:19.7 | And I'll finish this episode by explaining an ironic twist about this whole story. |
| 2:28.5 | In the near future, I may stitch together this episode with bonus episode number 35 about the Phoenix 5 prank. |
| 2:39.8 | So you can relax with a one-hour silk plus bonus episode about famous pranks and hoaxes. |
| 2:50.6 | But for now, lean back, put up your feet, and settle into my time machine of tranquility. |
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