Santa Claus Bank Robbery: Holiday Bonus
Re-Solved Mysteries: An Unsolved Mysteries Podcast
Alison Cunningham
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Bank_Robbery http://www.texasescapes.com/MaggieVanOstrand/The-Night-the-Posse-Chased-Santa.htm https://archive.org/stream/StartlingDetectiveMar1930#page/n13/mode/2up https://casefilepodcast.com/case-135-the-santa-claus-bank-robbery/ https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/santa-claus-bank-robbery https://www.newspapers.com/image/639001210 https://www.newspapers.com/image/639001227 https://www.newspapers.com/image/639001297/?terms=Marshall%20Ratliff&match=1 https://thetexan.news/the-santa-who-tried-to-steal-christmas-a-story-of-a-failed-texas-bank-robbery/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-santa-claus-bank-robbery-ac-greene-series-no-1_ac-greene/826499/item/42477122/?mkwid=%7cdc&pcrid=449000672318&pkw=&pmt=&slid=&plc=&pgrid=111228922064&ptaid=pla-927761182503&gclid=Cj0KCQiA2af-BRDzARIsAIVQUOf15o147bRc1J3l4d_3_b019WgdlhtnWRmQjSh5uqoMUNxcZKtwcdsaAqHTEALw_wcB#idiq=42477122&edition=43352318 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/609749/santa-claus-bank-robbery-1927
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is not for you. |
| 0:03.0 | If you don't like laughing, crying, or being horrified at the actions of other humans, |
| 0:08.0 | this podcast is not for you. Hello everybody happy holidays. This is a story that we actually had on |
| 0:38.0 | Patreon as part of our grab bag series but as a little holiday treat for, we are going to share it with you today. |
| 0:45.1 | So, Mary, Mary, we love you. Here you go. |
| 0:48.5 | All right, this is Grabbag Number Two. So this story is a Christmas story and we generally try to stay |
| 0:56.6 | non-denominational or just like non-religious around here. But don't worry, this story has nothing to do with Christian holidays and everything to do with about nine different types of crime. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. Oh my God, that's my kind of Christmas. |
| 1:12.0 | All right, so this story It's my kind of Christmas. |
| 1:20.0 | All right, so this story begins two days before Christmas in the town of Sisko, Texas in 1927. Whoa. |
| 1:21.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:22.0 | Taking it back. |
| 1:23.0 | Way back. |
| 1:24.0 | The time in place can be described as pre-depression oil boom Texas. |
| 1:30.0 | And the town of Siska was at the cutting edge of the oil boom. It was the afternoon of December 23rd and it's Texas so the weather was kind of like springtime. |
| 1:40.0 | So a lot of people were out on the streets bopping around shopping, you know, doing |
| 1:46.8 | last minute Christmas shopping, little kids were running around like looking in |
| 1:49.9 | the shop windows, and there's just like general holiday spirit in the air around 1245 a |
| 1:56.4 | Santa Claus and not just a Santa costume but a Santa mask. Oh no! |
| 2:04.0 | What did a Santa mask look like in 19- |
| 2:07.0 | I know I'm terrified because there are no pictures but I can picture how creepy. |
| 2:12.0 | I just picture the flash of another Santa on your flash. |
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