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Unexplained

Season 08 Episode 13: The Tunnel Without End

Unexplained

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Science, Society & Culture, History

4.49.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was known to those who built it as the bloody pit owing to the 195 people that were killed during its construction.

Today the tunnel - once the longest rail tunnel in the United States - is no longer in use. But the stories, and perhaps a little more, still linger...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself,

0:33.1

how did we get here? Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

0:38.6

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examined an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

0:51.5

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1:01.1

Hello, it's Richard McLean, Smith here, not the imposter you've been listening to on the podcasts,

1:08.4

the real one. Join me for Unexplained TV at YouTube.com forward slash unexplained pod.

1:32.4

When we think of ghosts, we often think in terms of human drama.

1:39.7

We conceive of haunted places as theatres, sites of post-mortem performances that are no less recognisable for the fact that the players are dead.

1:44.0

And as with all performances, it's the drama

1:47.0

we tend to pay attention to, not the stage itself. Guilt and grief, anger and injustice,

1:55.5

longing and loss, these are the things that drive the spirits in our stories, but not everyone has conceived

2:03.8

of hauntings in this way.

2:06.5

Some think the staging matters a great deal.

2:10.5

Indeed, scientists and spiritualists alike have theorized that elements of our physical

2:15.9

world may not be merely the sight of haunting,

2:19.1

but both catalyst and cause. In 1837, Charles Babbage celebrated polymath and forefather of the

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