Short Stuff: The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Ambrose Bierce was a journalist and writer of short stories. He also disappeared rather mysteriously. Listen in and learn of the various theories on what happened to him.

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0:34.4	Hey and welcome to the short stuff.
0:35.9	I'm Josh.
0:36.7	There's Chuck.
0:37.7	There's Jerry over there.
0:38.7	Everyone be quiet.
0:39.7	Let's get started.
0:41.1	Ambrose Beers goes missing.
0:43.4	This is a good one.
0:44.7	This is.
0:45.7	So Ambrose Beers was a writer and he's described in this article.
0:50.0	This is from the old friends at Howstuffworks.com.
0:53.1	Oh yeah, good plug.
0:54.8	They stuff some great, great short content out there that we can mind for these short stuff.
1:00.0	But he is described here as equal parts Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe.
1:04.0	That's pretty good.
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