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Lost In The Woods Podcast

SOS in the Rocky Mountains

Lost In The Woods Podcast

lostinthewoods

True Crime

3.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On January 6, 1982, a passenger on a United flight would see flashing lights atop a mountain while flying over Colorado, and he would recognize the flashing lights as an SOS call for help. The stranded motorist was Alan Phillips but his fate that night would also become tangled with the mysterious disappearance and murder of Barbara Jo Oberholtzer, and Annette Schnee for more than forty years our links:  First Phorm link⭐️ https://1stphorm.com/?a_aid=marieschedler&a_bid=acc524e5&chan=Lostinthewoods https://open.spotify.com/show/4yFbZbdtAtCeKAsDlnAkew?si=WecC4XCUQb2c0pjIXjSCpw https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-in-the-woods-podcast/id1504163212 https://www.instagram.com/lostinthewoodspodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/lostinthewoodspodcast https://my-store-11745950.creator-spring.com/ https://linktr.ee/Lostinthewoodspodcast buy us coffee☕️ https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2323643837186048330&created=1633816408.531276&printed=1 http://paypal.me/lostinthewoodspod sources: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/26/colorado-police-murder-cold-case-alan-phillips https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/double-murder-mountain-rescue-connection/73-6a464873-84da-4c1f-a64e-41cbc2f98282 https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/08/Stranded-motorist-signals-SOS-to-airliner/6666379314000/ https://anatomyofmurder.com/murder-in-the-mountains/#1612317508408-294b2c78-4ab9 https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Orange-Sock-Murders-of-Bobbie-Jo-Oberholtzer-and-Annette-Schnee https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/video/on-the-case-with-paula-zahn-investigation-discovery-atve-us/rocky-mountain-mystery

Transcript

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:16.2

Hi, guys. I'm Marie.

0:17.5

And I'm Maddie.

0:18.2

And we are here recording Lost in the Woods.

0:20.9

Welcome, welcome. You probably And I'm Maddie. And we are here recording Lost in the Woods. Welcome, welcome.

0:21.6

You probably already knew that.

0:23.5

Yeah.

0:24.6

Because you clicked on it.

0:26.7

And pressed the button.

0:29.4

Today, we are going to talk about SOS in the Rocky Mountains, which is one of the craziest stories I've ever researched. On January 6th of

0:43.3

1982, Harold E. Bray, a passenger on a united flight flying over Colorado on its way to

0:50.7

California, would be looking out the window and would see flashing lights in the mountains.

0:57.6

And this was on Gwynola Pass.

1:00.3

He would see three short, three long, and three short.

1:04.3

Which is Morrist Code for the international SOS, or save our our ship or save our soul.

1:11.9

I think everyone knows what SOS means.

1:13.8

I would hope so.

1:14.9

Internationally used.

1:15.8

I would hope so.

1:16.8

Pretty sure that's a pretty.

1:17.4

But would most people know it in order to send it or know it when they saw it?

1:23.7

Harold was a Jefferson County Sheriff and he would recognize the pattern of the flashing lights as an SOS call for help.

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