Swimming Hole: The man, the myth, the leap

Endless Thread

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4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this end-of-summer episode of Endless Thread, Ben and Amory take a leap of faith (or do they?) to the depths of an upstate New York swimming hole with a legend surrounding it that's almost as shadowy as exact it's location.

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Ben Brock Johnson. Mixing and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson are the co-hosts.

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0:00.0	WBUR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3.
0:15.1	Out now.
0:16.1	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.6	WBUR Podcasts.
0:22.4	Boston.
0:23.4	Amory, how many times have I told you this story?
0:32.0	Which one?
0:33.2	Zero?
0:35.2	You know it's about a swimming hole, right?
0:39.0	All I remember is that there's an old man who is like the troll of the hole.
0:48.5	Maybe you better start at the beginning.
1:00.1	So this is a story that is going to start way off the internet, like so far off the internet
1:05.4	that there's no cell service, okay?
1:08.8	And then it's a story that's going to go on to the internet.
1:12.6	And then it's a story that's going to go back off the internet.
1:15.8	But it really starts with this journey that I was taking.
1:19.5	I want to say more than ten years ago on a regular basis.
1:26.4	Over ten years ago I was living in New York City and I had friends who lived up in the
1:32.5	CatSkills in upstate New York.
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