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Stuff You Missed in History Class

SYMHC Classics: Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This 2017 episode examines how, after a traumatic event, strange things began happening around Esther Cox. In the 1870s, Amherst, Nova Scotia was abuzz with theories as to whether the phenomena were the work of a poltergeist, strange electrical charges, or a hoax.

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

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0:28.2

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0:33.3

Happy Saturday everybody.

0:34.9

Since today is the last Saturday before Halloween, we have a particularly Halloweeny episode

0:40.4

for today's Saturday Classic.

0:42.5

It is our episode on Esther Cox and the great Amherst Mystery, which originally came out

0:47.5

October 23rd, 2017.

0:50.4

So early on in this episode, I say that Esther's mother died just a few weeks before she

0:56.6

was born.

0:58.7

And no, that was not a bizarre medical or maybe supernatural occurrence that we just dropped

1:04.4

into the show and then offered no further comment on instead going on to talk at length about

1:10.2

how much premature babies weigh when they're 9 months old.

1:13.6

I just misspoke.

1:15.8

And even though 3 people listened to this episode before it published, none of us noticed it.

1:21.4

Esther's mother died a few weeks after she was born.

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