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🗓️ 26 September 2025
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The largest ever kidnapping case in the United States went down in the small town of Chowchilla, CA. Learn all about it today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Back in 1976 in Chow Chila, a little town smack dab in the middle of California, |
| 0:11.1 | a school bus with 26 children aboard was hijacked, and the kids were held for ransom by men looking to make easy money. |
| 0:18.6 | But man, was this anything but easy for everyone involved? What makes |
| 0:22.5 | this case so famous, in addition to, you know, the kidnapping of 26 children on their way home |
| 0:27.8 | from school, is that the kids and the bus driver were buried alive while the kidnappers waited |
| 0:32.5 | for the ransom. Why don't you join them by listening to this episode? |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:52.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's here. |
| 0:59.4 | And this is stuff you should know. |
| 1:03.0 | You know what I've been singing for two days? |
| 1:04.8 | Wheels on the bus go round and round. |
| 1:07.2 | No, that's a pretty good guess, though. |
| 1:07.4 | What? |
| 1:11.3 | Don-no-da-da-do-da-do-do-da-do-do-no chow-chilla. |
| 1:14.7 | I can't get it out of my head. |
| 1:18.3 | The Godzilla song, now all I'm saying over and over is chow chila. |
| 1:19.4 | That's a great song. |
| 1:20.6 | Do you remember who played it? |
| 1:25.3 | Was that like Edgar Winner or Johnny Winter? |
| 1:27.4 | I don't know. I think it's one of the winners. |
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