The Abduction

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 1976, a quartet of campers in the Maine wilderness would have an experience that would transform them into the Allagash Four--known in UFO circles as some of the most famous “alien abductees’ of all time. But when one of the men’s stories ran counter to the others, well--then things got a little more complicated.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:10.0	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. Today we're on a trip to the land of moose and lobsters and blueberries.
0:30.0	We're taking you back to the state with the fewest syllables, the place where our first
0:35.2	episode began. Yes, welcome back strangers to Maine. This time we're
0:42.1	visiting a northern corner of the state, basically Canada, give or take a Tim Horton or two,
0:49.0	and today we're specifically concerned with an area around the Alagash River and the vast wilderness it runs through.
0:56.8	According to the Bangor Daily News, many have used this river as a means for some serious canoe-based
1:03.9	camping trips. And we can't say that we at one strange thing are big on that concept, to be honest.
1:11.5	But if you must absolutely subject yourself to such a thing, the Alagash seems like a great
1:17.9	place to do it.
1:19.9	Certainly picturesque and none of that whitewater rapids we hope you like almost drowning
1:25.1	nonsense.
1:26.5	Out on the Alagash, it's just you, your companions, the water, and whatever else might be
1:32.5	enjoying the scenery with you.
1:35.3	We assume that whatever else wasn't much of a concern for the four men who set out on a canoe
1:41.5	trip on the Alagash waterway on August 20, 1976.
1:47.4	After all, twin brothers, Jack and Jim Weiner, Charlie Fultz, and Chuck Rack were all friends,
1:54.8	attending art school in Boston. They were likely looking for an escape from city life
2:00.1	at the start of the fall semester.
2:03.2	What we know now of how their trip transpired is largely thanks to later articles and documentaries
2:11.1	and a 1993 book by one Raymond Fowler, which was called The Alagash Abductions. It's a scintillating title
2:21.3	we know. We'll get back to that in a minute. But anyway, our story begins like this. On August 20th,
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