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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Cardiff Giant Re-Listen

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. In this installment we hear a listener’s tale of a theological dispute that became a real money-maker known to some as “Old Hoaxy.” READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cardiff-giant

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Dylan here again.

0:06.4

This week we are taking a week of vacation because it is summer.

0:11.3

And so we're playing you summer themed episodes from our archives, but we also hope that these

0:15.1

inspire you to share some of your best summer travel stories.

0:19.0

Let us know about your crazy road trip disasters, about your best places.

0:23.3

You ever stumbled upon about that weird person you met on that trip.

0:28.0

You know.

0:29.4

To do that, leave us a voicemail at 315-992-7902.

0:34.5

It'll cut you off after about three minutes, but you can also send us a voicemail of any length,

0:39.4

well not any length, like a reasonable length, I don't know, 20 minutes, whatever,

0:42.8

to helloatallosubscrierah.com.

0:45.9

We cannot wait to hear your stories.

0:48.1

And this story that you're about to hear came to us from a listener last summer onto the episode.

0:59.6

Today, I wanted to share a voicemail that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, a really

1:06.2

giant rabbit hole.

1:10.2

Hi, this is Sean Small.

1:12.6

I remember this story because I'm up in the middle of nowhere Iowa where I was raised as a kid.

1:19.8

And I was about three or four years old when my dad took me to the Fort Dodge Museum.

1:28.7

The Fort Dodge Museum was a recreation of a Civil War era fort in kind of north

1:36.5

central Iowa. He was very excited about bringing me to this museum and it had a few old cabins

1:45.1

and old-school house and old church. I don't remember much until my dad took me to the very back

1:51.1

of the fort. And then the very back of the fort kind of right outside of the walls,

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