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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Crack Master (GT Mini Fails)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

An animated short aired on Sesame Street in December 1975, then disappeared. The search to find the elusive cartoon, and why it only made a few appearances, gained a cult like following online. New YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/VbRZbtFEbF8 Support Ghost Town on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Follow Ghost Town on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/2YvBz2N Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A cartoon that slipped through the cracks. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton.

0:04.5

And this is Ghost Town. The crack just growled instead and made himself look very big and mean.

0:25.0

He said, I am crack master.

0:27.0

But just then the wall plaster began to crumble to the floor and where the monster stood were only beams of wood. He destroyed himself trying to. In 1975 a popular children's show known as Sesame Street. Oh.

0:43.9

had a cartoon animated short as part of it.

0:48.9

And Sesame Street was known for repeating the same content over and over.

0:54.3

Yeah, remember the crayon factory one?

0:56.2

You got to remember that.

0:58.0

But they go to a crayon factory and make crayons.

1:00.5

I don't remember that.

1:01.3

What?

1:01.7

I feel like I've seen that 400 times and I haven't watched

1:03.8

Sesame Street in like 30 years. So there's this one animated short, okay. That

1:19.7

disappeared. It was there and then it was gone. Nobody talked about it and then it became somewhat of a cult phenomenon on what it is and trying to find it.

1:31.4

What? Let's start from the beginning.

1:35.0

I'm going to tell me, I'm going to get you there, Rebecca.

1:37.0

Thank you.

1:38.0

Please. I have so many questions.

1:40.0

There was an animated short called Cr officially, unofficially, and it was the story of a girl,

1:49.1

and it was sung by a, you know, the voice over person, it was like a kind of a sing songy thing and it was about a girl who was just at home.

1:58.0

It was a rainy day, she couldn't go outside, so she looked up at the cracks in her wall.

2:03.0

This is, we're talking in 1975.

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