The Devil’s Hole Pupfish

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

There is a cave in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Devil's Hole. It's home to a small iridescent blue fish, called the Devil's Hole pupfish - and you can't find them anywhere else in the world. There are fences, cameras, and motion sensors for security. In 2016, three men rammed the fences and broke in. We need your help. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Did you know we have a shop on our website where you can buy things like t-shirts, water bottles, postcards - even baby onesies? And right now, we're having a summer sale. Go to thisiscriminal.com/shop and get 20% off your purchase. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for this show comes from Krakan.
0:03.0	Krypto is like the financial system, but different.
0:07.0	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,
0:11.0	or your outrageous food delivery habits.
0:13.7	crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.
0:18.4	Krakhan, see what crypto can be.
0:21.3	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:25.0	This is a high-risk investment and you should so it's essentially a collapsed cave or cavern.
0:44.0	And so when the ceiling fell in about 60,000 years ago,
0:49.0	it exposed the aquifer or the groundwater. so the spring doesn't actually flow out into a
0:56.8	stream it's just a body of water that you can see that has unknown depth.
1:04.0	Devil's Hole is in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
1:09.0	It isn't easy to get to or see.
1:11.0	It's surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire and their cameras everywhere.
1:18.4	In April of 2016 police were called to Devil's Hole with reports of an incident.
1:23.0	The Fems surrounding it had been breached, and when police arrived they found shotgun shells.
1:29.0	They immediately started collecting fingerprints and footprints.
1:33.9	But the victim in this case wasn't a human.
1:37.0	It was a tiny fish, a very special fish that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
1:43.0	The Devil's Whole pupfish.
1:45.0	The pupfish have large eyes and large heads.
1:51.0	Scientists in the 1950s name the fish for their playful behavior
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.