The Grave of Miss Baker
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Dylan. |
| 0:02.9 | So one of the really amazing things about Atlas Obscura is the incredible team of writers |
| 0:09.2 | and editors and just all of the people who bring Atlas to life. |
| 0:13.7 | So we want to bring that neighborhood of incredible, beautiful creative minds right here into |
| 0:20.2 | this podcast space. |
| 0:21.9 | So today, I'll be joining Atlas reporter Annie Ubank, who's bringing us an amazing story |
| 0:28.7 | of a forgotten American hero. |
| 0:31.5 | I can't wait. |
| 0:34.1 | So imagine it's a sunny Florida day and you are an employee at this Miami pet shop, |
| 0:42.2 | you know, like I don't know, feeding the parents and, you know, giving carrots to the guinea pigs. |
| 0:48.8 | And suddenly like a car pulls up outside and, you know, a federal employee comes in maybe |
| 0:55.0 | with like a suit and like a badge and says, give me every monkey you've got 26 squirrel monkeys. |
| 1:03.9 | And I can't even imagine what the ride back to the naval base was like with a car full |
| 1:08.7 | of 26 tiny monkeys, but that is the beginning of this story about one of those monkeys. |
| 1:15.2 | And her name was Miss Baker. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm Annie Ubank. |
| 1:24.2 | This is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. |
| 1:30.2 | Today, we're stopping by the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama to pay our respects |
| 1:36.4 | to the first lady of space, an early American astronaut who was almost forgotten, but whose |
| 1:41.6 | real fans still know where to find her. |
| 1:45.0 | The incredible story of a monkey named Miss Baker, after this. |
| 2:07.0 | Okay, so what was the plan, what were they going to do with these 26 tiny cute monkeys? |
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