The Happy Hour Playset (GT Mini)

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey there I'm James host of Dakota Spotlight. We're back with a new season,
0:05.1	You Killed Chris, a Friends Fight for Justice. It's a chilling throwback in 1968.
0:10.8	A college freshman, Christine Rothschild, is murdered on campus during her morning walk.
0:15.0	Join us as we dive into this unsolved case and follow a friend's relentless pursuit of the truth
0:21.0	all the way from the flower power era to today.
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0:59.4	Bottles up. I'm Jason Horton I I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. In December of 2016, in the wake of another busy Christmas for consumers an ad for a Fisher-price toy titled the Fisher-price Happy Hour Playset hit the internet.
1:31.0	As you might imagine the plastic toy ad caused quite the internet. As you might imagine, the plastic toy ad caused quite the stir.
1:35.5	Outlets like the Chicago Tribune, CBS News, and BuzzFeed all picked up the story.
1:40.4	A suspicious toy featuring two children patronizing a bar and one child
1:45.6	acting as if they were a bartender. This supposed item for ages three and up says
1:52.4	that it includes a pretend bar, bar stools, and beer
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