Hey everybody, so Alice Obscura is coming out with a new book, and it is co-authored

by me, me and Cessli Wong have put out a book called Gastro Obscura, a Food Adventurers

Guide.

And it's about the world's most interesting recipes, ingredients, restaurants.

It is this mouthwatering journey all over the entire globe.

So if you enjoy this podcast, I think you will love this book.

I would love for you to own it, and pre-orders really help it succeed in the world.

So check out the link in our show notes, and hopefully you will be as excited about it

as I am, under the show.

It was summertime in 1974 in Hot Spring, South Dakota, and a construction worker was tearing

into the earth with his bulldozer.

His name was George Hanson, and his job for the day was to level a hill, which once George

was done with it would become the flat foundation for a new Hot Springs housing development.

But then the blade hit something, something hard and gleaming, and seven feet long.

And even though it had been split in half, George could tell that this thing was a task.

Well George didn't know yet, was that it was much more than a task.

It was the first piece of a strange scientific puzzle.

It was a clue in an ancient murder mystery, and it was the start of a nearly 50 year excavation.

I'm Dylan Therese, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

and wondrous places.

Today, we'll head out to the Hot Springs mammoth site to sift through the dirt and the

stories trapped beneath it.

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