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Our American Stories

The Man in the Glass Coffin

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is in a glass coffin...but so is an American man along the shores of Lake Michigan. Chris Siriano tells this curious story about the coffin, the man inside of it, and the harebrained scheme to steal his diamond necklace.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:45.0

Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is our American stories.

0:47.8

And up next, a story you won't forget.

0:50.8

In 1924, when Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died, the Soviets preserved his body by placing

0:57.8

him in a hermetically sealed glass coffin. Lesser known, though, is that around the same time

1:04.3

in Benton Harbor, Michigan, a religious colony called the House of David David did the same for their leader.

1:11.6

Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story of a robbery, a glass coffin, and a local legend.

1:19.6

The year is 1927, the place, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

1:24.6

Home of the House of David, a religious colony led by Benjamin Pernow,

1:29.4

who preached that if you followed his message and gave all your worldly possessions to him,

1:34.3

you would never die. Unfortunately for Ben, though, he contracted tuberculosis, which he died from.

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