This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

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

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

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

in Benton Harbor, Michigan, a religious colony called the House of David, did the same

for their leader. Here's our own Monty Montgomery

with the story of a robbery, a glass coffin, and a local legend. The year is 1927, the place,

Benton Harbor, Michigan. Home of the House of David, a religious colony led by Benjamin Pernow,

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

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

Here's Chris Seriano with what happened next.

He didn't teach ever that he was going to die.

So here he died.

And it was pandemonium.

It was mass chaos at the House of David.

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