The Mystery of Little Miss 1565 - New England Legends Podcast

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's great, it's terrific, it's the best show on Earth...or it was supposed to be until tragedy struck. Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit Hartford, Connecticut, to see the memorial to the July 6, 1944 circus fire that claimed 167 lives and launched a 50-year mystery as to the identity of a young victim they called Little Miss 1565. This tragic story changed state laws and left a permanent scar on the state’s capital city. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-296-the-great-hartford-circus-fire-mystery/ Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends For more episodes join us here each Monday or visit their website to catch up on the hundreds of tales that legends are made of. https://ournewenglandlegends.com/category/podcasts/Follow Jeff Belanger here: https://jeffbelanger.com/ The Mystery of Little Miss 1565 - New England Legends Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Ray, when I was a kid growing up in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, I remember going to see a traveling circus that came through town.
0:11.6	Sure. I remember stuff like that coming through my town.
0:14.5	Sure. So the circus was so small that it was held in the parking lot of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Department.
0:20.7	That does sound like a small circus, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, there was a big top, a petting zoo area, some clowns, things like that. But I remember the animal show under the tent. At one point, they had a tiger that was going to jump through a hoop. And the ringmaster announced that Connecticut state law forbids the circus from having any
0:37.7	open flames under the tent.
0:39.4	So he asked us to imagine the hoop was on fire as the tiger jumps through.
0:44.1	Yeah, I can imagine that's not as exciting.
0:46.3	No, no, it wasn't.
0:47.2	But it turns out the ringmaster wasn't kidding about that Connecticut state law.
0:51.9	A law that was put in place after a horrible circus tragedy
0:55.1	left 167 people dead, including a young girl who would go on to start a mystery that lasted
1:01.4	half a century. Today we're heading to Hartford, Connecticut to explore the Great Circus Fire
1:07.5	mystery.
1:13.6	Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.
1:14.5	And I'm Ray Osier.
1:18.1	Welcome to episode 296 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:21.7	And thanks for joining us on our mission of Chronicle, Every Legend in New England,
1:22.6	one story at a time.
1:27.4	Most of our story leads come from you, so please reach out to us anytime through our website.
1:31.4	This week's episode deals with some tragic themes involving the death of children.
1:34.2	If you're sensitive to that, you may want to skip this one.
1:46.1	All right, Jeff, let's make our way to Hartford, Connecticut's capital city.
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