The Strange Disappearance of Professor King
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 364 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head back to the year 1873 to attend the county fair in Hyde Park, Vermont. The guys witness the launch of Professor Frank King in his hot air balloon. King was in the air about an hour before the spectators lost sight of him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hyde Park, Vermont is picture perfect small town New England, Jeff. |
| 0:06.7 | It definitely is, Ray. |
| 0:08.5 | And we're pretty far up north here in Vermont, just about 30 miles south of the Canadian |
| 0:12.4 | border. There's some rolling |
| 0:13.7 | hills in the distance and we're coming up on well it looks like fairgrounds. |
| 0:18.6 | Yep that's our destination. Wret you can pull in right up here. Got it. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm going to. |
| 0:25.0 | I can see some barn-like buildings, a concession stand, a gazebo, plenty of wide open fields, some |
| 0:37.0 | fenced in areas for animals, though there's no animals here today. |
| 0:40.3 | I mean it looks like a big fairground. |
| 0:42.3 | It is. It's a place to gather and see the local spectacles. It's also a place where something significant happened at one of the most famous county fairs in this region. We've come to Hyde Park, Vermont to search for a missing hot air balloon. |
| 1:00.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger. And I'm Ray Ozier. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to episode 364 of the New England Legends Podcast. |
| 1:06.6 | Thanks for joining us as we search for ghost, monsters, UFOs, roadside oddities, true crimes, |
| 1:12.2 | and weird history in the Northeastern United States. |
| 1:15.1 | Be sure to visit our website to contact us with your story ideas and to see Jeff's dates |
| 1:19.8 | for his fall tour and to see my band the pup kings. |
| 1:22.8 | We'll go looking for the missing hot air balloon right after this word from our sponsor. |
| 1:28.4 | Hot air balloons are big things Jeff. They are. I feel like it'd be tough to lose one. Yeah, it would. So here's a little more background on Hyde Park. The town got its charter back in 1781, and it's the county seed for Lamoille County. The town's population today is about 3,000 people |
| 1:44.0 | it's a quiet area with plenty of farms. |
| 1:46.0 | So events like the county fair would be a big deal. |
| 1:49.0 | I can imagine it be an event |
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