The Séances

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In 1916, two British soldiers were held captive in a remote prisoner-of-war camp. People said the camp was escape-proof. One day, one of the soldiers received a postcard from his aunt in England, suggesting they try experimenting with a Ouija board. When reports of ghosts started circulating around the camp, the two soldiers had an idea. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from Krakan.
0:03.0	Krypto is like the financial system, but different.
0:07.0	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,
0:11.0	or your outrageous food delivery habits.
0:13.7	crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.
0:18.4	Krakhan, see what crypto can be.
0:21.3	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:25.0	This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Thank you very much for doing this.
0:34.0	Oh, my pleasure. Thank you so much for thinking of me.
0:38.0	Margalit Fox is a writer.
0:41.0	For many years, she wrote obituaries for the New York Times. You know that
0:46.2	we're not live and so if I get anything wrong or you want to take anything again feel free to let me know.
0:54.0	Wonderful.
0:55.0	It means I can swear if need be.
0:57.0	Well, you can do that and we won't even cut it out.
1:00.0	You know, that's a great thing.
1:01.0	That's true.
1:02.0	It's not, it's not FCC. That's right. We can do whatever we want.
1:05.8	Although swearing isn't really that germane to this story. Well who knows what they were saying to each other.
1:12.1	I mean, any two guys could have sworn, what have we gotten ourselves into?
1:16.3	It sounds like these two could have.
1:18.6	In 1915, two British men, Elias Henry Jones or Harry Jones and Cedric Waters Hill
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