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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Bermeja Island

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the 16th century, Spanish cartographers mapped an islet off the Yucatan peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. However, in a 1997 survey, the island had disappeared. Were the Spanish wrong? Or did the USA blow up the island for personal gain?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thinking sideways is not brought to you by a fish wearing a toupee.

0:04.3

Instead, it's supported by the generous donations of our listeners on Patreon.

0:09.7

Visit patreon.com slash thinking sideways to learn more.

0:13.6

And thanks!

0:17.1

Thinking sideways.

0:19.3

I don't understand.

0:20.9

Don't let go of here.

0:22.7

You never know.

0:24.3

Keep the biggest dates of the Commission, you know, the smile.

0:27.0

What?

0:28.2

Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

0:33.8

Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Thinking sideways, the podcast.

0:38.4

I am Devon joined as usual by Joe and Steve and not to belabor point, but this is going

0:47.9

to be the second episode in what we're calling our summer series.

0:51.6

Briefly, if you have been listening to the show for a while, you know that we have put

0:56.4

out an episode at least once a week, every week for three years, and we're tired.

1:01.9

So instead of doing like a summer break, like some podcasts do, we're just doing a series

1:10.5

of shorts.

1:11.9

And that will allow us to take some much needed recuperation time, but also, you know,

1:17.2

we can start working on some of these bigger shows that we've been trying to work on, that

1:21.7

we're apparently promising to you guys at the trade-off for this.

1:25.9

I'll say it'll be doing reruns.

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