Thinking Sideways: Pont Saint Esprit poisoning

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 11 August 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In an incident suspiciously similar to the Ken McElroy episode--except that there was no bullying redneck, no pickup truck and no gunfire--hundreds of residents of Pont St. Esprit in France found themselves hallucinating wildly. 7 died and many were institutionalized, and speculation is that it could have been ergot poisoning... or a CIA plot.

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0:00.0	Thinking sideways is not supported by reusing all those AOL discs.
0:04.6	Instead, it's supported by the generous donations of our listeners on Patreon.
0:08.3	Visit patreon.com slash thinking sideways to learn more.
0:11.5	And thanks.
0:15.5	Thinking sideways.
0:17.7	I don't understand that.
0:19.3	I don't know how to go to.
0:21.4	You never know.
0:22.9	Keep the picture face of the phone you made just fine.
0:25.5	What?
0:26.6	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:32.4	Well, hey there.
0:33.1	Welcome to another episode of Thinking sideways.
0:35.7	I'm Joe.
0:36.9	Join us always by...
0:38.2	Devon.
0:38.9	And Steve.
0:40.4	Yeah.
0:41.1	So we're going to solve a really grubby mystery.
0:44.3	Oh, and by the way, this is part of our summer series.
0:47.6	So in order to free up some of your precious time,
0:50.1	we've started to be decided to drop a series of episodes here kind of shorter.
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