WTF Happened to Operation High Jump?

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Antarctica, 1946: The US Navy shows up, gets in a fight and loses badly. But who kicked their butts? The KGB had a theory that'll knock your socks off.

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0:00.0	Hey Joe. What? How's this first story? After the collapse of the Soviet Union,
0:12.6	an intrepid researcher uncover Soviet intelligence. This document, this dossier, says that
0:18.3	just after World War II, something no one knows what was happening in
0:23.2	the Antarctic.
0:24.5	And the good old Department of Defense, they got spooked, so they took a big chunk of the Pacific
0:29.1	fleet, armed them to the teeth, and just sent him down south.
0:32.3	When they got there, it wasn't a secret Nazi base that awaited the flotilla.
0:39.0	It was freaking aliens.
0:45.2	Whoa. This scored in the Russians. That is what the KGB said. Whoa, I like it. Now that sounds like some BS, right? A little bit, yeah. It is a pretty loopy story. But when you kind of dig into it,
0:51.4	some of it actually checks out. And it kind of makes you wonder what's really out there in all that ice and snow.
0:57.1	Ah, yeah, I wonder that myself, to be honest.
1:10.2	Featuring Joe Sweeney from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
1:17.1	This is The Shocking Details.
1:20.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
1:25.4	I'm Joe, joined as always by
1:27.5	Vincent Caldoni.
1:29.1	Yeah, and as you may have guessed from our little teaser lead in there,
1:32.3	we're going to talk about a super secret military operation in the Antarctic
1:36.5	that happened back in the 1940s that they still don't talk about today.
1:42.3	No, it's still pretty heavily classified.
1:44.4	It still kind of is, yeah, though, yeah.
1:46.7	So, Operation High Jump is what it was called.
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