Speaker 1: Hey, guys, Steve here, you are listening to one of
Speaker 1: our original twenty six episodes. If you listen to any
Speaker 1: of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding
Speaker 1: a little different in these ones. Yeah, there's a reason
Speaker 1: for that. There is they've been remastered. They have been
Speaker 1: remastered because they had a really annoying hum. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean a huge thanks to listener James for doing almost
Speaker 1: all of the legwork on this thing. They'll also notice
Speaker 1: if you had listened to what we're calling the last
Speaker 1: twenty six episodes before and you're re listening now, the
Speaker 1: music and sound effects are gone. Yes, we've we've gone
Speaker 1: back to straight audio, so be warned. We sound a
Speaker 1: little different today than we do in what you're about
Speaker 1: to listen to. Yeah, and bye bye, thinking sideways. I
Speaker 1: don't think you never know stories of things. We simply
Speaker 1: don't know the answer too. Hello, and welcome to the show,
Speaker 1: Steve im And we're going to tell you a strange story.
Speaker 1: Do you have a strange story for us? I do
Speaker 1: have a strange story for all right. This is the
Speaker 1: story of the ghost Ship. The ghost ship, the only
Speaker 1: GHO ship ship ship. Okay, it's called doug o ship.
Speaker 1: But it's a ghost ship. I gotta say, I love
Speaker 1: ghost ship stories. I know they are your favorite. You've
Speaker 1: told them around the campfire a lot. They're they're pretty
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Yeah, right, Well, this story begins in so
Speaker 1: the United States was still in the middle of, or
Speaker 1: near the end of, they didn't know it, World War two.
Speaker 1: The country was worried about attacks on the western coast
Speaker 1: from the Japanese. So what they decide to do is
Speaker 1: the country decides, or the air force decides that would
Speaker 1: be a great idea, is let's get blimps because they
Speaker 1: can hover in one spot for long periods of time
Speaker 1: without using a lot of fuel, and they can patrol
Speaker 1: the coast, watch out for ships and sobs. And there's
Speaker 1: actually talking about bringing the blimp back. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that there is there. There actually has talk about that.
Speaker 1: Very cool, has many uses, and they're cheap to keep
Speaker 1: up in the air and very safe historically, except for
Speaker 1: like you know, the hydrogen, the hydrogen filled ones. Well
Speaker 1: there's that, and what we're going to talk about. So
Speaker 1: in nineteen forty, the U. S. Navy I think I
Speaker 1: said air Force before, but it was the Navy purchased
Speaker 1: from the Goodyear Company. They're blimp and named the Ranger.
Speaker 1: It worked, so they decide we're going to get a
Speaker 1: couple of more of these in March. On March five two,
Speaker 1: the L eight was purchased from but good Year and
Speaker 1: that was the blimp in question. Uh. Now, so it's
Speaker 1: a blimp story. It's not a ghost ship. It's a
Speaker 1: ghost blimp. Yes, yes it is. It is a blimp,
Speaker 1: but they call it the ghost ship. Okay, isn't it
Speaker 1: is an airship after all? Exactly? But better ghos. Uh.
Speaker 1: Not only did these blimps do routine patrols up and
Speaker 1: down the coast, they also were involved in some clandestine operations.
Speaker 1: The L A was actually involved in an operation where
Speaker 1: it left the San Francisco Bay on the eleventh of
Speaker 1: April and it was hauling a secret three pound cargo
Speaker 1: which it took out to see and it met the
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier the USS Hornet. Today we know that the
Speaker 1: cargo actually was parts for the B five bombers, and
Speaker 1: that the Hornet initiated the first attack on the islands
Speaker 1: of Japan, So our first air raids actually on Japan.
Speaker 1: Those were known as the Do Little raids, so they
Speaker 1: played a pretty important part at the time. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna move forward in time from there to August six.
Speaker 1: The L eight is scheduled to go on a routine
Speaker 1: patrol to look for submarines. Supposed to leave Treasure Island,
Speaker 1: which is in the San Francisco Bay. It's gonna head
Speaker 1: on about a thirty mile trip out to sea, circle around,
Speaker 1: look around, and come back. The l ad always normally
Speaker 1: would have a crew of three. In this instance, there
Speaker 1: was Lieutenant Ernest Cody and Sign Charles Adams and machine
Speaker 1: just made third Class James Hill, so we've got three men.
Speaker 1: They meet the cargo load of this particular blimp that's
Speaker 1: the Mexican Carrier around its weight limb. Unfortunately, that day
Speaker 1: it was very foggy, and as we know, when it's foggy,
Speaker 1: condensation forms on everything. A blimp of that size gets
Speaker 1: so much water a condensation on it that it changed
Speaker 1: the weight dynamics of the blimp and they realized that
Speaker 1: it had too much weight, so it couldn't take the
Speaker 1: entire crew. The Navy decides, well, we're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and just send it out with two of you, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave someone behind. So it turns out that
Speaker 1: James Hill is the one who's a let who's chosen
Speaker 1: to stay behind him. Yeah, yeah, indeed. Well, he goes
Speaker 1: on board, he sets up all the controls, make sure
Speaker 1: everything's in line, and then he walks away from the blimp.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind, this crew had been on this
Speaker 1: blimp many many times, so it wasn't as if it
Speaker 1: was their first run out. Uh So, at six o
Speaker 1: three am on the sixteenth of August two, the L
Speaker 1: eight takes off from Treasure Island. About an hour and
Speaker 1: a half into the patrol, which would be seven forty
Speaker 1: two in the morning or am, Cody radios back that
Speaker 1: he has spotted a potential oils and they're gonna go investigate.
Speaker 1: That's the last time anybody ever heard from the crew.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind, I'm I'm specifying here. It's the
Speaker 1: crew about eleven fifteen were in day or in merse
Speaker 1: said at the beach, California, it's a lovely day. We're
Speaker 1: all hanging out on the beach, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the crowds watch a blimp drifting in from the ocean
Speaker 1: and descending. It descends enough that it hits the cliffs
Speaker 1: out on the beach and snags snags there. The breeze
Speaker 1: hits it, I'm not exactly sure, it damages an engine,
Speaker 1: and somehow the blimp breaks free. Crowds are walking towards it.
Speaker 1: They want to know what's going on right up until
Speaker 1: a depth charge falls off, at which point everybody runs away. Okay,
Speaker 1: well the depth charge, luckily enough, didn't go off, but
Speaker 1: the blimp, now lightened load continue news on inland. It
Speaker 1: eventually comes to rest in the four hundred block in
Speaker 1: Daily City on Bellevue Avenue. The yeah, because in the
Speaker 1: process it was a terrible fender bender. In the process
Speaker 1: of coming down, it hits a house and a couple
Speaker 1: of cars. Of course. Uh yeah, not something I would
Speaker 1: want to have running into my house. A pictures, No,
Speaker 1: unfortunately they didn't have them on the iPhone wasn't around yet.
Speaker 1: Uh So we do have a quote from that time,
Speaker 1: and the quote reads is such it was Mrs Appleton.
Speaker 1: She said that all of a sudden, this huge beheemoth
Speaker 1: had settled and scraped across the top of a roof.
Speaker 1: She said it sounded like change dragging, but the entire
Speaker 1: house was blacked out because of the size of this thing.
Speaker 1: She raced to the front window, wondering what in the
Speaker 1: world was going on, and she saw the rest of it.
Speaker 1: The gondola hit the cross arm, broke off part of
Speaker 1: the mechanism, and then gradually settled to the ground. So
Speaker 1: this thing scraped across the roof. It was big enough
Speaker 1: and made quite a lot of noise. The ship comes
Speaker 1: to rest in the middle of the street, and what happens,
Speaker 1: of course, the envelope but it holds all the gas,
Speaker 1: collapses and just swamps everything. Can you imagine, It's like
Speaker 1: that thing just lands in your house. You wake up
Speaker 1: and it's collapsed over your house. You're looking at that
Speaker 1: the windows. You can't see anything. You know, you're looking
Speaker 1: at the clock. It's eleven o'clock in the morning, but
Speaker 1: it's blackout. This is weird. Can't see two feet in
Speaker 1: front of me exactly. That would be a little Did
Speaker 1: anybody get trapped underneath this thing when it collapsed, Well, no,
Speaker 1: no bystanders were trapped, but there were a lot of
Speaker 1: people who were kind of following it as it was
Speaker 1: coming down, So as soon as it hit people were
Speaker 1: on the scene. Everybody presumed that the crew must be
Speaker 1: stuck in the gondola, the part that hangs on the
Speaker 1: bottom that the crew hangs out in or works in.
Speaker 1: And so they rushed to their aid. They hack and
Speaker 1: they caught, and they saw their way through the envelope,
Speaker 1: desperately trying to get to the gondola. Gentleman who lived
Speaker 1: across the street by the name of William Morris. He
Speaker 1: was a volunteer firefighter, and he went out there and
Speaker 1: did his everything he could, and he was one of
Speaker 1: the first people who got through the envelope and got
Speaker 1: to the gondola. When he got there, he said, and
Speaker 1: he said, it was very strange because, as the quote goes,
Speaker 1: the doors were open and nobody was in the cabin.
Speaker 1: The crew was completely gone nowhere near. Nobody knows where
Speaker 1: they are. They're never found. The Navy launches a land
Speaker 1: and sea search. They go everywhere looking for him, but
Speaker 1: they can't find them. A year later, the Navy declared
Speaker 1: Cody and Adams officially deceived east and the search officially ended.
Speaker 1: So did they I assume that they examined this the
Speaker 1: envelope or whatever you call it, for both holes. Well,
Speaker 1: the problem was that the bystanders who were attempting to
Speaker 1: help destroyed it. It was to the to the point
Speaker 1: that it was not salvageable. Did they find any clues
Speaker 1: in the gondola, Well, they did find some things in
Speaker 1: the gondola. Uh, and and some of this is weird,
Speaker 1: some of it's odd, and we will We'll just go
Speaker 1: ahead and we'll start with the gondola itself. When the
Speaker 1: navy arrived, they inspected it, and they found that all
Speaker 1: the parachutes were accounted for. The life belts, which is
Speaker 1: the equivalent of a life vest, were gone, the life
Speaker 1: raft was still in place, and the radio was working normally,
Speaker 1: so everything seemed in order. Most of the fuel was
Speaker 1: still left in the ship. Uh. The engines were switched on,
Speaker 1: but weren't actually working at the time, obviously because of
Speaker 1: the crash with the cliff. And Mers said, uh. And
Speaker 1: there was a briefcase in the gondola that still contained
Speaker 1: the classified files that were kept on on the ship.
Speaker 1: There were rumors at one point for many years that
Speaker 1: there was a half eaten sandwich and a warm cup
Speaker 1: of coffee still on the console. That's been debunked that
Speaker 1: that actually never happened. But you do come across that
Speaker 1: when you find this story there. Now, there are a
Speaker 1: couple of other things that we know that we found
Speaker 1: through some research that's been done. I had talked about earlier.
Speaker 1: There was a dish or a big dent in the
Speaker 1: middle of the envelope. What that was from is that
Speaker 1: at some point the blimp began to rise just essentially
Speaker 1: straight up to the point that it got high enough
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere that the pressure was too great and
Speaker 1: it caused a automatic pressure release valve to go off,
Speaker 1: vented a bunch of the gas, therefore reducing its lifting power.
Speaker 1: So as it came back down into the pressure atmospheric
Speaker 1: pressures meant to work under the bag wasn't as full,
Speaker 1: so it sank, and that's why there was that giant dip,
Speaker 1: which explains why as it was coming inland it continued
Speaker 1: to drop and eventually crash into the ground. The only
Speaker 1: other account that we have of the L eight during
Speaker 1: its mission is from two fishing boats that were out
Speaker 1: that day, and they said they did observe the blimp
Speaker 1: descending from whatever's normal operation elevation was down to about
Speaker 1: three feet above the sea. Presumably that's when they were
Speaker 1: investigating the oil slick that they had radioed back and
Speaker 1: said they were checking out, didn't know if it was
Speaker 1: a submarine or something. Well, as any smart captain would do,
Speaker 1: both captains pulled up their nets and turned around and
Speaker 1: tuck tail. The last thing they wanted to do was
Speaker 1: be in the area. If it dropped a depth charge,
Speaker 1: it would be kind of a bad thing, right. So
Speaker 1: that's as far as it goes. That's as far as
Speaker 1: we know. All of the facts that are associated with
Speaker 1: the l A and there's nothing else weird that they discovered. Nope,
Speaker 1: nothing else. It crew is gone. Everything that should be
Speaker 1: in place is pretty much in place. Nothing that they
Speaker 1: can tell is missing, Nothing out of the ordinary that
Speaker 1: they can tell has happened. Well, of course, begin and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of some crazy, some not so crazy
Speaker 1: theories out there as to what could have happened. I
Speaker 1: think it's actually quite obvious what happened. It was a
Speaker 1: gay suicide pact. Okay, Jenny, Yeah, you're you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: That's why all this time, looking at the story, you've
Speaker 1: you've figured it out. It was obvious all along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was any thinking? All right, here's what the theories are.
Speaker 1: We know that the L eight was out looking for
Speaker 1: Japanese submarines. That was their primary mission was to find
Speaker 1: submarines to protect the coastline so that the Japanese didn't
Speaker 1: attack us on our own soil, or at least in
Speaker 1: the water on our own soil. Well, some people believe
Speaker 1: that what must have happened is that when the blimp descended,
Speaker 1: it did indeed find a Japanese sub, and that the
Speaker 1: crew of the sub overpowered them and pulled them out
Speaker 1: of the Essentially, I'm guessing this means the gondolas a
Speaker 1: couple feet off the water, right against the water, essentially,
Speaker 1: and that they overpowered them and they would have gotten
Speaker 1: that low though, right, that's that's the hard part, and
Speaker 1: then stuffed them in the hold and took off. Now
Speaker 1: there's some cread Now there's some creed ins to this show,
Speaker 1: because if you think about, well, let's say that it's
Speaker 1: just floating there and there's no crew on the top up,
Speaker 1: one of them might have climbed down the ladder to
Speaker 1: check it out, got captured, and then you know, with
Speaker 1: a gun to his head, the Japanese said get down here,
Speaker 1: or we kill your friend. Except for that, wouldn't they
Speaker 1: want that classified information? That was on the blimp. If
Speaker 1: they went into the blimp, you would think they would
Speaker 1: understand they would look for that. Maybe they didn't go
Speaker 1: into the blimp. But the other problem with that theory
Speaker 1: is that the radio was working. Don't you think that
Speaker 1: the first thing that you would do when you found
Speaker 1: a sub floating is to call back and say, I
Speaker 1: found a sub. Yeah, I believe what I just found.
Speaker 1: Nothing like that, so we don't. Isn't some navy code
Speaker 1: for Japanese sub? Nothing I have ever heard. No, So
Speaker 1: let's see. There is theory number two. Theory number two
Speaker 1: says that it was a love triangle, that these men
Speaker 1: were involved in a love triangle with a woman that
Speaker 1: they were both seeing on show are Now here's the
Speaker 1: hard part about this, or what what doesn't hold water
Speaker 1: for me on that is that Cody was twenty seven
Speaker 1: and Adams was thirty eight, so I would guess that
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't likely be chasing the same woman. Maybe
Speaker 1: they were, it's hard to say. It is possible. But
Speaker 1: the two friends, by the way, uh, there's no records
Speaker 1: to say what their relationship to each other was other
Speaker 1: than they were co workers that they served on this
Speaker 1: ship and that's all we know that that I can
Speaker 1: find is. I did go to some navy sides, looked
Speaker 1: up to a lot of stuff, but that kind of
Speaker 1: information never seems to have been reported, none of it
Speaker 1: was recorded. Anyway. Here's what we have. We have a
Speaker 1: we have a love trying. These two men are on
Speaker 1: on the l a and a fight breaks out. They're
Speaker 1: fighting for her love. They get into a fist fight.
Speaker 1: One thing leads to another, or they accidentally fall into
Speaker 1: the door of the gondola and they both fall out
Speaker 1: to their deaths at sea. Surely there's some safety mechanism there, though,
Speaker 1: uh well, you know it's it's funny, but the gondola,
Speaker 1: the walls of the gondola are the metal is six
Speaker 1: millimeters thick, extremely thin, so I'm guessing it had to
Speaker 1: be thin to be light. Also, when I was doing
Speaker 1: my research on this, came across reports from air or
Speaker 1: navy men who had been in that or similar gondolas
Speaker 1: who had mentioned that they were extremely flimsy. So it
Speaker 1: did have a bar to lock the door. But presumably
Speaker 1: if the whole thing is made to be as light
Speaker 1: as possible, it's conceivable that somebody slamming into it could
Speaker 1: just pop the whole thing open. That's true, so there
Speaker 1: is some possibility, but it was you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the Biastanders who opened it up don't remember us the
Speaker 1: door already open when they finally got to the gondola
Speaker 1: or was it. Holding to Morris, who was the first
Speaker 1: one to get through to the gondola, he said the
Speaker 1: door was wide open. We don't know. Did it get
Speaker 1: popped open when it ran into the cliff, was it
Speaker 1: open ahead of time? There's there's not a lot to
Speaker 1: support it. Again, the details on this one are one
Speaker 1: of those weird military items where things have been held back,
Speaker 1: not necessarily reported, so it's it's hard to get all
Speaker 1: those details. I think that they could ask some of
Speaker 1: the witnesses on the front, the beach and etcetera. But
Speaker 1: then again, you know as well as I do, that
Speaker 1: witness statements tend to be fraught with errors and they
Speaker 1: conflict constantly. So it does. It's hard to say. But
Speaker 1: unfortunately this was seventy plus years ago. Not likely to
Speaker 1: find many of those folks around anymore than I tell you.
Speaker 1: But there is one final theory, and this is a
Speaker 1: theory that personally I hold it. I think is is
Speaker 1: probably the good one, and it's the burn to triangle. No.
Speaker 1: The last one is that it may have been a
Speaker 1: complete freak accident that claimed both of their lives. When
Speaker 1: the gondala was found, like I said, the door latch
Speaker 1: was open and the door was open, which obviously enough
Speaker 1: is not the way that it should happen when it's
Speaker 1: in flight. There they do say there's a safety bar,
Speaker 1: but again I have a feeling that that safety bar
Speaker 1: is probably pretty minimal and flimsy, especially considering a nWo
Speaker 1: we were really worried about safety as much as we
Speaker 1: are now. It's not some double latch system. It's probably
Speaker 1: just a door bolt door handle with a bolt in it.
Speaker 1: But still, these guys have been working at this thing
Speaker 1: for a long time. They probably no better than it
Speaker 1: go smashing into the door. It's very true. But here's
Speaker 1: where what I think has probably happened starts to gain
Speaker 1: some some footing. There was a microphone plugged in inside
Speaker 1: the cockpit, and that microphone, uh, it goes to a loudspeaker.
Speaker 1: That loudspeaker was dangling outside of the gondola, so it
Speaker 1: was outside. So what people are thinking might have happened
Speaker 1: is that there was something mechanically that went wrong, how
Speaker 1: you know, part way through their journey, two hours into
Speaker 1: the trip, and one of the men decided that he
Speaker 1: would try and go out and fix it ran into trouble.
Speaker 1: So the so crewman number one is outside, crewmen number
Speaker 1: two is inside using the loudspeakers. Obviously you're moving along
Speaker 1: and it's windy, it's loud, so you gotta use the
Speaker 1: loudspeaker to be heard, and that what he was doing
Speaker 1: was talking to his his his compatriot, at which point
Speaker 1: he ran into trouble. So crewm number one outside swifts
Speaker 1: or gets snagged or something happens, and crew and number
Speaker 1: two decides that the best thing to do is to
Speaker 1: go out and try and help him, at which point
Speaker 1: they both lose their grip and they both fall to
Speaker 1: the sea. But why wouldn't they have radioed back that
Speaker 1: there was a problem. That's the hard part. Now have
Speaker 1: do you either of you have you ever known folks
Speaker 1: that were in the military. What what is the one
Speaker 1: thing you never tell your boss in the military, Something
Speaker 1: went wrong, something's broken. Hey, chief, this is not okay.
Speaker 1: They don't like to hear that. And the bravado says
Speaker 1: Male Bravado says, I can fix this, fix it now,
Speaker 1: which may very well have been the wrong thing to do,
Speaker 1: and it may have been what claimed their lives. But
Speaker 1: we don't know nothing exist. Nobody's were ever found. If
Speaker 1: they felt to their destincy. You know what it's like
Speaker 1: when ships go down out of however, you know, a
Speaker 1: small fraction or ever found. Nobody knows whatever happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. You wouldn't think they would have found their
Speaker 1: bodies because if they were wearing their life belts, that
Speaker 1: would have that would have kept their bodies afloat. They
Speaker 1: eventually would have washed up for sure. Yeah, unless the
Speaker 1: aliens got yeah, or the sharks or the sharks California.
Speaker 1: That's good point. A lot of big toothfish. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm lying towards the theory that they were actually on
Speaker 1: board when it landed and they just crawled away into
Speaker 1: the collapse envelope. And because they probably screwed up in
Speaker 1: some major way. Uh, and they knew they were going
Speaker 1: to be in like, you know, big trouble when they
Speaker 1: got back, and so they decided, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's just sneak off and go change our names and
Speaker 1: move to another state. So what you think it happened
Speaker 1: is that they're both sitting there reading time, not paying
Speaker 1: attention to play Okay, it would have been Playboy. I
Speaker 1: was not around yet. I don't think it would have
Speaker 1: been some in mag. Yeah, some skin mag. And they're
Speaker 1: not paying attention and they run into the cliff, at
Speaker 1: which point go, oh, yeah, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Let's let's run away to Manabe. They bailed on the cliff.
Speaker 1: They released the depth charge, and while that was a distraction,
Speaker 1: they like, bailed out on the cliff. That's that would
Speaker 1: actually scenario. And if they didn't, if they didn't bail
Speaker 1: on the cliff, you know, because the depth charge I
Speaker 1: would think wouldn't just pop out easily. But they're saying
Speaker 1: like like, hey, we're snagged on this. We gotta get
Speaker 1: some lift drop a depth charge drop and yeah that
Speaker 1: and that'll get us unsnagged from this thing. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I thought about it everything, And now I'm glad you
Speaker 1: bring that up, because I was reading it and thinking
Speaker 1: that what it meant was the force of the impact
Speaker 1: broken loose. But but your theory is just as possible.
Speaker 1: But we need we need we need some lift. Let's
Speaker 1: get rid of some weight. Throw everything overboard. It's like that,
Speaker 1: what is it, the old hot air balloon cartoon? And dude,
Speaker 1: you throw everything overboard as fast as you can, including
Speaker 1: the guy you don't like. Yeah, very well. Could have happened,
Speaker 1: Yeah it couldn't you know, it could be this too.
Speaker 1: Maybe perhaps one of them murdered the other one out
Speaker 1: of sea, pushed his body out, and you know, I
Speaker 1: have to waiting it down a little bit or something
Speaker 1: like that. And then it comes and and then he's
Speaker 1: plotted this out. He's gonna come, he's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: He's gonna bring it in really low, right over the beach.
Speaker 1: There'll be lots of witnesses that this thing is just
Speaker 1: a drift and everything. But he screws up, hooks up
Speaker 1: the hooks on the clip, has to drop a depth
Speaker 1: charge to get left, and then continues on, continues on
Speaker 1: to his landing, and then when the whole thing collapses,
Speaker 1: he crawls away underneath you on the collapse envelope. Ostensibly
Speaker 1: he would have been in an uniform. The only drawback
Speaker 1: he could have taken his his shirt off, so you know,
Speaker 1: whereas when you wear a dress shirt or some kind
Speaker 1: of shirt. You've only got a T shirt of some
Speaker 1: kind of Yeah, and also slipped away. And also if
Speaker 1: you if you planned it out in the dance, which
Speaker 1: he may have done, he could have brought along some
Speaker 1: extra clothes. Is that I think we've solved it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You want another weird, other twisted bit of history with
Speaker 1: this story. So the l A was purchased, as I
Speaker 1: said in the beginning, from the good Year Corporation. When
Speaker 1: the Navy stopped using blimps, they sold it back to
Speaker 1: good Year. We'll tell how to patches on it on it, uh,
Speaker 1: And the this particular blim was the good Year blimp
Speaker 1: that was used at football games from nineteen two. It
Speaker 1: was the same gondola, so the same don that was
Speaker 1: recording all those football games. And we always saw the
Speaker 1: commercials with if you're old enough to remember watching those commercials,
Speaker 1: that was the gondola that is involved in this crash. Today,
Speaker 1: that gondola, obviously it's got it's stopped being used in
Speaker 1: eight two. It's now in I believe it's a good
Speaker 1: Year museum. They still keep it and they still have it,
Speaker 1: so it is still around. Obviously probably repaired and repainted
Speaker 1: several times what happened in forty two, but probably, But
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, don't go don't go breaking in and
Speaker 1: trying to hop onto it and go looking for clues,
Speaker 1: because they're they're long gone. Yeah, okay, and that's it.
Speaker 1: We've got it all right. Well, if if you want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and read up on this story and
Speaker 1: take a look at what we use for the research
Speaker 1: on this, you can always just go ahead to our website,
Speaker 1: which is Thinking Sideways podcast dot com and you can
Speaker 1: find all research links right there. I feel like letting
Speaker 1: us know you've got thoughts on it. You could always
Speaker 1: go ahead. If you've got another theory or you think
Speaker 1: we've missed a piece of information, go ahead and send
Speaker 1: us an email. Email is Thinking Sideways Podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. And with that, we're going to take off
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you next week with another bit
Speaker 1: of weirdness. Everybody, unless you know, we crash a blunt.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's not do that, okay,