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146: OBITCH we're goin to town!

OBITCHUARY

Apr 11 2024 • 1 hr 17 mins

Oh Geoffs….put your seatbelts on because we are going on a journey this week! First up, Madison goes nuclear talking about doom towns! Afterwards, Spencer’s taking the driver’s seat to talk all about ghost towns! We’ve got an obituary for a man who’s legacy continues to this day, and one for a sweet man who deserves all the recognition. Oh, and of course, we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllllls!



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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/ghost-town

https://www.history.com/news/6-famous-ghost-towns-and-abandoned-cities

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509#:~:text=The%20town%20is%20named%20for,few%20dozen%20to%20a%20boomtown

https://medium.com/@scarestreet/strangest-disappearances-d5e024e0fd9e

https://www.factinate.com/places/ghost-towns-facts

https://www.farandwide.com/s/dangerous-ghost-towns-75a6a5bf1b9e43ee

https://nemasket.theweektoday.com/article/lorenzo-wood-vi-61/65904

https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/comments/1bi12yq/found_tucked_in_a_tree_near_the_top_of_mt/

https://www.nps.gov/mapr/learn/historyculture/secretcities.htm

https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project

https://archive.curbed.com/maps/map-fake-cities

https://www.oddee.com/item_99521.aspx

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/making-public-what-was-once-secret-los-alamos-and-manhattan-project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_basecamp.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/History/Trinity-Nuclear-Test/#:~:text=Department%20of%20Energy)-,The%20world's%20first%20nuclear%20explosion%20occurred%20on%20July%2016%2C%201945,the%20test%20was%20%22Trinity.%22

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/operation-doorstep-1953/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpo0qAfwDk&t=166s

https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-doorstep

https://nnss.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DOENV_1243-1.pdf

http://netwagtaildev.unl.edu/nebstudies/en/1950-1974/civil-defense/witnessing-an-atomic-blast/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/watch-nuclear-test-footage

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/what-happened-to-the-atomic-test-dummies#

https://history.nebraska.gov/behlen-buildings-survive-atomic-bombs/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vital-records-protection-nuclear-test-file-cabinets-operation-teapot

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