EPISODE 162 | In Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

One of the great unsolved cases in FBI history is the tale of D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a commercial jet and then jumped out the door with a parachute and a bag full of cash. The story has been written about, films have been made, numerous “Mysteries of…” shows have had episodes about it, and there even a few songs that reference the famous gentleman thief of the Pacific Northwest.

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SECTIONS

1. 01:36 - Leaving on a Jet Plane - Dan Cooper hijacks a plane
2. 10:38 - Jet Airliner - Notable hijackings, tracking Cooper (money, hair, fingerprints, sketches, DNA, Canadian comics and more)
3. 25:19 - Come Fly with Me - Suspects: Duane Weber, Kenneth Christiansen, Paul Le Clair, Barbara Dayton, William Smith, Lyne Doyle Cooper,
4. 36:41 - Fly Away - More suspects: Ted Braden, Robert Rackstraw, Bryant Coffelt, Richard McCoy Jr,
5. 44:46 - Somewhere in the Sky - Ha Ha Ha, Cooper fans, "we know the middle", copycat Martin McNally, Raymond Sidney Russell, videos, cocktails and more

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EPISODE 161 | Vroom Broom: Witches & Witch Hunts

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, or women were burned alive in Salem, MA, at the end of the 17th century. Their crime? Being witches. That’s what many of us think, anyway. But just how much truth is there in all that? And what, exactly, is a witch? Are there any still around today?

This episode comes in time for this year’s Walpurgis Night, which happens in Central Europe on April 30. Bonfires are made, effigies of witches are burned or thrown into rivers, and there is much feasting and, well, a lot of drinking.

So, let’s talk witches, separating fact from fiction.

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SECTIONS

1. 01:40 - Salem Is a Spooky Massachusetts Witch City - The Salem Witch Trials
2. 18:13 - Burn the Witch - A history of witch hunting, the Hammer of Witches, the Great Hunt, notable witch trials, swimming a witch
3. 27:27 - The Devils of Loudon
4. 32:32 - The Spanish Inquisition
5. 35:35 - Waking the Witch - Belief in witches, the witch-cult hypothesis, new Paganism and Wicca
6. 43:47 - Miss Macbeth - Broomsticks, black cats, witches as marginalized people

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

Related Episode

• Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)

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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt

• DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
• PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 160 | A Real Collusion

Two political parties hardly seems sufficient for a nation of 342 million, and yet that's exactly the situation in the United States. How did that come to be, and why does it persist?

Author Stu Strumwasser explores those ideas with his new novel A Real Collusion as well as in this conversation.

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Links

• A Real Collusion website
• Stu Strumwasser website

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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt

• DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
• PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER