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Douglas, Wyoming was home to a massive Prisoner of War Camp during World War Two. When the war ended the camp was closed leaving behind only a hospital and an old officers' club where it's rumored some people never left. How Can I Visit The Old Officers' Club?Haunted CheyenneStumbling on SkeletonsA Trail of Human SkeletonsOdd Fellows Have Skeletons In Their Closets
In 1943 several thousand Prisoners of War from Germany and Italy were taken across the US to the tiny farming and ranching town of Douglas, Wyoming. This episode shares oral histories from people who remembered the camp and what they learned about the people held inside.Click here to see how you can arrange a visit to the remaining Officers' Club.#WorldWarTwo #POWs #Wyoming #CampDouglas
In 2017, Dallin Cooper left Riverton, Wyoming to live in China. While there, he ate strange things, slept on hard beds, and upon returning home, had an explanation about why so many toilets in Yellowstone get broken.35 Chinese Translation FailsWhen East Meets West, Toilet Seats Take a Beating - Mike KoshmrlAs Asian Tourism Soars, the Mystery of Broken Toilet Seats Has Been Solved - Tom HowardWhat Diseases Can You Get From Sitting on a Toilet? - Dan Brennan MDWhy Do Chinese People Love Taking Photos with Western Tourists?Book Dallin to SpeakBuy Dallin's BookDallin's PodcastDallin's YouTube
In June of 1942, Japanese forces invaded two small Islands that are part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. We listen to two men who were there when the invasion started and one who fought to take it back. Please check out:The Battle of AttuEven More About The BattleAleut Evacuation & Internment during World war IIJoseph Sasser's Full InterviewCharles House's Full InterviewNurses' CampsAttu Boy (Nick Golodoff's Story)Last Letters From Attu (Etta Jones' Story)
In 1980, George C Scott (Patton) stared in a horror movie about a haunted house called The Changeling. Even though the film was set in Seattle, it was based on a story written by Russel Hunter who claimed to have paranormal experiences in his home near Cheesman Park in Denver, CO in 1969. (See Photo)We talk with Katie Rudolph at the Denver Public Library about her research into Hunter's story and compare it with the movie while trying to see if there is any truth to his strange and freighting story. Katie's Research: A Denver House That Inspired a Horror Film
Bill Betenson is Butch Cassidy's great nephew and says that his great grandmother insisted that Cassidy came back to visit his family in Utah in 1925, seventeen years after his supposed death in a Bolivian shootout. While myths of outlaws surviving their supposed deaths are common, Bill and his great grandmother share a very convincing story and DNA evidence also makes the time and place of Cassidy's death highly questionable. If you enjoy this episode, you might like this one about Butch Cassidy meeting with his lawyer in Piedmont, Wyoming before the Montpelier Idaho Robbery.Butch Cassidy, My Brother by Lula Parker BetensonButch Cassidy: The Wyoming Years by Bill BetensonButch Cassidy was described as "cheery and affable" on wanted postersDNA Testing of Cassidy and Sundance's alleged remainsMore on DNA and Cassidy/Sundance
Lois Christiansen & Wendy Peterson still live within walking distance of the Ghost Town of Piedmont, Wyoming where Butch Cassidy met with his lawyer to help a friend facing a murder trial. In 1869, angry railroad workers forced dignitaries headed to the Golden Spike Ceremony in Utah off the tracks and held them there until they were paid. We ask our interviewees what it's like living and growing up in this remote spot so close to a ghost town that played a big part in Western History.By Bill Betenson's Book Butch Cassidy: The Wyoming Years here Bub Meeks' Robbery of The Guild Store in Fort BridgerLetters from Douglas Preston to Butch CassidyWebsite to visit The Charcoal Kilns
In the early 1980's, my older brother, Mark Petersen, started volunteering at a radio station in a log cabin with grass growing on it's roof near North Pole, Alaska. Known as King Jesus North Pole (KJNP), it broadcast religious messages to native people in Alaska's interior and even into the Soviet Union. Mark tells us what it was like working at a station where he butchered his own meat and sent on-air messages to trappers and gold miners in Alaska's remote regions.Photo of KJNP Courtesy of Carol M HighsmithKJNPMark's YouTube Channel: Local Highlights
In 1993, Lisa Nicolle Hamilton's family moved into an old LDS church building built just after the American Civil War. She talks about what it was like growing up in the old building and how her family adapted the building into a home and the community's reaction to the church's new use. Lisa's YouTube ChannelThe Old Grantsville ChurchTwinpectol (Lisa's brothers' band with the song about living in the Church)Hey Kim and Katie (Lisa's relatives' podcast)
A strange tale involving Spanish explorers, Mormon pioneers, a spiritualist, possible former members of Butch Cassidy's gang, and a school teacher from Wyoming's Bridger Valley who barely made it out of the Uinta's with his life.Note: This Episode's icon is a photo of a known mine near Park City, UT and is not of any lost mines.Sources Cited:-Footprints In The Wilderness: A history of The Lost Rhoades Mines-Faded Footprints: The Lost Rhoades Gold Mines & Other Hidden Treasures of the Uinta's-The Gold of Carre-Shinob-The Dominguez & Escalante Expedition-Territorial Evolution of Mexico-Deseret News Article About Spanish Mission in Utah-Mormon Gold Coinage-Lee Davidson's 1989 Article about Amasa A Davidson's 1920 near-fatal hunt for the gold-Deseret News Article About Two Men Arrested While Hunting Gold
In a lonely spot along the Wyoming/Utah Border in the Uinta Mountains is a place called "Suicide Park." On this episode I try to find out how it got its name.Sources:History of logging in SwedenVideo of man walking on logs in a river (starts about 6 mins 19 sec)What and how much did lumberjacks eat?The icon for this episode is a photo of logging from 1939 in Wisconsin courtesy of The National Archives.
Weird occurrences on a ranch in southwest Wyoming. Here are some other stories like this one:The Lady of ArlingtonTeenaged Tours of an Old PrisonWhen your soda loving Bison gets murdered and mutilated - yes this really is a true story
Across the Rocky Mountains Sheep Herders from places as diverse as Greece to Scotland and The Basque Region to Peru have left messages and drawings on Aspen Trees. We talk with Dr. Alison Krögel about some of the 300 aspen carvings she has documented and the deeper meanings and connections she's found in them at times. Please check out her website The Aspen Archives to learn more and see pictures of some of them.Do you want to advertise with That Doesn't Happen Every Day? Please send me and email: deanarthurpetersen@gmail.comThis episode's icon is courtesy of Mark Chapman.
We interview a new mortician about why she chose to do what she does, what it's really like working with decedents, and why we have morticians and funerals.
Despite their best efforts to remove all the bodies from a cemetery in Green River, Wyoming, remains of people and their graves continue to be found under and around The Sweetwater County Library. In addition to physical items, staff and visitors have also claimed to have frightening and unusual encounters there. We interview two people who've worked there about some the weird things they've seen and heard there. If you visit The Sweetwater County Library, please be respectful and remember that it is first and foremost a library. Please check out Micki Gilmore's book about the library Spirits in the Stacks: Tales from Sweetwater County's haunted libraryIf you'd like to advertise on this podcast please email me: deanarthurpetersen@gmail.com
Harold Slagowski started construction on what would become a local landmark over fifty years ago using a Skill saw. Today it remains independent and still going, selling thick hamburgers with handmade patties and thick milkshakes. We ask Harold what got it started and what kept it going. Please eat at the Mountain View Drive Inn located at 551 WY-414, Mountain View, WY 82939.Forbes article about how many businesses fail in the first few years.
In the late 1990's CJ Young's orange soda loving bison Ralphie was found mutilated. This is their story.
In the early 1970's, John Mionczynski was studying Big Horn Sheep in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains when something happened that would change his life forever. More info: Why no bones?Numbers of Black Bear in OregonWhat throws better? Primates or People?Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science - Dr Jeff MeldrumThe Relic Hominoid InquiryThe Scientist Grover Krantz Risked It All... Chasing BigfootScientist John Bindernagel Spent Decades Stalking Sasquatch
Only about a decade before Neil Armstrong would walk on the moon, a posse was called in in Mountain View, Wyoming to hunt two "masked bandits" who robbed the Uinta County State Bank and then fled on horseback into the Uinta Mountains.
In the mid 1970’s, ranchers in Wyoming’s Bridger Valley suffered extensive cattle mutilations with little explanation of why or who was behind it. Former Uinta County Sheriff Leonard Hysell shares his memories of the mutilations as well as who he believes was behind it all. Sources Sited:Army: Nerve Agent Near Dead Utah sheep in ’68 – Jim Woolf. The Salt Lake Tribune 1998 Did Dugway Conduct Over 600 Radiation Tests? - Lee Davidson. The Deseret News 1994.US Army Chemical Materials Activity - Staff. US Army Chemical Materials Agency 2012.
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