Script for Friday, May 5th, 2022. Here's a sneak peek at tomorrow's podcast episode.

Hello everybody, my name is Jacob, and I am giving all of you a sneak peek at tomorrow's episode, my source is cited all the way at the end of the show notes/blog post. I would first like to give a special thank you to my viewers for giving me the motivation to give all of you more podcast episodes by viewing my work. Please stay tuned, and thank you again for all of the love and support by viewing my episodes prior to this post and going forward. As aforementioned, I am truly grateful that all of you have viewed and enjoyed my podcast.

Story #24

Billy the Kid's grave

For one of the most infamous gunslingers in the Old West, Billy the Kid sure does have a lot of graves. The first one is in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where he was (allegedly) shot down at age 21 by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881. The grave is surrounded on all sides by a cage, and for a good reason—the headstone has been stolen twice by fans. But is Billy the Kid actually buried at that spot?

Another man, Texas native Ollie "Brushy Bill" Roberts, claimed he was the real Billy, and even asked the New Mexico Governor for a pardon. He died in his 90s in 1950, and there's now a Billy the Kid Museum in his hometown of Hico, Texas, and a gravesite that promises it's where the actual gunslinger is buried. Wait, it doesn't end there. Another guy, John Miller, who also insisted he was Billy the Kid, is buried in Prescott, Arizona, and yes, his grave is open to visitors.

Three graves, but only one of them can be the real Billy. Unless the legendary criminal fooled everybody yet again and is buried somewhere else entirely.

Story #25

The Ghost RoadWeird floating lights have been seen all over the country, but there's something different about the mysterious light floating near the railroad tracks in Gurdon, Arkansas. For one thing, it isn't elusive. It's not part of local legend because some kids saw it once and everybody had to take their word for it.

The Gurdon Light has appeared for hundreds of people, and some townspeople have seen it so many times that it's become an ordinary part of their life. There's no rational explanation for the light, but there are legends. One has it that a railroad worker was hit by a train and decapitated, and the light comes from a lantern as his ghost continues to walk the tracks, looking for his disembodied head. Or it may be the ghost of a railroad foreman, murdered by one of his employees with either a railroad spike or a hammer. (The light started appeared shortly after the crime, which is why this story continues to be a popular one.) Either way, the Gordon Light proves to be one of the enduring unsolved mysteries of the world.

Story #26

Who Fired the "Shot Heard Round the World"?

The American Revolution officially began on April 19, 1775, with the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The badly-outnumbered Colonists clashed with British troops, trying to stop them from destroying the guns and ammunition they'd confiscated from nearby Concord.

Somebody's weapon was fired—the "shot heard 'round the world," as coined by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem "Concord Hymn"—and the war was underway. To this day, nobody is entirely sure who deserves the credit. Some claim it was an American who shot first, while others insist it was one of the British soldiers. Whoever fired that infamous shot, one thing is clear. (Warning: SPOILER ALERT.) The British were gonna lose.

Story #27

Babe Ruth Calls His Shot… Maybe

Don't tell a Yankee fan that it didn't happen, but there really isn't any proof that Babe Ruth called his shot during game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. As legend has it, the Great Bambino went up to bat during the fifth inning and pointed towards the bleachers, indicating exactly where he planned to hit the ball. And then he did just that.

The footage shows that he did indeed point, but was he pointing to center field (where he ended up hitting his historic home run), or to the pitcher or even the Cubs bench? There's no definitive proof. But whatever the reality, it was a big run for Babe Ruth and one of the most historic home runs ever. "As I hit the ball, every muscle in my system, every sense I had, told me that I had never hit a better one," Ruth himself remembered. "That as long as I lived nothing would ever feel as good as this."

Story #28

BigfootLegends of Bigfoot—a lumbering, hairy, ape-like creature that leaves gigantic footprints everywhere he goes—has been told in North America long before our descendants showed up, and they continue to be wildly popular, with supposed Bigfoot sightings happening in every U.S. state except Hawaii. (Bigfoot doesn't like volcanoes apparently.)

The creature, assuming he (or she) exists, really likes the Pacific Northwest, although he's notoriously camera shy. For such a big animal, nobody has been able to get a non-fuzzy photo of him yet. Although he's yet to be caught (or proven to exist), there have been numerous hoaxes, including most recently in 2014, when Bigfoot hunter Rick Dyer claimed he'd shot and killed the hairy beast and was planning to take the body on tour. Turns out, it was a prop made from latex, foam, and camel hair.

If Bigfoot exists, why can't anybody find him? And more importantly, why are so many people obsessed with finding an animal that, if it was housed in a zoo, 98% of visitors would skip because it's just like an ape but with better posture, let's go see the penguins instead?

Story #29

Amelia Earhart

The last time anybody saw pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart was during the summer of 1937, when she boarded her Lockheed Electra 10E plane and attempted to fly around the world, just her and her navigator Fred Noonan. She vanished without a trace, and U.S. authorities speculated that she probably crashed somewhere in the Pacific. But the rumors have persisted that she survived whatever happened to her plane. There have been photos of her allegedly alive and well, years after she supposedly perished, on a dock in the Marshall Islands. (The story was soon debunked.) Recently, bones found on a remote Pacific island back in 1940, which were originally thought to belong to a man, have been re-tested and are very likely Earhart's remains. In a few years, this favorite of unsolved mysteries of the world could very well be case closed.

Story #30

The Moon Landing

OK, so this one's definitely way out there in crazy conspiracy theory land. But hey, why not? Just for fun, we'll bring it up.

We all take it for granted that when Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" on July 20th 1969, he was actually walking on the lunar surface. But there are many people who claim it was all an act, that we never landed on the moon, much less walked on it. The theory is that the whole thing was staged, filmed in a Hollywood studio by director Stanley Kubrick, who had wowed audiences a year earlier with his pretty realistic outer space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. So what's the supposed evidence?

There are many questions, from the source of mysterious shadows to why there's a rock labeled with a "C" (the same way props are labeled on movie sets) to how the American flag, placed on the moon by Armstrong and fellow Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin, seems to ripple in the breeze. NASA, of course, continues to deny a moon-landing hoax, and Aldrin once punched a guy in the face for bringing up the conspiracy theory.

Source:

Larkin, Bob. 13 Mar. 2018. “The 30 Most Fascinating Unsolved Mysteries in America.” Where is Sherlock Holmes when you need him? Galvanized Media, Meredith Health Group. https://bestlifeonline.com/unsolved-mysteries/

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