• Episode 015: When Birds Attack / The Yucca Flat Experiment

  • Jan 27 2025
  • Length: 39 mins
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Episode 015: When Birds Attack / The Yucca Flat Experiment

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  • In this episode, Nick recounts the bizarre events that befell the small coastal city of Capitola, California in 1961, when thousands of seabirds attacked the city, an incident eerily similar to Alfred Hitchcock's famous movie The Birds, yet this happened two years before the movie. What caused the birds to swarm Capitola and peck madly at its residents, and could it happen again? Then, Dave tells the sad story of American servicemen purposely exposed, without their knowledge or consent, to the radiation of nuclear blasts at Yucca Flat, Nevada in the 1950s. The dark and tragic secret they were forced to keep for decades has finally been revealed.

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    Hosted by Nicholas Kaufmann and David Wellington
    Edited by David Wellington
    Additional voices by Jennifer Dikes and Alexa Antopol
    Logo by Errick Nunnally
    Theme song "Phantom Fun" by Jonathan Boyle

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