Podcast: The Dark Oak

Episode 32: The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

In honor of Black History Month, today we delve into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. The 16th Street Baptist Church was a large and prominent church located downtown, just blocks from Birmingham’s commercial district and City Hall. Just before 11 o’clock on September 15, 1963, instead of rising to begin prayers, the congregation was…

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Episode 31: The Disappearance of Cynthia Anderson – PATREON SNEAK PEEK

Cindy was last seen on August 4, 1981, at the law office where she worked on East Manhattan Boulevard in Toledo, Ohio. The law partners arrived back at the office after a meeting at noon to find the radio on and their desks prepared for the day. Cindy left her romance novel open on her…

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Episode 30: The Unsolved Murder of Dian Fossey

Thanks to lack of education and movies like King Kong, gorillas used to be considered ferocious man killers. It took a tenacious Dian Fossey moving to the jungles of Africa and living among the great apes, to change the public’s mind about the gentle giants.    During the 1960s and 70s, when a poaching pandemic threatened the existence…

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Episode 29: The Lost Colony of Roanoke

The origins of one of America’s oldest unsolved mysteries can be traced to August 1587, when a group of about 115 English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina.  Later that year, it was decided that John White, governor of the new colony, would sail back to England…

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Episode 28: The Brown Family Disappearance

When a Florida family went missing in 1985, local authorities were at a complete loss with absolutely no leads.  Nearly 6 weeks after James and Carolyn Brown and their three children were last heard from, the family was reported missing. Strange phone calls, a dead hamster and a wall that was freshly painted in an…

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Episode 27: The Mysterious Survival Story of Casey Hathaway

After three days in the unforgiving wilderness, three-year-old Casey Hathaway was miraculously found unharmed. He said a bear saved him from harm. Is it possible? We will explore his story as well as five additional stories of children mysteriously surviving in the wilderness including that of Alice Rachel Peck and Ida Mae Curtis. We conclude…

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Episode 26: Elizabeth Short AKA The Black Dahlia

We delve in to the most brutal, baffling, sensationalized, and shocking murders in American history. We will cover the life of Elizabeth short as well as details of the murder and several key suspects that may represent the faces of evil.   Sources: The Murder of the Black Dahlia: The Ultimate Cold Case Crime magazine….

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Episode 25: The Sodder Family’s Christmas Tragedy

When a tragic house fire destroys the Sodder Family home in the early hours of Christmas Day, 1945, it is believed 5 missing children perished in the flames.  As details unfold over the next days, weeks and months, the Sodder parents begin to question whether their children were in the house on the night of…

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Episode 24: The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

On the morning of July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on one of the last legs in their historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe. They never made it. What became of the two adventurers? Lost at sea? Crash landed on a deserted island? Captured by…

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Episode 23: The Disappearance and Murder of Laci and Conner Peterson – Re-examined

The disappearance and murder of Laci and Conner Peterson has been in and out of news and media headlines for over twenty years.  In this episode we compare Scott’s version of events to the State’s, along with the corresponding evidence in an effort to find the truth. We discuss Scott’s recent appeal where he alleges there…

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