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Yore Town Podcast

Yore Town Podcast is a podcast that features your town's dark, wild, unbelievable past that will have you thinking there is no way that really happened here. Matt, Megh, and Zac dust off the books, and hit the streets and an occasional nursing home to unveil Yore Town’s past. From small towns to where we live to big cities before they were what they are today. This is Yore Town, Yore Stories
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#181
September 21 · 32 min
The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: The Fortune That Never Existed
THE GREAT DIAMOND HOAX OF 1872 What if you traveled hundreds of miles into the American West, discovered genuine diamonds with your own hands, and still got scammed? In 1872, Philip Arnold and John Slack convinced some of California's wealthiest...
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#180
September 14 · 31 min
The Burning: The Movie Night That Devastated Dromcollogher
On Sunday night, September 5, 1926, the people of Dromcollogher, County Limerick, gathered for something special: a night at the movies. There was no cinema in the village, so roughly 150 people climbed into a wooden loft above a hardware store where...
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#179
September 7 · 30 min
The Buffalo World's Fair Where a President Was Assassinated
In 1901, Buffalo, New York, built a city that wasn't supposed to last. The Pan-American Exposition was a spectacular World's Fair designed to show millions of visitors what the new century could become. Enormous buildings surrounded illuminated...
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#178
August 31 · 31 min
The Great Hinckley Fire: The Town That Couldn't Outrun the Flames
On September 1, 1894, Hinckley, Minnesota was a booming lumber town surrounded by forests dried by months of drought and littered with highly combustible logging debris. By the next morning, much of the town was gone. In this episode of Yore Town,...
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#177
August 24 · 32 min
The Clymer Mine Disaster: 44 Men Went to Work and Never Came Home
On the afternoon of August 26, 1926, 57 men were working underground at the Clymer No. 1 coal mine near the small Pennsylvania community of Clymer. At exactly 1:00 PM, the mine exploded. Five or six minutes later, it exploded again. The second blast...
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#176
August 17 · 27 min
Lake Nyos: The Night a Lake Killed 1,700 People
On the night of August 21, 1986, families living beneath Lake Nyos in Cameroon went to sleep with no reason to believe they were in danger. By morning, roughly 1,700 people were dead. There was no massive fire. No flood had swept through the villages....
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#175
August 10 · 31 min
Owensboro and America’s Last Public Execution
On August 14, 1936, thousands of people arrived in Owensboro, Kentucky before sunrise. They came to watch a man die. Rainey Bethea's hanging would become known as the last fully public execution in American history. Estimates placed the crowd between...
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#174
August 3 · 32 min
Philadelphia’s Bellevue Hotel Gave a Killer Its Name
In July 1976, thousands of American Legion veterans gathered at Philadelphia’s luxurious Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. They came to celebrate America’s bicentennial, reconnect with old friends, and attend their annual convention. Then they went home....
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#173
July 27 · 34 min
The Ottawa, Illinois Radium Girls: The Story That Changed Worker Safety
Ottawa, Illinois Told Women to Lick Radioactive Paint At first glance, Ottawa, Illinois is a quiet river town with historic streets and small-town charm. But beneath that peaceful image lies the story of one of the most shocking industrial disasters...
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#172
July 20 · 37 min
New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs | Yore Town
New London, Texas changed America forever—and most people have never heard why. New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs tells the true story behind the deadliest school disaster in American history. On March 18, 1937, nearly 300 students and...
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#171
July 13 · 32 min
Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End
Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster becomes even more disturbing after investigators uncover what really happened on May 18, 1927. Most people know the explosion. Almost nobody knows...
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#170
July 6 · 31 min
Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children
Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster begins with an almost impossible fact: for months, children attended class directly above explosives hidden beneath their school. On May 18, 1927, the...
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#169
June 29 · 32 min
Buried Beneath the Perfect Suburb: The Love Canal Disaster
Love Canal: The American Dream That Poisoned America is one of the most shocking true crime history and environmental disaster stories in American history. What began as a quiet neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York became one of the nation's...
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#168
June 22 · 33 min
Lily Dale's Secret: Why Thousands Still Seek the Dead | Yore Town
Lily Dale's Forgotten Mystery | Yore Town Lily Dale's Forgotten Mystery takes us to a tiny community in western New York where thousands of people still travel hoping to hear from loved ones who have died. This is the true crime history, spiritual...
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#167
June 15 · 36 min
Dryden NY: Why Tragedy Kept Finding This Town | Yore Town
Dryden Mystery: Inside the Village of the Damned explores one of the most disturbing chapters in New York true crime history. For nearly a decade, the small town of Dryden, New York became the center of a string of murders, disappearances, suspicious...
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#166
June 8 · 33 min
Black Donnellys: The Family Nobody Would Save | Yore Town
Black Donnellys: The Family Nobody Would Save is the chilling true crime history of a family whose name became synonymous with fear, violence, and controversy in rural Ontario. This forgotten mystery explores how decades of feuds, rumors, and...
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#165
June 1 · 32 min
Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? | Yore Town
Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? | Yore Town Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? That's the question that has haunted this abandoned Alaskan settlement for decades. In this true crime history and unsolved mystery deep dive, we investigate the...
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#164
May 25 · 32 min
Ant Hill Kids Mystery: Canada’s Forgotten Nightmare | Yore Town Podcast
Deep in rural Quebec, the Burnt River Horror became one of the most disturbing true crime history cases Canada has ever seen. The Ant Hill Kids cult began as a peaceful back-to-the-land commune before transforming into a nightmare filled with...
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#163
May 18 · 33 min
Elisa Lam Mystery That Broke the Internet | Yore Town
Elisa Lam Mystery That Broke the Internet | Yore Town The Elisa Lam mystery became one of the most disturbing true crime history cases the internet has ever seen. What began as a missing person case inside Los Angeles’ infamous Cecil Hotel quickly...
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#162
May 11 · 27 min
Elisa Lam Mystery: What the Cecil Hotel Doesn’t Want Told | Yore Town
Elisa Lam Mystery: The Hotel That Hides Secrets | Yore Town The Elisa Lam mystery is one of the most haunting unsolved mystery cases in modern true crime history—and it all leads back to a hotel with a past as dark as the story itself. In 2013, Elisa...
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