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Fresh Hell Podcast

E76: MACABRE- The Empire State Building

Fresh Hell Podcast

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Annie & Johanna discuss the weird, wonderful and often macabre history of the Empire State Building, including its record breaking construction, infamous and tragic suicides, the B-25 bomber crash, seances, and more. This episode will have you ready with disturbing facts to delight your friends and family with the next time you visit the Big Apple!

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. Fresh Hell contained stories of a disturbing

0:16.8

and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.

0:20.5

Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.

0:24.0

Hi, I'm Annie in the States.

0:30.0

And I'm Yohanna in Austria and this is Fresh Hell, your favorite international podcast.

0:37.0

We hope.

0:38.0

We have a quick update.

0:39.0

We have a slight correction from last week when I mistakenly said that Apollo is the god of war.

0:44.7

Yeah Apollo isn't the god of war, it's Arles.

0:47.3

I know, I know, it's Ares, but I said Apollo, who is of course the Sun God and also

0:51.8

Archery, so that makes sense with the arrows but neither of us caught it.

0:55.4

But my friend Aaron did thanks to her son having just on a project on the old gods.

0:59.9

So yeah, we need like a nap, a week-long nap on a beach with someone bringing us frozen beverages, I think.

1:07.0

We really do, yeah. Thanks Erin and thanks Erin's son for catching this.

1:11.0

Yeah, thank you very much. So I just recently read a story about

1:16.2

the Empire State Building and it made me wonder it was like how have I never heard this story

1:21.0

before and so I sent the link to you and I don't think you'd heard of it before and then that got us talking about other aspects of the Empire State Building. And so this is going to be an episode. is it the first or is it the second?

1:33.6

Was the St. Augustine Lighthouse the first?

1:35.6

But an episode where we talk about the Macabre history of a place.

1:40.2

There are so many places to cover. We mentioned already that we really want to do an episode about the Chelsea and the Cecil,

1:47.2

but we could also talk about the Dakota building, El-Kadras.

1:50.7

Oh yeah, the Tower of London, the Winchester Winchester Mystery House you get the picture there's a lot and we really want to talk about the stuff that the usual tour guides aren't going to mention to the general public the kind of facts that the PR people at these historic sites save for a special haunted tour that you pay extra for, if it's offered, you know.

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