File 0005-0006: Tunguska Detectives of Moonville
11/19/2020
Pt 1: November 20th 2020 / Pt 2: November 27th 2020
In this two part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:
- The Moonville Tunnel: Moonville is a ghost town in Ohio. Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories.
- The Origins of Private Detectives: Eugène-François Vidocq was a French criminal who lived a wild life with multiple stints in prison, the army and a failed paper factory who somehow became the father of modern criminology and the private eye
- The Tunguska Event: On the morning of June 30th 1908 a massive explosion occurred over the sparsely occupied eastern Siberian taiga. It flattened 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km or 830 s miles, nearly the size of Tokyo. Despite thousands of investigations, no consensus has been reached on what exactly happened all those years ago.
Sources
Sources below are a sample, for the full list visit the HEX file on the topic
The Moonville Tunnel
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonville,_Ohio
- https://www.moonvilletunnel.net/
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moonville-tunnel
- https://ohiodnr.gov/wps/portal/gov/odnr/go-and-do/plan-a-visit/find-a-property/moonville-tunnel
- https://www.ohioexploration.com/structures/moonvilletunnel/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_order_operation
The Origins of Private Detectives
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Eugene-Vidocq
- https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/eugene-francois-vidocq-french-criminal-detective/
- https://thrillingdetective.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/eugene-francois-vidocq/
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/vidocq-eugene-francois
The Tunguska Event
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/03/10/comet-meteor-asteroid-heres-how-to-tell-the-difference/#:~:text=Comet%3A%20A%20body%20of%20ice,diameter%20and%20orbits%20the%20sun.&text=It%20originates%20from%20a%20comet,called%20a%20%E2%80%9Cshooting%20star.%E2%80%9D
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbolide