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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Legend Of James Bartley, Who Was Supposedly Swallowed By A Whale
Description: Supposedly this month in 1891 a sailor named James Bartley was swallowed by a whale and lived! But The Straight Dope took a closer look and found this story was almost certainly too good to be true. Plus: this week in Saranac Lake, New York, near Lake Placid, it’s the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival.
The Straight Dope (Chicago Reader)
Saranac Lake Winter Carnival
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