Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-01-20
Books mentioned on Could airplanes be haunted?
More than a century since the Wright brothers made history at Kitty Hawk, aircraft still seem like a stunning, new -- and potentially terrifying -- invention. It's no wonder that flight, like so many other forms of transit, has become embedded in the the human psyche.
Ben Bowlin discussed The Langoliers by Stephen King, The Ghost of Flight 401 by John Grant Fuller, and From the Captain to the Colonel by Robert J. Serling.
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The Langoliers
Discussed“Have you guys ever read The Langoliers by Stephen King? Yeah, there's That's a cool plane time travel-y, timey-wimey kind of story.”
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The Ghost of Flight 401
Discussed“Um a researcher by the name of John Fuller actually wrote a book about this. Came out in 1976 called The Ghost of Flight 401, and he said that the crash was only the beginning of of this tragedy.”
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From the Captain to the Colonel
Discussed“We found a We found a book called From the Captain to the Colonel, an informal history of Eastern Airlines, written by a guy named Robert J. Serling. And in this book the the CEO of Eastern Airlines at the time, a former astronaut by the way, named Frank Borman, says these ghost stories are garbage.”
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