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If you are a fan of strange and mysterious hand-crafted original tales...well, we are in good company together because that is what the Dust and Echoes Podcast is all about. Original stories from the mind of award-winning filmmaker and writer James Cawley.
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THE LUNAR ALIBI - WAS THE MOON LANDING FAKE? (opens the original)
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Did We Really Land on the Moon? On July 20th, 1969, thirty thousand feet above the Sea of Tranquility, the Eagle's guidance computer threw an error nobody on the ground had trained for. Program alarm 1202. The machine had less processing power than a musical greeting card, and it was overloading while the lander fell toward an alien world at three thousand miles an hour. Neil Armstrong's voice stayed flat. His heart rate did not. It climbed past a hundred, past a hundred and twenty, and spiked n
REST STOP: A Desert Horror Story About the One Rule You Never Break (opens the original)
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Seventeen-year-old Tyler is three hours into his first solo cattle run across the high desert, alone on a two-lane at one in the morning, when he pulls off at a rest area set half a mile back from the highway. One concrete building. No windows. No lights for fifty miles. Something knocks on the door. His grandfather taught him one rule for country this empty: if something calls to you out here, and you know there is no one who could be calling, you do not answer it. You give it nothing. It canno
The Woman & The Water: The True Story of La Llorona, the Weeping Ghost of the Rio Grande (opens the original)
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La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, is the most enduring ghost of the American Southwest... a woman in white who drifts along the rivers and the irrigation ditches at night, weeping for the children she drowned, and who will take yours if she mistakes them for her own. But she was never one ghost...she is very misunderstood. In this episode of Dust and Echoes, James Cawley digs down through five centuries of real history beneath her: a weeping woman recorded as an omen in the streets of Tenochtitlan
HE CALLED HIMSELF NO ONE - The Unsolved Disappearance of Everett Ruess in the Utah Canyon Country (opens the original)
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The Mystery of Everett Ruess and the NEMO 1934 Carving in the Escalante Desert Everett Ruess was a twenty year old artist and wanderer who walked alone into the canyon country of southern Utah in November of 1934 and was never seen again. His disappearance has never been solved, and it remains one of the great mysteries of the Utah Canyonlands and the American West. Months later a search party climbed down into a remote gulch off the Escalante River and found his two burros alive in a hand-built
THE BLOODY BENDERS: AMERICA'S FIRST SERIAL KILLER FAMILY: The Kansas Murder Inn and the Killers Who Vanished (opens the original)
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The warmest table on the Kansas frontier was bait. This is the true story of the killers the prairie swallowed whole. The Bloody Benders ran a small inn and general store on the lonely Osage Trail in 1870s Labette County, Kansas, and for two years, travelers who stopped there for a hot meal were never seen alive again. Behind a hanging canvas curtain, a family of self proclaimed Spiritualists turned frontier hospitality into a killing floor, and buried at least eleven people in the orchard behin
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