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May 4, 1997: The Tampa Triangle - Capt. Bill Miller
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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Captain Bill Miller, a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain and author of Tampa Triangle Dead Zone, takes listeners on a journey through one of Florida's most paranormally active regions. The episode opens with sailor Robert Bodell recounting how he lost three days from his meticulous ship's log during a delivery trip from Tampa to Long Island, a case of missing time he has never been able to explain.
Miller details the deadly four-mile stretch of Tampa Bay shipping channel where three major maritime disasters claimed over 58 lives, including the 1980 collision that sank the Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn and the 1980 freighter strike that toppled the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. He describes the ghost of a Greyhound bus that plunged from the broken bridge, still seen by fishermen in early morning fog with passengers staring forward and a woman in the last window waving mechanically. Other apparitions include a vanishing blonde hitchhiker on the rebuilt Skyway and a romantic ghost fisherman visible only to women.
The conversation spans spontaneous human combustion, the scientifically unexplained immolation of Mary Harder Reeser in 1951, a sunken Nazi U-boat with tanned corpses preserved in petroleum fumes, chupacabra sightings near Tampa Bay, and a massive Virgin Mary apparition on a Clearwater glass building that drew over a million visitors.
Miller details the deadly four-mile stretch of Tampa Bay shipping channel where three major maritime disasters claimed over 58 lives, including the 1980 collision that sank the Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn and the 1980 freighter strike that toppled the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. He describes the ghost of a Greyhound bus that plunged from the broken bridge, still seen by fishermen in early morning fog with passengers staring forward and a woman in the last window waving mechanically. Other apparitions include a vanishing blonde hitchhiker on the rebuilt Skyway and a romantic ghost fisherman visible only to women.
The conversation spans spontaneous human combustion, the scientifically unexplained immolation of Mary Harder Reeser in 1951, a sunken Nazi U-boat with tanned corpses preserved in petroleum fumes, chupacabra sightings near Tampa Bay, and a massive Virgin Mary apparition on a Clearwater glass building that drew over a million visitors.