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• The Highest Fall

  From the moment Vesna Vulović saw her friend wearing a flight attendant uniform she knew the job was for her. Vesna loved travelling to different countries and meeting new people. January 25th, 1972 was a day like any other for flight attendant Vesna Vulovic - she checked her schedule and boarded JAT Flight 367 to Belgrade with a layover in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unbeknownst to the crew and passengers, a mid-flight attack would rip the plane apart, and Vesna would be the sole survivor of the incident and a 33,333 ft fall. Please review us in your favorite podcast app! :-) To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected]    Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/Marooned    Sources: “Too good to be true?” The Independent, Thu, Jan 26, 2012 ·Page 25 “woman survives 30,000ft fall” The Muskegon Chronicle, Fri, Jan 28, 1972 ·Page 1 "She's the luckiest girl alive" The Toronto Star Tue, Dec 26, 1972 ·Page 17 “Ex flight attendant survived 33,000-foot fall” Honolulu Star-Advertiser Sun, Dec 25, 2016 ·Page B6 "Stewardess survives plane crash" South Florida Sun Sentinel Sun, Dec 25, 2016 ·Page B4 Greenlight interview

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• The SOS Incident

  Two hikers get lost in a park in Japan and a very large SOS made of birch trees leads rescuers to the pair. But the two hikers swear they had nothing to do with the sign and a subsequent search reveals human remains and a disturbing audio recording left at the scene... Our website: https://visitmarooned.com

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• The Lost Girls Of Panama

  It’s not unusual for those in their early twenties to want to get out into the world and explore it. Plenty of young people have found themselves backpacking across foreign lands, sleeping in hostels and meeting strangers in strange places, that will become lifelong friends, sharing lifelong memories. But it’s dangerous. Let’s not forget that. Anything that fits the bill of adventure - must naturally be so.   To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected]    Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/Marooned    Sources:  MSNBC, How this journalist found herself in the middle of a Panamanian true crime story Koude Kaas Cold case blog (information compiled from various sources) News from Dutch investigators on the finding of the backpack and its content Cell phones record the last moments of the Dutch women Dutch women had no plans to leave their accommodations in Panama, says landlady Ouders Kris en Lisanne: Het voelde gelijk al niet - RTL LATE NIGHT Lost in the Wild 'Reddingsteam was dicht bij vermiste Kris en Lisanne in Panama' In den Kleinen Hap Imperfect Plan / 2 Daily Beast- The full story

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• Alexander Selkirk

  There are many similarities between the fictional stories of Robinson Crusoe and the Tom Hanks film, Castaway. Man becomes stranded on a deserted island, following a wreck. Man first struggles to survive, before becoming one with his surroundings, and thrives. Man is rescued, and finds himself missing life on the island. But there is one major similarity that is often overlooked, and that is that both of these critically acclaimed, fictional survival stories, are based on the real life Marooning of Alexander Selkirk. Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/europe/oddities_europe.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports_(1703_ship)#CITEREFFunnell1707 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk#Life_on_the_island http://www.voting.ukscientists.com/dorothy/robcru.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IegTcO1vY7M&t=612s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe by John Howell 1837 https://books.google.ca/books?id=bfAXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World by Captain Edward Cooke 1712 https://archive.org/details/voyagetosouthsea01cook/page/352/mode/2up?q=selkirk   To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected]    Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/Marooned 

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• Will To Live

  We admire those willing to put themselves in such peril with the interest of exploration and discovery in mind, but with those who choose it for fun? It’s hard for the rest of us to wrap our heads around.  Let’s take something common. SkyDiving.  It’s said you’ll never feel so alive! And that’s because… you’ll never feel so close to certain death. “But it’s safe!”, they’ll say. And to that I respond. I’m sure it is. Airplanes are safe too. Here’s the problem with both. If something small goes wrong… that’s a big problem.   Visit our website! visitmarooned.com   To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected]    Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/Marooned 

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