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FOUND IN THE FOOTNOTES  CHARLES DICKENS AND THE STAPLEHURST RAIL CRASH
Podcast Script – Charles Dickens and the Staplehurst Rail Crash
As many of you know,I'm a huge fan of classic literature and four of our 1001 podcasts are packed with 
My renderings of  short stories and novels from the greats like Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, and 
Charles Dickens- just search 1001 Classic Short Stories and you'll see what I mean.  Charles Dickens gave 
usGreat Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol,
And many more …
This is a mostly unknown story about Charles Dickens which I had never known-- until I found it in the footnotes.
Picture this.
It's a warm June evening in 1865. The countryside of Kent is slipping
past the windows of a train bound for London. Inside one of the first-
class carriages sits one of the most famous writers in the English-
speaking world — Charles Dickens. He's tired, he's thinking about
deadlines, and beside him is something priceless: the handwritten
manuscript for a new novel, Our Mutual Friend, not yet finished, not yet
safely delivered to the public.
Then — without warning — the world breaks apart.
The bridge ahead has collapsed. The train plunges into open space.
Carriages snap loose and tumble into the river below. Iron screams,
wood splinters, steam hisses into chaos. In moments, what was a quiet
journey becomes one of the worst railway disasters of the Victorian age.
And somehow — impossibly — Charles Dickens survives.
He climbs out of a shattered carriage suspended over the river. He tends
to the wounded. He witnesses death at arm's length. And before he
leaves the wreckage, before he allows himself to process the shock, he
does something extraordinary:
He climbs back into the ruins to retrieve his manuscript.
Tonight's episode is about that moment — the Staplehurst rail crash,
the night Charles Dickens cheated death, and how a single train accident
quietly reshaped the final years of one of literature's greatest voices.

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In this episode we discuss the spiritualism movement that lit up the country (but especially northwest and central New York) between 1840 and the 1920's, including the Fox sisters, who were fraudulent mediums who made lots of money cheating bereaved war widows and moms. Spiritualism and Ouija boards rely upon communing with spirits of the dead for advice and counsel. We also cover the history and legacy of the Ouija Board, which sprang from the spiritualism movement and is still purchased by many as a child's game today.
 
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The Winter Olympics are coming FEB 6th- and here's a littleknown story (found in the footnotes) about how they used to give medals for art- you know, painting, writing..creative stuff...provided the art reflected something to do with the Olympics.  Its an interewsting story that not many people are aware of so enjoy and share with friends- Thanks!
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