Chris learns about a fire that has been burning for the past 59 years and is predicted to burn for between another 100-250 years. The mad thing is, it could have been completely avoided if a certain city council didn’t dump rubbish down a mine shaft and then purposely set fire to it… In real terms, it means a city in Pennsylvania has been all-but abandoned, whilst graffiti artists have covered the local highway in, well, graffiti!

Meanwhile, Harrison found out about an audacious World War II plan dreamt up by the British secret service called ‘Operation Mincemeat’. This wartime mission was so insane, Harrison has decided to split his part of the podcast across two episodes!

Harrison’s Sources

Casablanca Conference

Operation Barclay

Trout memo

John Henry Godfrey

Ian Fleming

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler

What was Operation Mincemeat?

Chris’ Sources

Mining 

Total assets of BHP from 2009 to 2020 

Coal and Air Pollution 

Coal Fatalities for 1900 Through 2020 

Who Were the Molly Maguires? 

A Town with a Hot Problem Decides Not to Move Mountains but to Move Itself 

A Walk in the Woods (book) 

This Mine Fire Has Been Burning For Over 50 Years 

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