Hi all, welcome back (again) - sorry it’s a week later than planned… a few ongoing voice issues from the cold. This week we conclude the tale of Sidney Reilly and the ‘Red Terror.’

Sources Include:

R.H. Bruce-Lockhart ‘Memoirs of a British Agent’ Sidney Reilly + Pepita Bobadilla ‘ Adventures of a British Master Spy’ James Palmer ‘The Bloody White Baron’

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Hi all, welcome back - sorry it’s a week later than planned… I had a nasty cold. This week we’re in Russia just after the October Revolution. The Bolsheviks have taken over, plunging the nation even further into disarray. They’re determined to exit the First World War.

Britain, knowing this would be disastrous for their war with Germany need a hero to go in there and upset the apple cart - the kind of talented, yet completely amoral man Ian Fleming would draw on years later when crafting his best known invention - James Bond.

This week, part one of two: Who was Sidney Reilly, and how did Russia find herself in this mess?

Sources Include:

R.H. Bruce-Lockhart ‘Memoirs of a British Agent’ Pepita Bobadilla & Sidney Reilly ‘ Adventures of a British Master Spy’ This ‘Spycraft 101’ episode Featuring Giles Milton

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Hi all, Happy Holidays! This year I’ve got a ghost story for you all. Today we travel to Greenbrier County, West Virginia in 1897.

Sources Include:

Again this week I’ve gone from a handful of online articles, a few online genealogy pages - and a couple of podcast episodes.

Including…

‘How The ‘Greenbrier Ghost’ Helped Convict a West Virginia Murderer in 1897’ by Joey Rather. This website on ghosts in West Virginia. ‘Can We ‘See’ Dead People?’ By Mark Shelvock. ‘The Greenbrier Ghost’ by Brian Dunning. Zona Heaster Shoe’s ‘Family Search’ genealogy page. Erasmus Stribbling Shoe’s listing on Find a Grave.

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