Route 1 Unknown

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Route 1 runs nearly 2,400 miles, from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida, through fishing towns, battlefields, old inns, and places the maps forgot. Route 1 Unknown is a documentary podcast about the mysteries along that road: ghost stories and unexplained disappearances, shipwrecks and lighthouses, folklore and forgotten disasters. Each episode follows the evidence, separates the record from the legend, and is honest about what we still don’t know. Hosted by Brian. Drive carefully. Route 1 is longer than you think.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    The Disappearance of Judge Lansing

    On December 12, 1829, a seventy-five-year-old man walked out of a hotel on Broadway to mail letters at the Cortlandt Street docks. He never came back.His name was John Lansing Jr. In 1787 he walked out of the Constitutional Convention rather than sign on to a government he believed was too powerful. He rose to Chief Justice and Chancellor of New York. And in 1800, he presided over the murder trial where Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr sat at the same defense table.No body. No witness. Three theories, and two hundred years of silence.Part two of our Manhattan diptych. Start with The Manhattan Well Murder if you haven't heard it.Chapters0:00 The Door3:13 Albany5:14 Philadelphia11:11 The Bench14:30 The Trial19:20 The Curse21:53 Thirty Years24:57 The Search27:28 Three Theories34:17 What Remains37:57 Two Doors40:36 The Road43:56 Outro#Route1Unknown #JudgeLansing #FoundingFathers #ManhattanDiptych

    The Disappearance of Judge Lansing

  2. Nov 2

    The Manhattan Well Murder

    Beneath a clothing store in SoHo, under a glass panel in the floor, there is a stone well. In January of 1800, the body of a twenty-two-year-old woman named Elma Sands was pulled out of it. Her neck had been broken before she went into the water. The man accused of killing her was defended by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, two bitter rivals sitting at the same table for the last time. The trial ran through the night. The jury deliberated for five minutes. And when the verdict was read, Elma's cousin Catherine Ring stood up, pointed at Hamilton, and cursed them all. Within four years, Hamilton was dead, shot by Burr at Weehawken. Within thirty, the judge who presided over the trial walked out of a hotel on Broadway one December evening and was never seen again. No one was ever convicted. The well is still there. Part one of a Manhattan pair. Next: the disappearance of Judge John Lansing. Chapters00:00 The Well04:00 Greenwich Street08:51 The Search11:33 The Spectacle14:51 Prosecution and Defense19:17 The Curse21:01 The Fates26:21 The Judge in the Dark29:11 The Well Rediscovered32:02 Unanswered Questions34:54 The Road Remembers Sources and further readingWilliam Coleman, Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks (1800)Paul Collins, Duel with the Devil (2013)New-York Historical Society and Library of Congress archives Route 1 Unknown is a Pause and Play Media production. Drive carefully. Route 1 is longer than you think.

    The Manhattan Well Murder

  3. Oct 28

    Old House Woods

    A motorist on a fog-lined road in Mathews County, Virginia, stopped for an armored figure in his headlights. The figure asked for directions. "Is this the King's highway? I've lost my ship."Fifty acres of pine forest on the Chesapeake Bay. Three hundred years of witnesses. A phantom ship sailing above the trees. Skeleton soldiers carrying lanterns. A woman in white who screams before the storm. Three competing legends. None can be verified. None will go away.Episode 2 of our Halloween pair. Episode 1, The Last Vampire of New England, is out now.Chapters0:00 The Question on the Road4:07 Three Legends10:24 The Phantom Ship15:41 The Soldiers20:57 The Voices of Mathews County27:26 What the Explanations Explain31:06 What the Explanations Miss34:49 The Storm Woman38:45 The Drive Home42:08 Outro

    Old House Woods

  4. Oct 28

    The Last Vampire of New England

    In 1892, the same decade as the first automobile, the people of Exeter, Rhode Island exhumed the body of a nineteen-year-old girl. Her name was Mercy Lena Brown. They cut out her heart, burned it on a rock, and fed the ashes to her dying brother. Five years later, Bram Stoker published Dracula.This is the story of the last documented American vampire exhumation, and the family it destroyed. A community dying of tuberculosis. A doctor who said the ritual was nonsense, and was overruled. And a clipping about Mercy Brown that turned up among Stoker's research papers.Chapters00:00 Cold Open03:39 The Terror of Consumption09:12 George Brown's Losses13:01 The Community's Demand17:19 March 17, 189220:21 The Newspaper Storm24:26 The Long Shadow27:30 The Dracula Thread30:52 Unanswered Questions33:12 Closing MeditationRoute 1 Unknown investigates the stories that live along America's oldest highway. Drive carefully. Route 1 is longer than you think.

    The Last Vampire of New England
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About

Route 1 runs nearly 2,400 miles, from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida, through fishing towns, battlefields, old inns, and places the maps forgot. Route 1 Unknown is a documentary podcast about the mysteries along that road: ghost stories and unexplained disappearances, shipwrecks and lighthouses, folklore and forgotten disasters. Each episode follows the evidence, separates the record from the legend, and is honest about what we still don’t know. Hosted by Brian. Drive carefully. Route 1 is longer than you think.

Information

  • Creator
    Paws and Play Media
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Paws and Play Media
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    Route 1 Unknown