Coffee With Jeff

On March 28, 1933, a plane called “City of Liverpool” crashed killing all aboard. There is some question, even today, on whether this was just a horrible accident, caused by a careless smoker, or if it was a deliberate act of sabotage by a dentist named Dr. Albert Voss. Today is both, the story of the tragedy and my search to find out what happened. Show notes and links: 1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash (wikipedia.org) Fatal accidents to British aircraft overseas 1930 (rcawsey.co.uk) 05 Apr 1933 – MR. ALBERT VOSS. (nla.gov.au) 1933 imperial airways diksmuide crash | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing – eBooks (gutenberg.org) Sabotage passagiersvliegtuig – Gazet van Turnhout (gazetvanturnhout.be) 1933 Plane Crash Articles (guise.me.uk) A Magazine for Aviators, Pilots and Adventurers (historicwings.com) Violence in the Skies: A History of Aircraft Hijacking and Bombing – Philip Baum (google.com) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In the second episode of Celluloid of the strange & Unusual, I bring you my thoughts on three more films, Life of an American Fireman (1906), Harold and Maude (1971) and Daisies (1966). All three of these films a really love and thing are important. Show notes and links: Life of an American Fireman (1903) – Edwin S. Porter | George S. Fleming | Thomas Edison (youtube.com) Daisies (Sedmikrasky) Full Movie 1966 (youtube.com) Old Man Kelley On Film (youtube.com) Colin Higgins, Film Director, 47, Creator of ‘Harold and Maude’ (nytimes.com) 10 Perfectly Paired Facts About ‘Harold and Maude’ (mentalfloss.com) Bud Cort: ‘Harold and Maude was a blessing and a curse’ | Film (theguardian.com) ‘Daisies,’ From the Czech Director Vera Chytilova, at BAM (nytimes.com) Interview: Vera Chytilova | Film (theguardian.com) Daisies (film) – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Life of an American Fireman (wikipedia.org) Harold and Maude – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

There is an area in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City known as Coney Island. At its height, along with many independent amusements parks, Coney Island had three major parks, all competing with each other; Luna Park, Steeplechase Park, and Dreamland. Dreamland, the subject of today’s show, was built in 1904 and designed to be bigger and better, with elegance far beyond the noise and chaos of Luna Park. It would be gone seven years later Completely gone. Show notes and links: Coney Island – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Coney Island – Ric/Ken Burns American Experience (youtube.com) Luna Park, Coney Island (1903) (wikipedia.org) Steeplechase Park – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Dreamland (amusement park) – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Coney Island – Dreamland. (westland.net) How a Coney Island sideshow advanced medicine for premature babies (pbs.org) Coney Island History | Dreamland (heartofconeyisland.com) Long Beach New York – I Love LBNY.Com (ilovelbny.com) ★ Support this podcas

In the late 19th century a new industry began, filmmaking. In the beginning, it was open to anyone, man or women, who wanted to try. That would change once big money got involved, and some would be pushed aside and forgotten about. Are you ready to hear that story of a remarkable woman named Alice Guy Blaché who helped create the art of film and how Hollywood and history left her behind? Today we have her story. Show notes and links: The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995) (youtube.com) The Cabbage Fairy (1896) – 1st Female Filmmaker – ALICE GUY BLACHE – La Fee aux Choux (youtube.com) “Falling Leaves” (1912) silent film dir by Alice Guy Blaché – piano score by Ben Model (youtube.com) Alice Guy-Blaché – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Alice Guy Blaché – Women Film Pioneers Project (columbia.edu) Home | Alice Guy Blaché (aliceguyblache.com) Fort Lee: The Film Town by Richard Koszarski, Paperback (barnesandnoble.com) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

There was a car that you probably never heard of, a car that was all set to revolution the auto industry that never made it into production. It was going to be a lightweight, fuel-efficient and inexpensive car, weighing in at 1,000 pounds, would sell for less than $2,000 and would get an amazing 70 miles per gallon. This car that was set to transform the auto industry was called The Dale. A slick, six-page, fill-color brochure showed the futuristic, banana-yellow Dale in all its glory. The cover of the brochure read, “The new 70 mpg Dale. Dollar for dollar, the best car ever built! Inside were even more remarkable claims, “ The most exciting new car of this century” “The first Space Age automobile” “Design and built like it’s ready to be driven to the moon.” Show notes and links: Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation (wikipedia.org) James Dean’s Killer Porsche, NASCAR’s Fastest Monkey, Bonnie and Clyde’s Getaway Car, and More: Matt Stone, Preston Lerner: 9780760342602: Amazon.com: Books (amazon.com) One

In 1976, a made for television mini-series called Sybil premiered on NBC. It was based on a book of the same name; a non-fiction account written by Flora Rheta Schreiber about psychoanalyst Cornelia B. Wilbur and her treatment of a woman named Sybil Dorsett, who was reported to have 16 distinct personalities. Sybil, it turned out, was Shirley Ardell Mason. Both the book and the film were a great success with its shocking and disturbing true story and yet, there have been many who have questioned the book and the story of Sybil and her 15 other selves. Show notes and links: Old Man Kelley On Film (youtube.com) The Hysteria of Multiple Personality Disorder | (spoliamag.com) Famous Psychiatric Patient Sybil Discovered as Shirley Mason Disappears – Minnesota Monthly – March 2012 (minnesotamonthly.com) Unmasking Sybil (newsweek.com) Real ‘Sybil’ Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake : NPR (npr.org) Sybil: A woman with 16 multiple personalities (booksatvioletcrush.com) A Girl Not Named Sybil (nytimes.com)

On the first show of the year, I look at three films that you may mot have seen. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916), The Holy Mountain (1973), and Spider Baby (1968). Show notes and links: 1916: John Emerson – The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish (Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love) (youtube.com) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (wikipedia.org) The Holy Mountain (1973)- Blu-Ray 1080p- Legendado [Multi Subs] (youtube.com) The Holy Mountain (1973 film) (wikipedia.org) Alejandro Jodorowsky – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) SPIDER BABY (1964) – Full Length horror movie (youtube.com) The Official Home of Spider Baby (spiderbabyonline.com) Spider Baby – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This is Coffee With Jeff’s last show… of 2016. Imagine an old man who does a podcast who decides to travel down memory lane and talk about the toys of his youth? Will the younger listeners roll their eyes and listen to something else? On today’s show I am going to talk about three toys that were incredibly popular in my day; Silly Putty, The Magic 8-Ball, and the Slinky. I am sure that anyone over the age of 40 has played with some or all of these at one time or another. So, I hope all of you youngsters will forgive me for this episode, but this old man does have a tendency to ramble on, you know. Just be glad I don’t talk about my aches and pains. Show notes and links: Silly Putty – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Invention of Silly Putty (bcsd.org) Earl L. Warrick, 91, a Dow Corning Creator of Silly Putty (nytimes.com) Robot Check (amazon.com) A Brief History of the Magic 8 Ball (mentalfloss.com) Behind the Magic 8-Ball – Neatorama (neatorama.com) Slinky – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) ★ Support this podc

During the American Civil War; James McClintock, Baxter Watson and Horace Lawson Hunley designed and built a submarine to attack Union boats. The sub had an eight-man crew; one to steer the ship and seven to turn the propeller. And – warning! – it doesn’t turn out well. This is the story of the H.T. Hunley! Show notes and links: Aliens draining solar energy? NASA captures images of monster UFOs circling around the sun : Science/Health : Headlines & Global News (hngn.com) Anaconda Plan – Civil War Academy (civilwaracademy.com) H. L. Hunley (submarine) – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Submarine – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Baxter Watson « The USS Flier Project (ussflierproject.com) American Diver – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) AMERICAN DIVER submarine « The USS Flier Project (ussflierproject.com) Friends of the Hunley (hunley.org) Captain’s “Lucky Coin” Found in Civil War Submarine (nationalgeographic.com) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In Hollywood, a name alone can attract a big paycheck. It wasn’t always that way. There was a time in the early days of filmmaking that the big studios wouldn’t allow the actors name to be known. They feared their actors becoming stars, because they knew the consequences. This changed with one person, a female actor named Florence Lawrence, who is credited at the first film star in America. She was know as “The Biograph Girl” and she made 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career. Show notes and links: Florence Lawrence – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Florence Lawrence: The First Movie Star (history.com) Florence Lawrence – Women Film Pioneers Project (columbia.edu) The first ever movie star: Florence Lawrence – Page 2 of 3 (queensofvintage.com) Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America’s First Movie Star (9780786430895): Kelly R. Brown: Books (amazon.com) Carl Laemmle, Sr. Biography | Fandango (fandango.com) Florence Lawrence: Automotive Inventor and the “World’s First Movi

Nancy Wake was born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia and became one of the people wanted by the Germans in France during World War 2. They called her the White Mouse and she was forced to flee to England, only one step ahead of the Nazis! After training as a saboteur, she returned to France to join the French resistance as a fighting force. This is her amazing tale. Show notes and links: UFO Spotted During the Supermoon? : News : Nature World News (natureworldnews.com) Nancy Wake- Codename ‘The White Mouse'(1987) Part 1 of 6 (youtube.com) Tribute to Nancy Wake – YouTube (youtube.com) Nancy Wake @ moreorless.net.au (moreorless.net.au) Nancy Wake, Proud Spy and Nazi Foe, Dies at 98 (nytimes.com) Special Operations Executive – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Ian Garrow – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

His name was Robert V. Miller but he called himself “Count” Victor Lustig. He sold a machine to duplicate money, robbed money from a bank, was caught, and talked his way out of charges, and then escaped from an escape-proof jail! He was called the smoothest con man in the world but most people know his as the man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Show notes and links: Victor Lustig (angelfire.com) Victor Lustig and His Money Box Scams (awesomestories.com) Nicky Arnstein – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) “Count” Victor Lustig, 1920s and 30s Con Man and Public Enemy w/ Jeff Maysh – A True Crime History Podcast (acast.com) The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. | History (smithsonianmag.com) Victor Lustig – Criminal – Biography.com (biography.com) The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower (todayifoundout.com) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Linda Burfield was born in 1867. After a failed marriage, she trained to be a doctor … sort of. She never actually went to school, yet she called herself Doctor Linda Hazzard and developed a health procedure using fasting to cure all types of health problems. Starvation was the key to health! And if patients starved to death, and many did, well; at least Linda got to keep all their money! Linda Hazzard was responsible for a least 14 deaths! Probably a lot more! Show notes and links: UFO Sighting Over Hawaii Triggers investigation Of Possible Hidden Alien Base : SCIENCE : Tech Times (techtimes.com) Bad Cat Productions – YouTube (youtube.com) Linda Hazzard – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Dr Hazzard (Linda Burfield Hazzard) Documentary (youtube.com) Starvation Heights (starvationheights.com) True Crime Stories: Linda Burfield Hazzard (truecrimediscussions.blogspot.com) Fasting for the Cure of Disease : Linda Burfield Hazzard : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (archive.org) Starvation Heights

The Blair Witch Project was the Brainchild of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez who, as early was 1993, found that they felt documentaries on paranormal phenomena were scarier than traditional horror films. They went out and rented such things like The Legend of Boggy Creek and Ancient Astronauts, documentary-style movies and began to wonder if hey could do something like that, something with found footage, something is the vain of Leonard Nimoy’s hosted In Search of… “We loved those,” Sanchez said. “Those grainy pictures of UFOs and Bigfoot? Those were a lot scarier than the movies.” This week I tell the story of the making of this film. Show notes and links: The Blair Witch Project: An oral history (theweek.com) Blair Witch Project Phenomenon: behind the scenes (1999) (youtube.com) The Making of The Blair Witch Project: Part 1 – Witch Pitch (dreadcentral.com) The Blair Witch Project – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Sticks and Stones: An Exploration of the Blair Witch Legend (youtube.com) Director recalls

It was the perfect great American success story; a down and out family man going from rags to riches with nothing more than his own ingenuity, inventing a game in his basement to support his family during the Depression. It was the story of the world’s most popular board game. Unfortunately, it was a lie. This week, we tell the story of Elizabeth J. “Lizzy” Magie; the real creator of the game! Show notes and links: Some see Bigfoot photo-bombing Michigan eagle’s nest cam (freep.com) Monopoly Was Invented By Charles Darrow (factmyth.com) Log In – The New York Times (nytimes.com) The Landlord’s Game – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) History of the board game Monopoly (wikipedia.org) A Primer on Henry George’s “Single Tax” (dollarsandsense.org) A place on the board (lady.co.uk) This Woman Invented Monopoly to Combat Greed (youtube.com) Mary Pilon: “The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind …” | Authors at Google (youtube.com) Anti-Monopoly – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Amazon.com: The Monopoli

His name was Charles Rolland Douglass but his friends called him Charley. In the late 50s, he created a machine that every American network needed, and he called it the Laff Box. If you watched television between 1960 and 1980, you’ve most likely heard his work. He was the guy that added the laughter and applause to sitcoms. You know his work as the laugh track or canned laughter. Show notes and links: Laugh track – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Charles Douglass – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Ben Glenn II, Television Historian – The Paris Review (theparisreview.org) Who’s Laughing Now? The History of the Sitcom Laugh Track (indiewire.com) Watch Full Episodes Online of Antiques Roadshow on PBS (pbs.org) The Mystery of the Laff Box – thebaronblog (wordpress.com) Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy: Kliph Nesteroff: 9780802123985: Amazon.com: Books (amazon.com) UFO sighting: NASA images show Martian ‘walled city’ ruins : Headlines : Head

As the age of 4 or 5 he read and fell in love with the H.G. Wells 1896 book The Island of Dr. Moreau, the story of a doctor who creates sentient beings from animals by the way of vivisection. Richard Stanley was disappointed in the previous two film adaptions of the work and dreamed that one day he would be able to make the film right. In 1996, he got his chance to make a big budget film Doctor Moreau. It didn’t go well! Show notes and links: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film) (wikipedia.org) Director Richard Stanley on Why His ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ Became Such a Notorious Flop | VICE (vice.com) Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau – Official Trailer – (2015) (youtube.com) Cheyenne Brando – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Nelson de la Rosa – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Richard Stanley (director) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Fired Genius Behind Disastrous ’96 Island of Dr. Moreau Vows an X-Rated Remake

Our story continues as Aleister Crowley began performing the seven magical rituals of The Rites of Eleusis. He soon joins the Ordo Templi Orientis, meets the mother of 1930’s filmmaker, Preston Sturges, travels to America to help—or not help—the Germans during World War 1, and eventually forms The Abbey of Thelema. All this and more the last episode on Aleister Crowley! Show notes and links: ☿ Aleister Crowley – Rites of Eleusis [Lecture – Part I of II] ☿ (youtube.com) Aleister Crowley ….did he really say people needed to sacrifice small male children?ll? (yahoo.com) Rites of Eleusis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Tiger-Woman: Betty May And The Abbey of Thelema (asketchofthepast.com) Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World by Gary Lachman — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists (goodreads.com) Aleister Crowley: Man, Myth & Magick (9781515228134): Steven Ashe: Books (amazon.com) A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, List

Our story continues as Aleister begins a normal life and a father and husband, only to take on an dangerous mountain climbing expedition that ends in tragedy, possibly kills two people in Calcutta, forms a new group called AA and does some questionable things with the poet Victor Neuburg and is sued by his od friend, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Show notes and links: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World: Gary Lachman: 9780399161902: Amazon.com: Books (amazon.com) Horatio Bottomley – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Collected PDF’s by Aleister Crowley (archive.org) Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick (thelemapedia.org) Victor Benjamin Neuburg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Aleister Crowley: Man, Myth & Magick (9781515228134): Steven Ashe: Books (amazon.com) Ordo Templi Orientis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

He was born Edward Alexander Crowley on the night of October 12 1875 during the height of the Victorian era in the town of Leamington in England. Aleister Crowley wrote in his diary: “I had arrived at the conclusion that the Plymouth Brethren were an exceptionally detestable crew. I wanted sin. A supreme spiritual sin. But hadn’t the slightest idea how to go about it. […] The Stockholm experience had allowed me to discover what I wanted to spend my time on. I would be an Adept in the Secret Arts, a Magus and through my own true will I could guarantee immortality and control the secret forces of nature.” There were three things Crowley to master at this point in his life; poetry, mountain climbing, and the search for spiritual truth. The Book of the Law. It would become Crowley’s most infamous works. It was a new order, or religion, that Crowley would be the master of – or the new prophet. It contained the line, “Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law.” Show notes and links: Sin & Sinners (littl