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The Halifax Explosion (Entry 562.JB0409)

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The Biggest Disaster in the Western Hemisphere

It wiped out the town. A lot of people lost, a lot of family members. Saint paul's church has an iron spike that just got imbedded in a doorway that's still there. The city hall clock, very much like back to the future, is forever stopped at nine o four a m and they could fix it. Even weird, more weirda upstairs, there's a stained glass window that supposedly you can see the shadow of the profile of a church deacon who was standing there,. He didn't get vaporized, but he got, he got dyed, and his shadow is still on the window.

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