
MFM Minisode 333
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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The Hidden Treasure of the Virgin Islands
Virgin ships that severed wreckage in those unforgiving rocky waters were also frequently plundered by local communities in the 18th and 19th centuries. "My parents told us this with gusto as they filled our heads with tales of pirates shipwrecks and of course treasure" One day during a trip we were wandering around a stretch of grass upon a windblown cliff. There were a lot of hollows in the ground which my parents informed me had been used as a part of a complex hidden system to store smuggled goods. They suggested that I look in some of them just in case something had been left behind. Well imagine my shock when I stuck my hand into one pulled out a couple
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