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Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster

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The Walking Ghosts of Hiroshima

These walking ghosts, as the doctor called them, had been created by the two-fold power of the atomic bomb. See while the thermal flash had instantly blistered, burned, and loosened their skin, the following shockwave had torn that blistered skin loose but not ripped it from their bodies altogether. As one witness put it, watching these people walk into the river was like watching a parade of ghosts being swept away like garbage.

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