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The People's Potluck: The London Beer Flood, Elmer McCurdy and Daniel E. Sickles

Podcast: Profiles In Eccentricity
Published: Mar 27, 2026
Duration seconds: 5608
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Summary

This week the listeners take the lads through 3 tales of oddity! The London Beer Flood of 1814 is a deadly freak accident that claims 8 lives! Elmer McCurdy is a dead bank robber who becomes more famous as a corpse! Daniel E Sickles gets away with murder in front of the White House before he nearly costs the Union the battle of Gettysburg!