Transcript

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On a summer morning in twelve eighty-four, the gate of a German town stood open. A piper in bright colors walked out through it, playing. Behind him came the children, one hundred and thirty of them.
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A century later, a clerk wrote a single line in the town's books. "It is one hundred years since our children left." This is Midnight Signals.
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In eighteen twenty-eight, a boy stumbled into a square in Nuremberg holding a letter. He could barely walk. He could barely speak.
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And for the rest of his short life, someone seemed determined to make sure he never told anyone where he had come from.
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In nineteen seventy, in a frozen valley in Norway, hikers found a woman's body, burned, with the labels cut from every piece of her clothing. She had checked into hotels under eight different names.
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To this day, no one knows the real one. And in eighteen seventy-two, sailors boarded a ship drifting in the middle of the Atlantic. The cargo was there. The food was there. The crew was gone.
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Season one of Midnight Signals: Strangers. People who appeared from nowhere and people who vanished without a trace, and the questions they left behind. New episodes every week.
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I'm Russ Chamberlain, and in every silence, there is a signal. [music]