Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Introducing... Unexplained: Lying in Wait

October 27, 2026·35 min
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This episode comes to you from Unexplained, the podcast that explores mysterious and haunting true stories. In 2009, during the war in Afghanistan, eight marines are tasked with occupying an isolated outpost known as The Rock. For those marines, the war is going to become stranger than any of them could have imagined. Unexplained is available wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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