Notorious Nellie and the St Louis Baby Fraud

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  • @roygaisser9230
    @roygaisser9230 4 місяці тому +22

    THAT was a dandy, Mr. Guy! It had more characters and unexpected plot twists than a Brit murder mystery. Thanks so much for the content you lay bare.

  • @JesseOaks-ef9xn
    @JesseOaks-ef9xn 4 місяці тому +74

    I imagine the judge Rush H Limbaugh mentioned in this story was the grandfather of a man who made quite a splash in AM radio. Rush Hudson Limbaugh I and his grandson Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +62

      Yes, it was the famous broadcaster’s grandfather.

    • @SafetySpooon
      @SafetySpooon 4 місяці тому +18

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannel This reminds me of the coincidence (compounded by being from the same time period, & concerning the same crime) of the famous General Norman Schwarzkopf being the son of one of the police who investigated the Lindbergh kidnapping.

    • @davidcampbell4465
      @davidcampbell4465 4 місяці тому +14

      I remember Rush Limbaugh mentioning in a couple of his broadcasts that he was from Cape Girardeau, Mo. If my memory serves...

    • @brucealanwilson4121
      @brucealanwilson4121 4 місяці тому

      @@SafetySpooon There was a rumor that he was also related to the opera single Elisabeth Shhwartzkopff.
      Their families came from the same county in SE Poland, but the spelling is different. They may have been distantly related, but not enough to matter.

    • @katemaloney4296
      @katemaloney4296 4 місяці тому +5

      ​@@davidcampbell4465 Your memory serves correct. Rush is buried there.

  • @JohnJones-oy3md
    @JohnJones-oy3md 4 місяці тому +39

    Some of these old-timey criminals sure did have incredible imaginations.

  • @goodun2974
    @goodun2974 4 місяці тому +99

    While trying to discover the origins of the phrase "Woah, Nelly" (or Nellie) which was used by wrestler Dick Lane and sportscaster Keith Jackson (and in the movie Toy Story), I came across the mention of a woman sometimes known as Nellie King who purportedly scandalized Minnesota and Wyoming in the late 1800s with eccentric behavior, outright theft, and Impersonation, including horse thieving, masquerading as a detective, and being a laudanum addict. Sounds to me like a new research subject for THG!

    • @Heike--
      @Heike-- 4 місяці тому +6

      It was used way before Toy Story.
      How do people assume sayings weren't in use before uncreative scriptwriters stole them and called them their own?

    • @SafetySpooon
      @SafetySpooon 4 місяці тому +18

      In no way did the previous poster even imply that "it wasn't in use before Toy Tory". In fact, the OP specifically said that it was (by way pf providing two separate examples) & simply said that *had been used in it*. Using a common phrase in a movie is in NO WAY "uncreative" or "theft". If anyone's assuming, it's you.

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 4 місяці тому +7

      @@Heike--, I have a vague recollection of the saying being used in a much older movie but in a quick search I could not find it. I did mention the 2 sports figures who were known to use it on occasion but I have a sneaking suspicion it may date back to that woman I also mentioned named Nelly King who was something of an outlaw in 1800 Minnesota and Wyoming. If you can find further information please share it.

    • @Heike--
      @Heike-- 4 місяці тому +3

      @@goodun2974 It didn't come from a movie. It didn't come from a stupid sportscaster. I was in common usage for decades. I used it as a kid and assumed it meant a horse, hence the "whoa" since that's how you get a horse to stop.

    • @Heike--
      @Heike-- 4 місяці тому +3

      @@SafetySpooon These people try to associate themselves with expressions in common use because they want everyone to think they made them up. Unfortunately, it works sometimes.
      Boom goes the dynamite, now that's one a sportscaster made up.

  • @johngalt9737
    @johngalt9737 4 місяці тому +28

    Wondered how you work pirates into a story about St Louis, well done

  • @mutterslog785
    @mutterslog785 4 місяці тому +21

    Country Club? lol, it was a pool hall with a bowling alley. Everyone knew that "you don't go in there." It's an empty lot now.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +23

      I honestly think that the name might have been deliberately ironic.

  • @RetiredSailor60
    @RetiredSailor60 4 місяці тому +28

    Good morning from rainy Galveston TX History Guy and everyone watching. Have a safe and fun Labor Day weekend

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +11

      I have an aunt and uncle there! I love visiting the island!

    • @garylefevers
      @garylefevers 4 місяці тому +7

      Thank you. You are very kind. Hope that you and everyone have a safe happy Labor Day weekend as well. Greetings from Southeast Kentucky.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +9

      Greetings! I don't get down to Kentucky often enough anymore, but I am a proud member of the Honorable Association of Kentucky Colonels.

    • @Lisargarza
      @Lisargarza 4 місяці тому +3

      I’ll be in Galveston in two weeks!

    • @loditx7706
      @loditx7706 4 місяці тому +1

      @retiredsailor,
      Guessing sailor part, since complete moniker doesn't show. Galveston, I have been there and loved walking the sea wall. Never even knew there was a touristy beach part with rides, etc.
      I moved to Kentucky a little over a year ago to escape Texas, still have a son and daughter there, but have same here, too. I could not take the ever increasing heat anymore and no rain shower lasted longer than 20 minutes and those were few and far between. My family goes back generations in Texas, but it has changed a lot since I was young. A decade or more ago we had Xmas days so hot that one had to turn on AC to be able to cook a turkey in the oven. I am glad to hear it is raining there. My son in Austin reported rain there also to his sister here. I love the coast, our vacation spot was always Port Aransas; although we made it to Galveston a few times, also. Sometimes I feel sad knowing I'll likely never see the Gulf again. Enjoy yourself in Galvez Town.

  • @elizabethmusso5946
    @elizabethmusso5946 4 місяці тому +14

    A dress shop with a “seamy side.” 😂

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +5

      Lol- I wondered if anyone would catch that.

    • @elizabethmusso5946
      @elizabethmusso5946 4 місяці тому +2

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannel Sometime sewist here.
      I also heard “Rush Limbaugh”??

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +1

      @@elizabethmusso5946 yes, he was the famous broadcaster’s grandfather.

    • @DarcMarc1066
      @DarcMarc1066 4 місяці тому

      dr grande would be proud of the word play

  • @RJ.the.artist
    @RJ.the.artist 4 місяці тому +16

    I’m from St. Louis, but didn’t know this bit of history. This is very interesting to wake up to on a Friday. Thanks!

    • @pickles3128
      @pickles3128 4 місяці тому +1

      Look up Pruitt Igoe if you want some more interesting StL history; there's a documentary on it on here. Also the murder of Bob Kuban by his wife's lover (and the lover's wife dying in a "car crash" that same month.)

    • @RJ.the.artist
      @RJ.the.artist 4 місяці тому

      @@pickles3128 I know about Pruitt Igoe, as it had an effect on my early family, but I will look up the others. Thanks!

  • @johnopalko5223
    @johnopalko5223 4 місяці тому +14

    The reason truth is stranger than fiction is fiction has to be plausible.

  • @ltldxy71
    @ltldxy71 4 місяці тому +2

    I love your stories about Missouri! ❤ There’s some likelihood my family crossed paths with Nellie’s in mid-Missouri back in the day. But I never heard of this story. How crazy!

  • @004Black
    @004Black 4 місяці тому +13

    I like the longer content and the shorts but I do remember, when I first subscribed, the History Guy saying something about “five minutes of history to be remembered.” 🤣

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +17

      LOL yes. Five minutes got too restrictive. But it is also a poor for for the way that UA-cam monetizes.

  • @sallycormier1383
    @sallycormier1383 4 місяці тому +14

    Wow! I can’t believe they haven’t made this story into a movie! Fascinating!😮 I did think of the movie all that jazz where Renee Z’s character faked a pregnancy to gain sympathy in her trial.

  • @steveshoemaker6347
    @steveshoemaker6347 4 місяці тому +5

    What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.....Thank THG🎀

  • @robertjensen1438
    @robertjensen1438 4 місяці тому +37

    A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered.
    Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mother's labor pain to the father. He asked if they were willing to try it out. They were both very much in favor of it.
    The doctor set the pain transfer to 10% for starters, explaining that even 10% was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced before. But as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and kick it up a notch. The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20% pain transfer. The husband was still feeling fine.
    The doctor checked the husband's blood pressure and was amazed at how well he was doing. At this point, they decided to try for 50%. The husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer was obviously helping out the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him. The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic.
    When they got home, the mailman was dead on the porch.

  • @aisforapple2494
    @aisforapple2494 4 місяці тому +11

    That had more twists than a pretzel factory!

  • @frankgulla2335
    @frankgulla2335 4 місяці тому

    What an amazing story of "kidnapping, high society and baby-theft". No wonder the Lindbergh case got such mixed reception. thansk again, for a great tale and visuals.

  • @tugginalong
    @tugginalong 4 місяці тому +4

    Thank you for another fascinating and entertaining story

  • @billbauer9795
    @billbauer9795 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for finding and presenting such a fascinating case!

  • @sarysa
    @sarysa 4 місяці тому +1

    Kidnapping insurance???
    Wow, I thought all the goofy insurance we have today was a strictly modern trend.
    BTW, heard you a bunch of times on Our American Stories. Grats for making it onto national radio.

  • @libbylee9722
    @libbylee9722 4 місяці тому +5

    My Nana used to say that to me "there once was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead and when she was good she was so good but when she was bad, she was awful.
    Thank you for reminding me of that. It's a great memory
    And yes, I have very curly hair

    • @Jbot123
      @Jbot123 4 місяці тому +4

      The last word of that saying is supposed to be 'horrid' so that it kinda rhymes.

    • @loditx7706
      @loditx7706 4 місяці тому

      @libbylee9722
      Part of that nursery rhyme was used as a title for one of Phillip Roth's books. "When She Was Good". He's also famous for Good Bye, Columbus. and Portnoy's Complaint. I believe that and some others of his work were made into movies in the 70s. I never read any of his work. He seemed to deal in gritty realism, while I prefer fantasy and mysteries. My real life has enough grit. He never wrote a sequel, which he did for some of his books; and that seems odd to me. Obviously his fans would have enjoyed following the character when she was bad.

    • @loditx7706
      @loditx7706 4 місяці тому +2

      @libbylee9722
      Your Nanna got it wrong. I believe the actual text was,
      "There was a little girl,
      Who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead.
      When She Was Good, she was very, very good,
      But when she was bad, she was horrid."
      I never had any curls, so I spent my life as a nonentity; always looking for others to define me, but no one ever did; although I was, I thought, to surely be identified as bad. Perhaps I lacked a recognition of gritty realism.

  • @dxdn_yt
    @dxdn_yt 4 місяці тому +3

    Hi. Thanks for another intriguing episode!
    Video/listener experience note: The level of the music in the mix for the end-of-video segment starts too loud (about 16:30) and really makes it difficult to hear your voice for your Patreon info, etc.

  • @BruceWSims
    @BruceWSims 4 місяці тому +10

    Mmmmm.......think I may have seen this played out
    on "Days of Our Lives"...........sheesh....😮😮😮

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +9

      Like sands through the hourglass…

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +1

      🤔 sounds more to me like something off the edge of wetness... _(classical reference, Johnny Carson)_

    • @davidcampbell4465
      @davidcampbell4465 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@TheHistoryGuyChannelor, as the world turns...

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +1

    12:09 *Roxie Hart... then we hear about the steadfast, redoubtable Amos who stood by her side... all we need now is Richard Gere singing about the Razzle Dazzle!*

  • @deetrvl4life875
    @deetrvl4life875 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow, no words for this one, so impactful! Great job!

  • @mattgeorge90
    @mattgeorge90 4 місяці тому +2

    Excellent episode!!!

  • @semigoth299
    @semigoth299 4 місяці тому +5

    All great stories have pirate 🏴‍☠️ in them ❤

  • @BasicDrumming
    @BasicDrumming 4 місяці тому +1

    I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

  • @jadesmith6823
    @jadesmith6823 4 місяці тому +4

    2nd from beautiful Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺
    Love the production ❤

  • @laurabuehler
    @laurabuehler 4 місяці тому +3

    I'm from the St. Louis area and I've never heard of this case.

  • @EGSBiographies-om1wb
    @EGSBiographies-om1wb 3 місяці тому

    Another vid well worth my time to watch.

  • @ricksaint2000
    @ricksaint2000 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you History Guy

  • @945hilo
    @945hilo 4 місяці тому +3

    Great story

  • @Paladin1873
    @Paladin1873 4 місяці тому +3

    Did they ever determine why Dr. Kelley was released by his kidnappers?

  • @robertreynolds8671
    @robertreynolds8671 4 місяці тому +2

    I had no idea that there were 3,000+ kidnappings in 1932. I knew of some high profile cases, but over 3K? Crazy.

    • @Heike--
      @Heike-- 4 місяці тому +1

      The media inspires copycat crimes by publicizing them. Why do you think the BLM riots received such extensive coverage?

  • @kellybasham3113
    @kellybasham3113 4 місяці тому +1

    Love your videos

  • @ristube3319
    @ristube3319 3 місяці тому

    10:49 Looks just like FDR!

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +4

    0:40 *_Because..._*
    ... don't all good stories involve pirates?

  • @jimivey6462
    @jimivey6462 4 місяці тому +12

    It appears that Nellie was a prevaricating prevaricator who prevaricated.

    • @JeffreyGlover65
      @JeffreyGlover65 4 місяці тому +3

      Lol

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +3

      This reminds me of a quote by major major major major major in Catch 22

    • @JeffreyGlover65
      @JeffreyGlover65 4 місяці тому +2

      @@HM2SGT lmao...I just finished reading that, for the second time, two days ago.
      Yossarian Lives!!!

    • @Pygar2
      @Pygar2 4 місяці тому +1

      @@JeffreyGlover65 Avoid the sequel.

    • @jimivey6462
      @jimivey6462 4 місяці тому +1

      @@HM2SGT The major is one of my all-time favorite literary characters.

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 4 місяці тому +3

    Reminds me of the weird practice of poor Italians to kidnap neighbors' children for ransom...the movie "I'm Not Scared" was about that
    One side of my family is Italian and I don't understand this at all

  • @loditx7706
    @loditx7706 4 місяці тому +2

    Fantastic unknown story! (At least, by me.)Thank you. But I still wonder. Why did the kidnappers free Doctor Kelly with no ransom demands sent or paid????????
    Did none of the convicted men ever explain that??

    • @NanaWilson-px9ij
      @NanaWilson-px9ij 4 місяці тому +2

      I was wondering that too, until the story about the baby threw it right out of my mind.

  • @Dragonfly-J
    @Dragonfly-J 4 місяці тому +3

    Hollywood should make a movie. It sounds almost comical.

  • @aegisofhonor
    @aegisofhonor 4 місяці тому +2

    though she probably thought by calling in all those favors and flexing her connections helped her, it more than anything probably raised A LOT of suspicion from her heavy handed approach to defending herself; almost the way a Mob Boss would defend themselves. Why would a woman have to go through such trouble to rid herself of accusations when a 100% pure innocent woman could almost certainly defend herself easily on her own loreals.

  • @bronwynecg
    @bronwynecg 4 місяці тому +2

    Good morning, professor! 👋🏽 😊

  • @rebeccapaul418
    @rebeccapaul418 4 місяці тому +2

    Oh what a tangled web...

  • @J.A.Smith2397
    @J.A.Smith2397 4 місяці тому +1

    Good one

  • @JeffreyGlover65
    @JeffreyGlover65 4 місяці тому +3

    Damn good story! 😎

  • @kye7967
    @kye7967 4 місяці тому +1

    You're just great 😂

  • @agbook2007
    @agbook2007 4 місяці тому +1

    What a wild story.

  • @RosieIfYouKnowMe
    @RosieIfYouKnowMe 4 місяці тому +1

    Sounds like plot devices for [the Broadway musical] Chicago.

  • @rhiannablumberg4803
    @rhiannablumberg4803 4 місяці тому +1

    my love.... he was fking his couch! REMEMBER?!? lmao... god i love u and your brain please NEVER stop venting hilarious brilliance!!!❤❤❤😂😂😂

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 4 місяці тому +1

    Thanks👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @rexrad9735
    @rexrad9735 4 місяці тому +3

    You look a lot like Bill Pullman in Accidental Tourist.

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 4 місяці тому +3

    Fiedler on the Roof !

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 4 місяці тому

      If you put your ear to the ground, could you hear the rumbling sounds of "Fiedler on the hoof"? 🤔😉

  • @ayindestevens6152
    @ayindestevens6152 4 місяці тому

    Welp this story was DEFINITELY a wild one. Although I did roll my eyes when Goldie said she was pregnant. I saw that twist coming

  • @Kw1161
    @Kw1161 4 місяці тому

    I hope that I’m around when you give the story of the “Super(?) Mayor “ of Dayton, Illinois currently playing out. That would be just as entertaining story, as this one.
    Have a great day!

  • @GreenCanvasInteriorscape
    @GreenCanvasInteriorscape 4 місяці тому +6

    I listened to Rush Limbaugh for 30 years, had never heard him explain the origin tale of who he was named after. Remarkable!
    The name Munch is related to a mildly obscure German high-end motorcycle company of the '60s.
    Wonder what surgery the husband could have done to her to pretend that a birth occurred and who would have checked what and how and why 🤨🤔

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +7

      The newspapers didn’t clarify. Perhaps a cesarean scar?

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +1

      😅 *beat me to it by 6 hours*

  • @brucealanwilson4121
    @brucealanwilson4121 4 місяці тому +2

    The Comm. Rush Limbaugh---was that the father or grandfather of the notorious radio hoast?

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +1

      @@brucealanwilson4121 he was the grandfather of the famous broadcaster.

    • @brucealanwilson4121
      @brucealanwilson4121 4 місяці тому +1

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thanks.

    • @NanaWilson-px9ij
      @NanaWilson-px9ij 4 місяці тому

      I didn't realize that the late Mr Limbaugh was notorious.

  • @ristube3319
    @ristube3319 3 місяці тому

    7:30 “The attractive auburn haired wife?!”
    Wow, the bar was much lower then eh?!

  • @kevinmiller7792
    @kevinmiller7792 4 місяці тому +2

    Did you ever discover why they released Dr. Kelly without a ransom being paid?🤔

  • @jamesmiddleton8128
    @jamesmiddleton8128 4 місяці тому +3

    Wild! People have sucked for a long time😢

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +2

      🤣 oh, wow... I'm sorry if this is a recent Epiphany for you, but the realization that people have been selfish, greedy and entirely too willing to screw others even for a slight advantage is unfortunately pretty much as old as civilization. I'm sorry that the naivete you cultivated in your delightfully sheltered environment before now isn't the reality... I often find myself musing that that's pretty much what heaven is; more or less the world we live in now but without the selfish, greedy, entitled Smegheads- a world where people follow the rules and do the right thing for the right reasons without having to be asked, told, compelled or forced.
      But then, I'm known for being an incurable Optimist and romantic! 🤞🍀

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@HM2SGTsmegheads...that's a new one. Permission to add it to my vocabulary?

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 4 місяці тому +1

      @@katie7748 😅 With my blessing, but honesty compels me to tell you that I filched it from Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, creators and writers of the British sci-fi comedy series red dwarf. Pretty entertaining stuff if you like moderately silly, comparatively low calorie mind candy. If you read for pleasure, you might check out the novel they wrote based on the show called infinity welcomes careful drivers, which gives a fair amount of backstory.
      Patrick Stewart was looking at the telly when he saw the show. At first he was mad and began calling his lawyer, but the more he watched the better he liked it. Now he's a fan who gives the Rimmer salute!
      Such clever writing as: "Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." 😹

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 місяці тому +5

    "The Country Club", given its address, an oxymoron.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +8

      Apparently a seedy pool hall used by the criminal element nowhere near the country. So yes, the name might have been ironic.

    • @ericwalstrand3512
      @ericwalstrand3512 4 місяці тому +2

      It's probably along the lines in the mobster movies all the local wise guys hang out at the "social club."

  • @isabellerininger6249
    @isabellerininger6249 4 місяці тому +2

    So, why kidnap and release the original doctor in the story with no ransom? I still don’t get that part.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +3

      It was not made more clear in the trials. Personally, I think it likely that they paid a ransom and refused to admit it. Fiedler insisted that they had.

  • @jroar123
    @jroar123 4 місяці тому +5

    Kidnapped : When a child sleeps during the day.

  • @matthewsecord7641
    @matthewsecord7641 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm sorry, kidnapping insurance?

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому

      @@matthewsecord7641 actually still available,

    • @AprilFriday-de6vm
      @AprilFriday-de6vm 4 місяці тому

      It’s still a thing. When my cousin asked for donations for her religious mission in the Middle East, my non-religious uncle bought kidnapping insurance on her instead of making a donation. Luckily it was not needed but he made his point.

  • @jameshudson169
    @jameshudson169 4 місяці тому

    finally we'll find out who hit nelly in the belly with the flounder?

  • @Sophie1Lynne
    @Sophie1Lynne 4 місяці тому +1

    where did you find info on her after prison? I looked (I'm an academic) and found nothing

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 місяці тому +1

      Shinkle included it in her 1983 Post-Dispatch article.

    • @Sophie1Lynne
      @Sophie1Lynne 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@TheHistoryGuyChannel thanks

  • @noone1929
    @noone1929 4 місяці тому

    2:44 "Hunt Doctor Who" is that a subliminal message from nefarious aliens?

  • @donnaevans8420
    @donnaevans8420 Місяць тому

    What happened to the child? I know he was returned to his mother, but did he remain in St. Louis?

  • @freshdonkey1760
    @freshdonkey1760 4 місяці тому

    We need 1080p at least please 🙏

  • @ashergoney
    @ashergoney 4 місяці тому

    At 32 Litres Of Total Alcohol Consumed From 10 Litres at December 20 2012 Onwards,
    @ 41 plus 18 from 24th October 2001

  • @NanaWilson-px9ij
    @NanaWilson-px9ij 4 місяці тому

    I'm going to search for a better picture of Nellie.
    She doesn't appear to me as described in the story.

  • @richardmourdock2719
    @richardmourdock2719 4 місяці тому +7

    WOW.. any story that includes the name Rush Limbaugh is worth hearing, but this one is really........... bizarre.

  • @nancyM1313-Boo
    @nancyM1313-Boo 4 місяці тому +2

    😊👍

  • @jaywax3593
    @jaywax3593 4 місяці тому +2

    Very nice to hear History Guy mention “Rush H. Limbaugh.” His grandson, the venerable MahaRushi, is a personal hero of mine.

  • @cherylbrooks7005
    @cherylbrooks7005 4 місяці тому +1

    ❤😊❤

  • @Chaplain_GM
    @Chaplain_GM 4 місяці тому

    Rush Limbaugh?????

  • @am2dan
    @am2dan 4 місяці тому +1

    tl;DNR - ...another plot twist...

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 4 місяці тому +3

    Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

  • @PurpleGray-x7r
    @PurpleGray-x7r 4 місяці тому +5

    I have a baby cradle exactly like the one pictured in the thumbnail. I slept in it, and both my girls slept in it. Still have it and waiting for grandkids.

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 4 місяці тому +3

      I hope you meant to say slept, otherwise that's one crowded cradle LOL

    • @PurpleGray-x7r
      @PurpleGray-x7r 4 місяці тому

      @@katie7748 fixed it, been sleep deprived due to very sick kitty. I did not catch that spell oops.

    • @PurpleGray-x7r
      @PurpleGray-x7r 4 місяці тому

      @@katie7748 thank for the note

  • @elcastorgrande
    @elcastorgrande 4 місяці тому +1

    You couldn't make this stuff up. Even if you could, nobody would believe it.

  • @futsuu
    @futsuu 4 місяці тому

    you dont know jack intro

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 4 місяці тому +1

    Show me State 😮

  • @jackmason5278
    @jackmason5278 4 місяці тому +3

    I have my doubts about the Lindberg kidnapping. Charles was a notorious, even vicious, prankster. He was upset that his son was left unattended. He staged a fake kidnapping, but it went wrong. He dropped the baby and killed it. From that point onward, he was locked into the kidnapping story.

    • @mutterslog785
      @mutterslog785 4 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, something like that. Lindbergh was not a nice guy, regardless of his accomplishments. An accidental death would have been covered up.

    • @Pygar2
      @Pygar2 4 місяці тому

      And just happened to make his ladder from lumber removed from Hauptmann's attic? Quite a coincidence...

    • @NanaWilson-px9ij
      @NanaWilson-px9ij 4 місяці тому

      I'm not so sure.
      I can't see Lindbergh building his own ladder in that type of situation. I imagine he would just go get the closest ladder he could find.
      I'm sure many ladders of the time were not mass produced, but were home made by someone.

  • @MichaelJohnson-tw7dq
    @MichaelJohnson-tw7dq 4 місяці тому

    Reminds me of my ex wife.

  • @EGSBiographies-om1wb
    @EGSBiographies-om1wb 3 місяці тому

    191st

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 місяці тому +1

    This comment is being made before watching. "Baby fraud..." WTAFF ?!? Only in America I'm betting.

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 місяці тому +2

      "Notorious Nellie", damn, I can't stop giggling. Sounds like a kid's comic character!

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 місяці тому +1

      This whole story is like a surreal fairy tale. 😳

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@capt.bart.roberts4975, "Woah, Nellie !!" is an expression variously attributed to wrestler Dick Lane or to sportscaster Keith Jackson who claimed to have picked it up from his great-grandpa on the farm ---- but in the late 1800s there was a woman in Minnesota known as Nellie King who, According to a biography scandalized residents of Minnesota and Wisconsin with her Fetching appearance , eccentric behavior, criminal misdeeds and general disturbances of the peace, including masquerading as a detective, horse thievery, and being a laudanum addict.

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard1000 4 місяці тому +1

    38th, 30 August 2024

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 4 місяці тому

      Omg you are EVERYWHERE...are you even real???

  • @putoluto5256
    @putoluto5256 4 місяці тому +3

    @5:00 He was probably was on a bender with his paramour and the kidnapping was a cover story.