This week we continue the Coney Island summer series as we learn about the gigantic Elephant shaped building that quickly devolved from hotel to brothel and then promptly caught fire. A listener email shares with us the absurd story of British nurse Violet Jessop.


Episode Tabs:

THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD

https://www.sideshowworld.com/81-SSPAlbumcover/Elephantine/Colossus.html


Listener Tabs:

Story of the unsinkable woman!

https://donasussan.medium.com/violet-jessop-ms-unsinkable-6255ab66c037


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