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Throughout history there have been some pretty wild prison escapes. There seems to be no end to the ingenuity displayed by those who want to escape a hellish future behind bars. These attempts range from the daring to the misguided, but they all have their place in history and some are weirder than others. Here. Read more »
Imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp in Turkey at the height of World War I, a British barrister and an Australian mechanic devised an audacious exit strategy involving a homemade Ouija board, a fake treasure hunt, and nerves of steel. Margalit Fox reveals the story behind one of history’s forgotten great escapes…
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So, it s summer and you re ready for some escapist reading. But what? Well, you need look no further than Margalit Fox s enthralling The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History. As Fox writes in a one-sentence summary, during World War I two British officers Elias Henry Jones and Cedric Waters Hill escaped from an isolated Turkish prison camp by means of a Ouija board.
In essence, the pair convinced both the camp s general factotum, whom they nicknamed the Pimple, and its Turkish commandant that they were in communication with an otherworldly spirit who knew the location of an immense buried fortune. Having excited the greed of their captors, Jones and Hill next persuaded them that the final clue to the treasure s whereabouts could only be revealed after the two mediums, along with the Pimple and the commandant, made their way to the busy seacoast near Constantinople. I ll say no more about their ingenious scheme, ex