The Phantom Marine Podcast

25/03/2022

I’m here at the National Cemetery of the Pacific. Paying my respects to the memory of PFC Langston. KIA on Iwo Jima on March 7, 1945, for official purposes.

17/06/2021

Welcome to another wave of new members. How did you hear about The Phantom Marine?

Thanks everyone for your patience as I work on putting a capstone on this series.

10/06/2021

Welcome to all of our new members. We’ve had a major spike in listeners and likes - I wonder if we were featured somewhere and I missed it?

Thanks everyone for waiting patiently for the next episode.

30/05/2021

This Memorial Day weekend we honor the lives of those lost in the service of our country. For the rest of her life, Gold Star mother Naomi Hendrix, mother of William Langston, was dedicated to the cause of veterans and their families.

Hello to all the new listeners who've been joining this page. I'm waiting for one bit of breaking news and then will be posting a final (for now) episode, concluding the story as best I can.

17/03/2021

The man who wrote the letter to the Memphis newspaper - presumably the man with the limp - said that he had gone to Ripley to see June Queen. Langston had no connection to June Queen, America's most famous murder defendant, who had bludgeoned a truck driver with a hammer. Here's a photo of her behind bars, offering candy to her jailer.

13/03/2021

Episode 9 - Imposters Part Two is now live. We examine the story of a French nobleman who abandoned his identity and returned during the murder trial of his alleged killer.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/unresolvedproductions/09-imposters-part-two

Our look at imposters continues with the case of a man who abandoned his identity - and then tried t

21/02/2021

Episode 8 of The Phantom Marine is now live. If William Langston died on Iwo Jima, how did an imposter fool so many of the people in Newport, Arkansas, the ones who knew William the best growing up? I talk to Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis about the most famous imposter story of all time - the Return of Martin Guerre.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/unresolvedproductions/08-imposters-part-one

What does the most famous imposter case of all time tell us about the mystery of the phantom marine? Natalie Zemon Davis joins to tell us.

20/02/2021

The Phantom Marine Podcast featured in today’s Tulsa World. 76 years after William Langston disappeared from the front pages of newspapers across the nation, and the trail of the man with the limp went cold, Tim Stanley - Tulsa World picks it up again. https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/tim-stanley-mystery-of-phantom-iwo-jima-veteran-lingers-76-years-later/article_3648a3e8-71ff-11eb-bf92-cf43e2105f77.html -source=home-top-story-1

With the 76th anniversary of World War II’s Battle of Iwo Jima, and a possible connection to Oklahoma, it seemed like a good time to share with readers the strange

19/02/2021

Many of the articles about William Langston and his alleged reappearance were written by the wire services, news agencies that provided content to papers across the country. While the local newspapers tended to run the articles without many changes, the headlines were chosen by local editors. Here's one colorful interpretation from the Fresno Bee, January 26, 1946.

25/01/2021

Episode 7 is live. I'd like to cover listener theories and questions in our next episode - what am I missing? What do you think happened? What should I cover in greater detail?

https://www.spreaker.com/user/unresolvedproductions/07-iwo-jima-part-three

Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima expert Robert Burrell takes us into battle through William Langston's eyes.

21/01/2021

I'd like to do an episode based on your questions and observations. What am I missing? What would you like to see covered in greater detail?

We're at thousands of listeners now - I want to hear from you.

24/12/2020

Episode Six of The Phantom Marine podcast is now available. Jim Earl, 95, was one of the men in Langston's Fox Company on the day he officially died - one of supposedly ten to survive the fighting at Cushman's Pocket, Iwo Jima.

www.chrisderosebooks.com/phantom

William Willard Langston was declared dead on Iwo Jima.  His wife and son moved on without him.  Then a man appeared in his hometown.  The people who knew William his entire life were certain it was him.  Then he vanished.  Who is buried in William Langston's grave?  Who was the Man with the L...

14/12/2020

Episode Five of The Phantom Marine is now live. Joining us is James Bradley, number one New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, to talk about the fighting on Iwo Jima.

https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-phantom-marine

William Langston was killed in action on Iwo Jima. Ten months later he seems to have reappeared in his hometown. Things get stranger from there.

04/12/2020

Episode Four of The Phantom Marine is now live.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/unresolvedproductions/04-sulfur-island

Interview with William Langston's niece, a search of his military files, and the FBI report on Marion Langston.

02/12/2020

An image of the letter postmarked from Conway, Arkansas, from the man with the limp to Naomi Hendricks of Jonesboro, mother of William Willard Langston.

22/11/2020

Episode 3 is now up. See what happens when the FBI and the Marines join the hunt for the Phantom Marine.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/unresolvedproductions/tpm-03

Langston's nephew weighs in on the memory of the Phantom Marine. The FBI and the Marines head to Newport.

20/11/2020

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal:

15/11/2020

Episode 2 - "A Sea Monster Tale" is now available.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/unresolvedproductions/tpm-02

The Phantom Marine vanishes and reappears. Then the trail goes cold forever. A young bride is forced into an impossible situation. A sea monster and America's most beautiful murder defendant enter the picture. And we talk to Duane Langston, the son of the Phantom Marine.

10/11/2020

The Podcast Website is up:

https://www.spreaker.com/show/4658940

William Langston was killed in action on Iwo Jima. Ten months later he seems to have reappeared in his hometown. Things get stranger from there.

18/02/2020