Show Notes
On Christmas Day 1929, postman Larry Griffin rode into the village of Stradbally to deliver the mail and vanished. His bike was found abandoned the next morning, but his body was never recovered. Nearly a century later, the disappearance of Ireland’s “missing postman” remains unsolved.
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Mystery still surrounds 1929 disappearance of Co Waterford postman The strange case of the country postman who vanished one Christmas Day CSÍ The Missing Postman Part One The missing postman | Irish Independent Remembering The Missing Postman - The Munster Express The Case Of The Missing Postman | Liveline - RTÉ Radio 1 To access bonus weekly episodes of Red Room join Patreon HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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