{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspookycoop.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fsc-44-the-1942-battle-of-los-angeles-3euh1y4r","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"SC-44-The Battle of Los Angeles","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/38c0da71-9690-46f2-ae39-09397dd06d97/ce4c46a2-1db6-41c7-beb0-f1f4c65ea060/spookycoop_logo_v3_large_3000x3000.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/8b91fc26-6fae-403d-8de0-b05d95c1fe6c\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"SC-44-The Battle of Los Angeles\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In this episode of Spooky Coop, Paul and Michelle investigate the Battle of Los Angeles—a real and baffling wartime event from February 25, 1942. As air-raid sirens sounded across Southern California, anti-aircraft guns fired more than 1,400 rounds into the night sky at what officials believed could be an enemy threat.\n\nWith eyewitness accounts, contemporary newspaper coverage, and the competing explanations that followed, Paul and Michelle explore what really happened: Japanese attack, weather balloon, wartime panic, secret military activity… or something stranger?\n\nWas Los Angeles under attack—or did fear turn the sky itself into the enemy?"}