How Two WWI POWs Conned Their Way Out With a Ouija Board
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The Turkish prison at Yozgad was so remote that its jailers did not bother with barbed wire. It was considered escape-proof. Two wily inmates begged to differ.
The men huddled in the passageway in the flickering candlelight. Some were wrapped in blankets against the Anatolian winter; others wore pajamas. Still others were dressed in British military uniforms, very nearly the only clothing they had.