Balloon Boy AND The Nuns Who Sold Their Convent And Moved To France

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Balloon Boy:

ABC News story ten years on (including footage of THAT interview with Richard Heene and Falcon Heene): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Gc38ib1qo

Some articles: https://www.5280.com/2019/09/the-balloon-boy-hoax-solved/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/24/couple-behind-2009-balloon-boy-hoax-in-us-granted-pardons

The wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

Heene Boyz website: https://www.heeneboyz.com/

NUNS ON THE RUN:

Poor Clares wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Clares

Some articles: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-30-mn-200-story.html

https://apnews.com/article/9f5d255c2b0667a6520d45607de79dc2

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-03-22-9001240080-story.html

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/04/06/The-adviser-to-aging-nuns-who-sold-their-convent/1837639374400/ 

Some more detail on the Bishop of Bruges and the Belgian nuns: https://radaronline.com/p/millionaire-nuns-on-run-lesbian-trysts-wrath-of-disgraced-bishop/

Check out this newspaper clipping from 1990: https://kshouseofdelights.quora.com/Retiring-in-style-In-1990-a-group-of-Belgian-nuns-sold-up-their-14th-century-convent-for-1-4-million-and-ran-off-to 

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