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The mystery of the missing shepherds [Greek Audio]
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The mystery of the missing shepherds [Greek Audio]

In 1974, workers building a road in Parnitha, accidentally solve a thirty-year mystery: the mystery of the disappearance of seventeen shepherds from Legrena village during the German Occupation.

Narrator: Vangelis Dounas
Interview: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographs: Stefanos Bertakis


Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.