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Haunted

Originally aired 10.31.1997
Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people.

Prologue.

Ira reads an excerpt from James Ellroy's memoir My Dark Places. (4 minutes)

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Act One.

Ira with Lynnette Nyman, who, as a girl, recorded her parents fighting with a cassette recorder she got for Christmas. (15 minutes)

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Act Two.

Holocaust survivor Binjamin Wilkomirski and New York writer Blake Eskin try and figure out if they are related. (20 minutes)

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Act Three. Ashes.

David Sedaris, on his mother's lung cancer. (11 minutes)

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Act Four. Ghost Story.

An excerpt from Heather Woodbury's epic eight-hour solo show WhatEver: An American Odyssey in Eight Acts. (7 minutes)

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