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October 27, 2006

And the Call Was Coming from the Basement

For the week leading up to Halloween, scary stories that are all true. Kidnappings, zombie raccoons, haunted houses—real haunted houses!—and things that go "EEEEK!!!" in the night. Plus, a story by David Sedaris, in which he walks among the dead.

Prologue

Ira and Albert Donnay read a true ghost story that appeared in a medical journal in 1921.  A "Mrs. H" and her family moved into an old rambling house and strange apparitions started appearing ... until her brother-in-law figured out the real cause of the ghostly presences.  (6 minutes)

Act Two

The Hitcher

Writer Bill Eville and his brother, late at night, are picked up on the side of the road, and not taken to their destination.  (10 minutes)