Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people.
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Prologue
Ira reads an excerpt from James Ellroy's memoir My Dark Places. (4 minutes)
Act One
Hearing Voices
Ira with Lynnette Nyman, who, as a girl, recorded her parents fighting with a cassette recorder she got for Christmas. (15 minutes)
Act Two
Act Two
Binjamin Wilkomirski and New York writer Blake Eskin try and figure out if they are related.
NOTE: A few years after this interview aired, Binjamin Wilkomirski and his Holocaust memoir Fragments were shown to be fabrications. Blake Eskin chronicled this story in his 2002 book A Life In Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. (20 minutes)
Act Three
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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Chuck Salter, son of Georgia Rambler Charles Salter, Sr., visits a man named Windell Cleveland, who was interviewed by his father 33 years ago.
Act Three: Mission: Impossible
Producer Jane Feltes spends a day with two young Mormons, on mission to possibly the least receptive environment they could find...the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Act Two: Scientists in a Haunted House
An excerpt from Your Radio is Haunted. (6 minutes)
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