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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