Ghost Stories

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Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted
(Eric Nuzum)

Authors of the Impossible
(Jeffrey J. Kripal)

Stay Awake
(Dan Chaon)

Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife
(Raymond Moody, Paul Perry)

Incidental Music:

Never Stop (Discotheque)
(Porcupine, Echo & Bunnymen)
Rococo
(Bela Fleck & the Flecktones: The Hidden Land, Bela Fleck & Flecktones)
Jack, You're Dead!
(Jack You're Dead, Louis Jordan)
Ghosts i - iv
(Ghosts I - IV, Nine Inch Nails)
Ambient I: Music for Airports
(Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Brian Eno)
Rocky Mountains - music from The Shining
(Rediscovering Lost Scores 1, Wendy Carlos)
Interviewer(s): 
Anne Strainchamps
Steve Paulson
Guest(s): 
Eric Nuzum
Jeffrey Kripal
Dan Chaon
Raymond Moody
Producer(s): 
Anne Strainchamps
10.26.2012

Celebrate Halloween with this spooky hour full of ghost stories from our wonderful listeners, and real-life tales of the paranormal.   Haunted houses, near-death experiences, and spectral raccoons...  so many ways to be un-dead.

  1. Eric Nuzum on "Giving Up the Ghost"

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    Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress.  She stalked him.

    4.6
    Average: 4.6 (5 votes)

  2. Listener Ghost Story: "The Lake"

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    A ghost story from listener Sophia Derbes.

    4.666665
    Average: 4.7 (6 votes)

  3. Jeffrey Kripal on the Paranormal

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    .Historian Jeffrey Kripal makes the case for taking paranormal phenomena more seriously.

    3.285715
    Average: 3.3 (7 votes)

  4. Listener Ghost Story: "Presidential Phantasm"

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    A ghost story from listener Eric Van Vleet.

    4.4
    Average: 4.4 (5 votes)

  5. Dan Chaon on "Stay Awake"

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    Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."

    4.4
    Average: 4.4 (5 votes)

  6. Listener Ghost Story: "You Are What You Eat"

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    A ghost story from listener Jonathan Blyth, called "You Are What You Eat."

    4.5
    Average: 4.5 (6 votes)

  7. Raymond Moody on "Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife"

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    Near-death researcher Dr. Raymond Moody looks back on his career investigating near-death experiences.

    3.8
    Average: 3.8 (5 votes)