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They both had dark South Indian complexions. But I look it up. I will be off. In the 1920s, at the height of the Spiritualism movement, a friendship blossomed between two men with opposing views on the topic: Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work, she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. We yet only the part of the ship that's sunk down into the sand. To Mike, they're traps, a mirage. Ron Rosenbaum wrote about it on Slate and in his book How The End Begins. His strategy is the anti-strategy. David wrote a book about the experience of losing his memory, called The Answer to the Riddle Is Me. And maybe it's better if you hear this in a British accent. Ted was six years old. Her son had been traveling in Singapore when some bad men had injected him with drugs. I just kept screaming my brother's name. And I almost believed this. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Some people are actually raising their hands. On his head, both aft and fore, he maybe should have got out more. Then those Muslim armies started fighting the Byzantines, Christians, in wars that would continue for centuries, and of course feel pretty relevant today. Massive trains would sound their massive horns before they trundled out of the station. Nobody really knew that anything scary had happened but me. The car flew by us, kicking up sand, which stung my legs. Eventually, we passed the last house along the Methodist campground, where the Sunday before, I had climbed the stage at the old tabernacle and sang with my cousins before a crowd of hundreds, "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." It looks as though someone had a bulldozer inside the unit and just pushed everything all the way to the front. "I think I slept in a room with monkeys last night. He's written about nuclear war on and off for decades. And so my job was sort of to make sure that she didn't-- or at least the job I gave myself was to make sure there wasn't too long between her breaths. Thank you, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia, who, he-- he-- he's coming up behind me. Mike's buying at auctions and reselling at flea markets around the state full time, just barely supporting his girlfriend and two little kids. "Fire up the kettle," I told him. In 1999, there were 30 new This American Life episodes. And then when we're inside, then someone comes and tells me that I live in Putnam County and I'm in a hospital in Westchester, and that they can't give me the shots. The parts were uniform so that different components could be made all over the empire at different factories. It goes without saying that for the next few weeks, I was not much fun to live with. Now, though, whenever I hear "Joy to the World," I think of a fibroid tumor positioned upon a Styrofoam plate. He and Linda start freeing things from the mass, including bags of recyclable bottles. --whether to retaliate or not if Britain is already a smoking, irradiated ruin, and they're dead. Why did they make the existence of this letter known? When my parents walked into my room in the asylum, a motor spun inside my brain. Each week we choose a theme, and present various stories on that theme. I'm Ira Glass. Hi. She nodded, and so I did the same, not because I agreed, but I didn't disagree either. The officer told me his name was Rajesh, but I could call him Josh. And if I ever go to walk and I don't have the cell phone, I will always feel a little fear. I mean, I can't imagine, you know, someone writing, "Dear Mr. "I'm serious," I told her. But who's going to pay $225 on a unit every month to store this? I've just had a rough life and I've been through a lot of things that most people shouldn't, so I don't see things like, you know, I see it for what it is. And looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. You survived hitting it over the head with a tire iron 50 times. I'm being attacked." They said I needed to stay for another night at Greenlands, and then I'd go home with them to their hotel, and then we'd get on a plane for the U.S. Which brings me to a quick public service announcement. Veda rounded up every American he knew, figuring I'd be more comfortable surrounded by them. She knows for a fact there are wild animals out there, and it's not a comforting thought. He had nicknamed me hero. I didn't recognize him, but by that time, I recognized the look of someone recognizing me. Another guy, so tall his head almost touched the roof of the car, rode shotgun . It skidded to a stop about 100 yards away. These visitors acted like they knew me. Contact All American Insurance via the web! Please calm down. And then everything changed. "There's tennis in the morning.". Production help from Brian Reed. While the bodies seemed unreal, the tools used to pick them apart were disturbingly familiar. This medical examiner's office was in the western United States, in a city where guns are readily available and drivers are known to shoot each other over parking spaces. Why let people know there's a handwritten letter that might say, oh, don't launch the missiles? And they were discovering graffiti on them, inscriptions on them. Episode 119 - "Lockup". But of course, this is what they would have to say, even if it's not true, to make the threat seem credible. Number one, carbon monoxide. The rest of us went into the living room, where Jim and I told our story once more. Coming up her drive at night, after she got home from the trip, she peered into the woods around her house and imagined that there were wild animals out there, like there had been on safari. This helped calm me down. I did this enough times for Mrs. Lee to get freaked out and call my mom's coworker's family. And then I saw this enormous black boot on the first step. And on the surface, I'm sure I seemed fine with it. And it's strange because nobody knew what had gone on but me. Same thing. "You'll be OK. Jesus loves you." But buying a hamburger-- I buy hamburgers. Unemployment is 9 percent, but it's worst among high school dropouts andpeople with only a high school education. I had a small rooftop flat right next to the elevator engine. Can I come home? Tracks. I ask Mike if he sees anything here worth bidding on. I'm talking about the American Journal of Opthalmalogy, a medical journal. Sometimes you raise your hand. I can get some sleep before the kids start causing terror. No backstory, no motivation, no distinguishing characteristics, no real idea what I even looked like. I was delirious with happiness. I had no idea what she looked like. David wrote a book about the experience of losing his memory, called The Answer to the Riddle Is Me. He looked into the car and shook his head back and forth. She's here with her friend Lois. And as the story got out, it quickly became clear that Bob was the one who had ratted Allan out. That, and a pathetic desire to appear casual-- one of the gang. The adults and the children are held down in their beds by unseen figures. And I suddenly realized I had fallen asleep. I think it's actually probably the most scared I've ever been in my life. We hadn't been dating for very long, and my parents didn't have any pictures of her. In trading on Tuesday, shares of American Equity Investment Life Holding Co's 5.95% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series A (Symbol: AEL.PRA) were yielding above the 7% mark . And then I realized it hasn't seen me yet, and I sort of just waved my arm a little bit. Between 2020 and 2022 the share of Americans who vowed to vote only for pro-choice candidates nearly doubled; in the five years to 2023 the percentage who say third-trimester abortions should be . "It's over, and everyone's safe," she said. Each week on our program, we choose a theme and bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. It's not like I'd walked into this completely unprepared. So huge triumph. And so I was beside her in her hospital room while she was sleeping. For a look at the nuts and bolts of government job creation. But then, about 15 minutes outside of town, we took a left turn to a graveyard. He would know what to do. There's a rabies epidemic in New York, which started in the '90s. He's not saying anything. I was doped up on enough Valium that I was able to have visitors. I stared at that picture for hours on end, hoping it might inspire me, but I know nothing about poetry. She'd been to the hospital. When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were? : Hi, my name is Amy Mackinnon. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. It's such a jumbled, ridiculous end of the long day that all the jaded old-timers have perked up. What's amazing about this story is what a completely traditional ghost story it is. www.thisamericanlife.org Facebook Twitter On tour View all. The one animal we cant seem to live without, even when we really, really want to. June 22, 2023. He gave me a bag full of toothpaste, ramen, and milk. So they had to cancel Halloween. Two of them were children bitten by rabid bats in their sleep. The car didn't slow down. I tried the memory trick of placing the character of me in a relationship with her, and it didn't fit. But when she called there, they said they needed to test the carcass for rabies first, which meant sending it to the rabies laboratory two hours away in Albany. She never got to see his body. He's not like Dave at all. I felt that nature betrayed me. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Quick! Blubber, really. And the music stopped. In early November, I returned home and repelled every single person I came into contact with. And inside that safe is a handwritten letter from the British Prime Minister, to be opened only if the country has been decimated by nuclear war. And so on he talked, insisting that he'd been called and for me to explain who it had been.". Every day I spend a little time on that project. They were both in their early 60s. And all of a sudden, we heard the basement door creaking open. They're trying to find something to draw themselves into buying it. They have no energy. Her name was Betsy, and she had long brown hair and tanned skin. This morning, a little after nine, a crowd of a few dozen prospectors is already waiting in the fog outside Bridgehead Self Storage, an hour east of San Francisco. That earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. I turned to the open door where Jim still stood. Newsy stories that try to capture what. $33.00. And in those 20 minutes, George and Fred had to solve problems nobody ever faced before. I said, go to the house, and get a knife. I ducked back into the seat well and crawled to the door. I rubbed my shoulder where the tall man had grabbed me and got out of bed. Behold the recluse looking pensive. The story of Keith Aldridge, who repeatedly reinvented himself over the course of his life to coincide with the major cultural events of the late 20th century, until he . But actually, the day was just like any other. In 2008, he turned professional and began . "You OK?" I said, I've been attacked on the driveway by a raccoon. So he went on home, and I had just started on the driveway. The policeman pulled a little away from me. Those days spent in my parents' house, I mostly stared at pictures, trying to recapture anything of who I was. In other words, Britain's destroyed. And I start crying. I developed a system. I mean, I'm just-- and I'm thinking, the closest neighbor, it's a house that they're sort of weekenders, and often, they're not there. When I say that I woke up, I don't mean I was on a bench passed out and woozily came to. The partnership worked. They become nothing but a vehicle for the virus, attacking anything that moves in order to spread the disease. I was in the mental institution, Greenlands Mental Facility. Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. I ran to him, kneeled down, and put my hand on his chest. "No need to drag it out." I tried to convince myself it was just a joke-- scare the crap out of some kids on a boring Saturday night. I told him I had not called him, that I had not been in his room. The servants walked about on thickly carpeted floors so quietly that I could not even hear them at their work.". "I'm Mr. Desappa and this is Mr. Sampson. I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.". Someone shouts out the name of a bar to head to. The church's involvement and those mass production factories were part of this remarkable military supply chain that Fred helped uncover. When the door rolls up, Mike quickly tallies up the value of everything he can see and definitively identify in the unit, and then bids based on that and only that. People tangled up in our current racial backlash in both extreme and very personal ways. I knew that as soon as I said it, all of my loved ones would flood up from the basement and the other rooms where they'd been hiding. Igor, they called me. Emanuele came to This American Life from Gimlet Media. That's my story. The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar. And about at the point where Olga is coming back and gets out of the car with these two big knives, the raccoon had died. It had rabies, a disease that even scientists who study it called diabolical. Susan Burton is a couple years into recovery from the eating disorder shes had for decades. I had never smoked a day in my life, but I started chain smoking in the mental institution. Thanks to everybody who called our special scary stories hotline. There is a growing population of ultra-orthodox Jewish people in this city, who send their kids to their own private schools and . And the '90s brought the first human deaths from rabies in the state in half a century. And then it would keep trying with its claws to scratch at me. Fred got surprise news from some of his interns. And then a couple of seconds later, I heard her breathe again. She didn't want to jinx it. The woman was young, dark, and slight and wore a large picture hat. On October 13, 2002, I woke up in a train station in Secunderabad with no passport and no idea who I was. So it gives us a feeling that this is not some numinous, irretrievable mystery. He wanted to know if anything was wrong. I could see a light in the distance and headed for it. Our website, thisamericanlife.org. Jim was the older brother. I now looked at everyone this way. "You really have to watch yourself in this produce aisle." Her son grabbed a big fallen branch and laid it across the raccoon's back. I could hear them talking quietly together. I've seen it way too many times. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. Submarine commander, I'm dead. She's identified as Mrs. H. And in the letter, she's describing a very strange series of events that happened to her and her family starting when they moved into a rambling old house on November 15, 1921. And later, after my father had showered, I can remember him walking to the kitchen. They're almost enjoying it. We came up here sometimes with our grandfather to pay our respects. It lets two truths exist at the same time. They said that Sally was excited to see me and that Ann was planning on coming to Ohio for a visit. I've seen this before many times." I turned my head and could see his feet. She had straight blond hair with a crooked part running down the center. Act three is about truth wiped away from inside someone's head. Yes. The story of an FBI undercover operation from 2006 that went terribly, and became the heart of a case heard at the Supreme Court. Stories from the center of this moment of history, the day it happened. I just had no idea where to tell the driver to go. Jim and I stood up, began telling everyone what had happened. But that's exactly what they did, when they devoted 50 years to uncovering the mysteries of a shipwreck. So you knew right away you wanted this one? And I wet my pants. I started crying at the sound of her voice. David's book about this incident is called The Answer to the Riddle Is Me. On October 13, 2002, David MacLean woke up in India with no memory of who he was or how he got there. "You're letting in the mosquitoes." Mostly, though, his face was kind. One guy does antiques. All of the kids are there. Our show today in four scary acts, including the true scary stories that you and listeners like you called into our scary story hotline, and a story in which David Sedaris walks among the dead. They ran down the street to a phone booth, somehow had a quarter, and called the police. And it raises a few broader questions. I learned about this, it freaked me out, and now I want to tell people. A bit ho-hum, he called it. The feeling was, all it cared about was attacking me. We began to climb the hill that led out of town, and I grew silent. These stories are all absolutely true. The inscriptions were cryptic. You will receive a response from us shortly. And then I'm starting to learn that rabies immunoglobulin is a very expensive shot. I changed out of my pajamas into jeans and my favorite green basketball T-shirt. David's book about this incident is called, If you enjoyed this episode, you may like these. Our show today in three acts. I started taking the drug a month before leaving, as prescribed. And all of a sudden, in the stairwell, the shape of a man and what I saw later was a baseball bat-- but it could have been anything to me at the time-- reared up out of the dark stairwell. We spent the weekend hiking with my parents. I mean, frankly, even though you've done it, it still seems impossible to me. It's like a wall of stuff with something behind it. Office Locations Call or visit the nearest All American Insurance location. And this led to a series of discoveries that changed how scholars understand the Byzantine Empire. Newsy stories that try to capture what it's like to be alive right now. Act one. You write, with all due respect for our British cousins, this seems, well, insane. Finally, they gave her the shot, but they gave it to her in the wrong place-- the buttocks, and not in her arm like they were supposed to. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. A woman sat in the middle. Can we ever go back? And that's how I leave them, scrabbling through the unit in a floodlight in the cold. And then--. She did a fantastic job. A secret sealed away where nobody can get to it? And he did, until I finally fell asleep. My discovery, for instance, that if you jumped from a tall building and land on your back, your eyes will pop out of your head and hang by bloody cables. And I was so angry that I wasn't with him. And so after she came out of her surgery, it took a number of hours. Sold them out. I opened the door. "Well," he'd sigh. And Dave says they took the good stuff out. Ron Rosenbaum contacted the British Defense Ministry and was told essentially that the letter was a fail-safe, almost a formality. Stories from places that are slowly coming apart. Writer Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture thedifferent sides of his mother. "That's me!" "Yeah," he said. X-Men / This American Life Poster. You foreigners come here to my country and do your drugs. "You do not understand what you are doing to your mother when you put these drugs into your body." So he goes and gets this tire iron out of the car. Dad wore a thick mustache and looked good in a tight white T-shirt. She wept as she told me this. And in my head, I said, you have to calm down. And behind there, people are saying they see a giant Santa Claus. You guys must hate those water termites more than anything in the world. Again, that's a technique still used, although in much improved form, today. ", "You have kids?" My parents told me where they were saying. To contact All American Insurance directly, please fill out the following form as completely as possible. And then it turns out to be carbon monoxide poisoning. We moved fast, swerving in and out of our lane. Which brings us back to the question, why do it this way? I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner. The woods opened up into a small clearing, and there was a house and a party in full swing. Uh-- OK, I don't-- there's nothing like a motorcycle, or-- but for everyone that thought the back half of this unit was empty, they were absolutely dead wrong. Gradually, though, the bad omens stack up. And I think what was so scary about it was that there was just no way of getting it back, that something stupid like falling asleep, and there was nothing I was ever going to be able to do to change it. Citizens were disemboweled, one right after another. We held Asa's hands. Well, it's Halloween, and this little example shows you what kind of boring killjoy trouble you can get into when you start applying rationality and facts to a perfectly good scary story, a story that never wanted to hurt anyone. Two men walked into my room. "What do you think?" Yes, I suppose that's true. Lots of people stood outside, drinking around a keg. I thought of knitting needles. Act two is about the truth of an entire empire 1,400 years ago. The hardcore veterans are all feeling crappy and disappointed. His door barely closed when the car took off. This was the first time that I cried. During the day, this spot is filled with people jumping off the railing into the water, but at night, no one goes there. Yes, this was. 2.35 billion with a B square feet in the United States, according to the Self Storage Association. When finished, click the Submit button to send your contact request. Jim took up where I left off. The man still held me by the shoulder, but I pushed as hard as I could with my legs. The Best New Whiskeys To Chase Down This April. Now 325 now 350 new blood now 375. And then the monster looked at me, and he said, "It's OK, Amy. Your nation's been annihilated. But I kept leaning on it and then pushing it into the snow. Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups. To be honest, the afternoon has blurred together in a model of obsolete computer monitors, dusty sweatpants, vacuums, and bingo cards. I asked Fred about this. And he acted like it was like a joke, and it was because the microphone on the phone was being pinned, where it had this sort of strange noise. I told him it was undoubtedly the wind rattling his window. He was still back in the graveyard, running down one of the dirt roads with the car right behind him. But then the tires locked up, and the car fishtailed. And then we heard boom, boom. George traveled the world talking up Fred's work, spreading the gospel of nautical archaeology, and raising money to keep Fred hunched over tiny fragments of wood and pottery for 50 years. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Mom bent down so her face was level with mine. I flew back to India on November 20, a little more than a month after the incident. And of course, we have to wait time in the emergency room, and then we get in. He went down and brought up hundreds of amphoras, those jars. On every British nuclear submarine, there's a safe. Jim hesitated. Because most of the people you've killed will be innocent civilians. It's OK." But I couldn't hear him anymore. This American Life is an award-winning public radio show hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media. I was settling down to do my work. I do it realistically. She told me that she was sorry. But Jim and I were getting older. Mom even got carded sometimes at R rated movies. Rat-bitten old diaper boxes, not good. We'll have all of the friends over from the neighborhood because it would just be too dangerous to be out in the dark with a monster on the loose. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. He just bids on what's visible. I love how no story of this era can be complete without servants padding about. Wait, wait, wait. And they all recognized that this was a difficult question, but they all said that well, to talk about it invites attack. I grabbed my brother's hand and pulled myself into his lap. This looks to me like somebody who did in-home daycare. So we may have somebody's wine collection in here, too. I knew suddenly that if I left the room, I would walk into a wide, pink kitchen, and there were crackers on the cupboard, and if I went into that kitchen and pulled the crackers down from the cupboard and said something, said something specific, a sentence, something that was totally, feignlessly me, then I'd be all right. An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love. We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot. George remembers diving and seeing Yassiada for the first time. Executive Editor. Watch Trailer Stream Now. The road, the building, and now my apartment. It's coming right at me. That's Mike DeHaas. I don't even know what to use as a word. It was, of course, the fear talking. There were three people up front. A more common scenario, though, goes like this. White marble tile, creaking wooden furniture, and a shrine in the corner with a young man's picture on it. I was afraid to drink the Sprite. Rosenbaum says that the letter poses some immediate practical questions. Dave's been going to auctions off and on for most of his life. In 1961, when he was in archaeology grad school, he took a break and went to Turkey, put on some scuba gear, and checked out a 1,400 year old shipwreck off the coast of the tiny island of Yassiada. After a week in the autopsy suite, I still couldn't open a Denny's menu without wanting to throw up. I got up and ran towards the woods. Something weve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show. In order to figure out what the hull looked like, Fred had to invent a way to measure the dent in the sand. The room was getting worse. At the same time, it floods the animal's body with adrenaline, making it stronger and more relentless. The doctors put me on Haloperidol, an anti-psychotic, so my hallucinations slowed, and I quieted enough to be unstrapped. And my mother was there. And remember, no one knows what's in the letter. No unit's a sure thing, Lois tells me. And I said, OK, then, why don't you just kind of go ahead? We drove through the city. The driver was hunched over the wheel and wore his hair in a thick afro. 'No,' he said, 'It was not that. [2] That's in the second half of our show from Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International when our program continues. I remember seeing a black bedazzled sombrero somewhere, the kind that Three Amigos wore. Albert Donnay is the person who unearthed this article. I found everything about the Byzantine period just awful. But just as Rush Hour was followed by Rush Hour 2, just as Lethal Weapon 2 led to Lethal Weapon 3, the Fred and George franchise was not over yet. And he says carbon monoxide gas can account for everything that this family experienced. Fred's figured it out. We made turn after turn until we ended up in front of a tall building that looked like all of the other apartment complexes. You can see if a lot of people are interested in it, see how long it's taking them to look. With Ira Glass and Lilly Sullivan, 184 episodes, 245 ratings & reviews. But the growth, marine growth on them, had concealed these inscriptions. It was the tall man. Credit: Stormi Greener, Star Tribune/via . Funny how that happens. Maybe they had followed Betsy's car home from the graveyard and were waiting outside to get me. And so to introduce this next story, I don't think there's much more I need to say right now than hitchhiking is dangerous or can be dangerous. Our story continues about the Michigan couple who walked into a police officer's house and made a disturbing discovery. A quick investigation shows that the furnace is actually sending carbon monoxide fumes into the house, instead of up the chimney. David MacLean fully recovered all his memory, except for the year proceeding his illness.

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