3rd (lack of) sleep note. Audio at three am but left on the network as always.
[Alex doesn't sleep. It's a problem. So, when she doesn't sleep, she reads the network. That's probably a problem too. But for now, she's focusing on one thing. It's a thing that she probably shouldn't focus on, and that Strand would shake his head at, and it's three in the morning but Alex's chipper, canadian ready for radio voice comes out anyway.]
You know what I love? Ghost stories. It's so weird how there's ghost stories that seem almost universal. Well, [You can hear the smile in her voice here.] Earth-versal I guess? But things like the hitchhiker in the dress that you pick up and then drop off somewhere or she disappears and it turns out that she'd been dead for years and it couldn't have happened. Or the ghosts of children who move cars from where they were tragically killed.
Or dark ladies or monks or banshees that warn of impending doom. Or ghost battles that happen hundreds of years after blood was first spilled on the soil.
[A beat.]
And let's not forget about vengeful ghosts who are going to get you for something you've done wrong in life. There's too many of those to even talk about.
But what I want to know what ghost stories are like in your worlds. You can even tell me your favorite fictional ghost story. Mine is Hamlet. It used to be "A Turn of the Screw" but a friend ruined that by calling it "the best case for apophenia in fiction." So it's not fun anymore.
[And then she laughs.]
Don't worry, I promise not to call anything you've experienced here apophenia. We've all seen way too much for that.
And just in case you don't know, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
You know what I love? Ghost stories. It's so weird how there's ghost stories that seem almost universal. Well, [You can hear the smile in her voice here.] Earth-versal I guess? But things like the hitchhiker in the dress that you pick up and then drop off somewhere or she disappears and it turns out that she'd been dead for years and it couldn't have happened. Or the ghosts of children who move cars from where they were tragically killed.
Or dark ladies or monks or banshees that warn of impending doom. Or ghost battles that happen hundreds of years after blood was first spilled on the soil.
[A beat.]
And let's not forget about vengeful ghosts who are going to get you for something you've done wrong in life. There's too many of those to even talk about.
But what I want to know what ghost stories are like in your worlds. You can even tell me your favorite fictional ghost story. Mine is Hamlet. It used to be "A Turn of the Screw" but a friend ruined that by calling it "the best case for apophenia in fiction." So it's not fun anymore.
[And then she laughs.]
Don't worry, I promise not to call anything you've experienced here apophenia. We've all seen way too much for that.
And just in case you don't know, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
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Well, if it helps it's not exactly like they're just all wandering around doing evil things.
[A beat.]
Yet anyway.
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Going to the park? Surfing? Playing Xbox? Making scrapbooks?
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Wait, what show? Are you an actress? Did I finally kiss someone famous?
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No, I'm terrible at actual acting. I'm a reporter. My show's a podcast and it won an award in 2015. I guess I'm a little famous if it helps. In certain circles. If people like that sort of thing.
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Do you even know what a CD is, or was that before your time?
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I do so know what a CD is. I'm not that young.
And yeah, apple is one of the big forums we release on. The Black Tapes won one of their best of 2015 awards.
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[She'll probably hear the smirk in his voice.]
So what's it about, your podcast? Demons playing Xbox?
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[There's a matching smirk in her own voice.]
Not only did I own them, but I spun them when I was working on the radio in college!
Unfortunately not, but that would be hilarious to hear if it were. It's about investigating cases of the supernatural that can't be scientifically disproven. My friend Richard, he's a rational skeptic, and he has an institute just for it. But unfortunately it's a lot more than that.
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Nerd. Spooky nerd.
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[The grin is audible in her voice.]
Then I'll take it as a compliment.