TG 0102 The Whispering
From Matthew Nielson | Part of the Troublesome Gap series | 13:43
The Conservation Group from Eco wakes the next morning, lost in the mountains, and try to make sense of it all.
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We follow Pax, Jamal, Lista and Dani as they wake up the morning after the event dazed and confused. Cassie tells her team about a recurring dream.
Consider Amsu
From Queen Mother Imakhu MuNefert | Part of the Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People series | 05:00
Imakhu's hilarious version of an ancient Egyptian story about the hapless god named "Amsu."
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Imakhu's hilarious version of an ancient Egyptian story about the hapless, misunderstood god named "Amsu" and his misfortune with humans.
Certain Death Cola
From Roy Trumbull | 14:50
What if all the bad stuff about drinking cola were spelled out on the label under the image of a skull?
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A team of entrepreneurs invents a product so deadly to the soft drink industry that they have no choice but to buy them out.
Amongst the Ruins
From Avishay Artsy | 07:34
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary after all.
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Among the horror film formulas of gothic monsters, aliens, slashers and the undead is one that now stands out as unfeeling: the insane asylum. Little wonder, given that these mysterious architectural giants loomed behind iron gates in dozens of American towns. Hollywood brought us inside, painting mental institutions as places of misery and despair. Think of "Shock Corridor," "The Snake Pit," or the more recent thriller "Session 9." Hollywood trumped up the terror of insane asylums, but they were originally built for healing, as places of safety as well as madness. Among the earliest of the mental hospitals was the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane in Concord. An acute psychiatric care facility and a children’s unit still operate there. About half of the old buildings have been converted to state offices or storage units, while the rest sit empty. Producer Avishay Artsy went to unlock the history of this decaying institution.
Interview with the Gargoyle Lady
From Artur Sapek | 03:17
This was one of my first interviews. Lizzie and I talked with Gail Niwicky, the owner of the Gargoyle Statuary in the U District.
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Gail Niwicky (sp) granted us this interview with her and her shop assistant at her store the Gargoyle Statuary, located on 45th and University ave in Seattle, Washington. Discussed is the supernatural and the paranormal.
Inside the Glore
From Michael Paul Mason | 13:48
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.
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It's been called "one of the 50 most unusual museums in the country," but the word unusual doesn't cut it. The Glore Psychiatric Museum is a testament to man's failed attempts to understand mental illness.
Inside the Glore, we're taken on a bizarre yet vivid ride into the history of psychiatric treatment. We bear witness to unusual treatment protocols, ranging from restraint cages to human-sized gerbil wheels. In the terrible contraptions, we also sense an oddly persistent theme--man's terrible failure to adequately care for the mentally ill.
After venturing into the Glore, we meet Rolf Gainer, a psychologist, who discusses our current system of mental health treatment, and speculates about the future of treating mental disorders.
Let's Celebrate The Rain!
From Walker Mettling | Part of the The Telephone Story Chain series | 04:49
Jeremy describes a nearly naked run in with men with steel pipes on Elysian Fields one stormy afternoon in New Orleans.
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This is part of an upcoming series called "The Telephone Story Chain." It's a show of stories told over the phone, each story teller passing the next story off to a friend or aquaintence. The show zig-zagging across the country through the phone lines.
The Secret Collection of the Muldoon Sisters
From Harald Heinzinger | 23:54
Two eldery sisters are collecting shrunken heads
Two elderly sisters find a shrunken head in the basement of their house. When one of them gets attacked by an escaped convict, she defends herself and kills him. They use his head for to create a new shrunken head. With the time, the Muldoon sisters take a fancy to their new hobby. More and more unpleasant contemporaries disappear.
Through a Door
From Sarah Boothroyd | 07:48
A haunted and historical soundscape.
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The Nicholas Street Jail in Ottawa was built in 1862, shut down in the 1970s, and described by a jail inspector in 1946 as "a monstrous relic of an imperfect civilization where cells are medieval, incredibly cramped, with conditions far below the limits of human decency." How could a place like this not have a story to tell?
This work was commissioned in 2007 by CBC Radio's Outfront and the Deep Wireless Festival, a festival produced in Toronto by New Adventures in Sound Art.
The Ghosts of the Driskill Hotel
From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | 04:04
The Driskill hotel in downtown Austin, an iconic 1800's structure, has become a legendary stop for amateur ghost hunters. Kealing Middle School youth reporters investigate. Produced by students from Kealing Middle School for Stories From Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.
The Driskill hotel in downtown Austin, an iconic 1800's structure, has become a legendary stop for amateur ghost hunters. Kealing Middle School youth reporters investigate. Produced by students from Kealing Middle School for Stories From Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.
Secret of Macarger's Gulch
From Roy Trumbull | 18:01
A falling apart cabin in a gulch reveals part of its secret to a travelling hunter who spends the night there. He learns the rest later.
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A falling apart cabin in a gulch reveals part of its secret to a travelling hunter who spends the night there. He learns the rest later.
