Fiction
WRA33 Ghost Radio · a scripted 1930s broadcast
Scripted audio drama
History first. Then the ghost.
Dead air is so alive
Court files, coroner's reports, newspapers, census pages. Read aloud, cited, left to stand on their own.
Uncategorized · 12 min
On the evening of April 25, 1890, three people sat around a table in a Baltimore boarding house and asked a piece of wood…
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Signal
Primary sources read on air
Literary Ghosts · 10 min
The Locked Chest of Emily Dickinson: Letters, Ghosts, and the Poet Who Haunted Herself By The Archivist | The Haunted Record* —…
New Orleans · 11 min
At 1140 Royal Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a three-story Empire-style mansion stands behind ornate wrought-iron balconies, its pale facade unremarkable…
Massachusetts · 13 min
The Colonial Inn sits at 48 Monument Square in Concord, Massachusetts — half a mile from the North Bridge where the first…
Fiction
Scripted audio drama · not a historical account
WRA33 Ghost Radio
A 1930s broadcast that never existed, written and performed. Kept apart from the archive on purpose.
One story from the record, every other week.
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