21: Collateral For Ten Million

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kierran grew up hearing stories about her grandfather's adventures owning diamond mines, tangling with the mafia, robbing banks, and other wild tales. But as she's gotten older, Kierran's starting to realize some of those stories might be total B.S. And if they are, she wants to know why everyone was so willing to let him get away with it. ~41~

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0:00.0	Spoke Media
0:06.4	Hello Ghost Family. Welcome to Family Ghosts.
0:10.0	So what are you looking for, for us to say?
0:19.5	What are we looking for? Where? In the car?
0:22.5	We're just going to walk.
0:25.7	Last summer, we met the Peterson family at their home on Long Island.
0:29.9	It's a few hours east of New York City in the suburbs.
0:32.6	They were gathered up for a family birthday.
0:34.9	And some producers from the Family Ghost team joined them.
0:38.1	And you all were coming to my birthday?
0:40.4	So it's a tradition around family that every single time
0:43.1	someone's birthday, you say what your favorite thing about them is.
0:46.0	So if you can tell Colleen what your favorite, no, no.
0:50.2	The Peterson's are a big, tight-knit clan.
0:53.2	They have lots of family parties, lots of traditions.
0:56.0	Like every Easter, they do something they call a road rally.
0:58.5	Uncle Rob writes rhyming clues based on local history and family lore.
1:02.5	And then the rest of the family drives around town, figuring out where the clues lead.
1:06.8	Even though it's Easter, they don't pick up eggs.
1:08.8	They pick up little tokens for their team, like the green team finds all the green ones.
1:13.0	And the tokens are made of tape and PVC pipe.
1:16.0	So they once got in trouble for leaving one at an airport.
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