22: The Trove

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mariah travels to a country she's never been to in hopes that she can find a man she's never met: her father. ~41~

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0:00.0	Spoke Media
0:06.4	Hello Ghost Family.
0:08.1	Welcome to Family Ghosts.
0:17.2	For the last few months, one of our producers, Saraya Shockley, has been talking to a woman
0:22.2	from California named Mariah Landers.
0:26.9	And for a while now, Mariah has been on a pretty remarkable journey, one of those where
0:32.4	the destination ends up being completely different than where you think you're headed when you
0:36.8	first set out.
0:41.2	Hello, I'm Injamaica.
0:44.0	It's totally surreal that I'm actually here.
0:47.0	It's beautiful and wonderful.
0:50.3	That's Mariah.
0:51.3	She's reading from a journal entry she wrote in the summer of 2000.
0:55.7	This night flying into Kingston, the city looked magical.
0:59.4	On ground you can see the disparities as we drove past property.
1:03.3	I'm so glad that I'm here and okay, healthy, and clean and safe.
1:09.9	Mariah was drawn to Jamaica by a question that had followed her through her entire life.
1:15.6	A question that had only ever been answered by resolute silence.
1:20.0	A question about her roots.
1:26.7	When I first met Mariah, we were sitting in a makeshift basement studio in Oakland, California.
1:34.2	Just her, me, and the occasional sounds of Bay Area rapid transit.
1:40.2	Sounds like a ghost.
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