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Hello, Ghost Family. Welcome to Family Ghosts.

Friends, Family Ghosts was created based on this feeling that I had, that there were stories

in my own family, that I couldn't make sense of. Stories told and retold after dinner

at holidays, after everyone had drunk a little red wine. Stories about things like jewel

thieves and long lost uncles, that I couldn't get out of my head after everyone left the

table and went to bed. I would sit by myself, ruminating on what I'd heard, wondering

how these stories could possibly be true, and if they were, if the truth behind them

might help me make sense of things about my life that I couldn't fit together. And

so, the idea for this show originally, was that in every episode, we'd hear a story

like that from someone's family, and then try to figure out the truth behind the legend.

But as we find ourselves here, in the midst of the third season of Family Ghosts, I've

been realizing that our show is also an opportunity to do something slightly different, because

sometimes people aren't haunted by stories, but instead by the absence of a story. They

live in a reality that seems like it must have some sort of story behind it, but the only

people who know that story are gone, or they're still around, but they aren't willing to

talk. More and more on the show, I find that we're making episodes about people trying

to weave their own story from whatever stray threads of their history they have access

to.

I want to tell you about this ring that I'm wearing. It's a silver-signet ring with the

letters WALT etched into the surface. WALT is the name of the radio station that produces

Family Ghosts, and I should note that WALT is a radio station I made up. Sometimes people

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