337: The Million Lives Book Festival Disaster
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A Baltimore book festival proves disasterous in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees? |
| 0:05.0 | Are you interested in exploring the paranormal? |
| 0:07.0 | Faffled by stories of previous lives. |
| 0:10.0 | Well so are we. |
| 0:11.0 | In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena |
| 0:17.0 | and some horrific true crime cases. |
| 0:19.0 | Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok |
| 0:22.5 | and join us every Tuesday, |
| 0:24.6 | wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | And be prepared to be totally and utterly, |
| 0:29.7 | perplexed. An open book. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm Rebecca Leeb. |
| 0:51.9 | And this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah. Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. If this podcast is proof of anything, it's that immersive experiences, conventions, and large-scale events are not to be trusted. |
| 1:30.1 | From Glasgow's Willy Wonka experience to Detroit's Bridgeton Ball, to DashCon, to Woodstock 99, to the Mr. Beast immersive experience, that's a recent one from a couple of weeks ago, these big, over-the-top events not only don't deliver, but they can be |
| 1:35.7 | dangerous, traumatizing, and quite frankly, predatory. Today we're talking about a great event |
| 1:42.8 | that went completely without issue. Just kidding. Of course |
| 1:46.3 | today's episode is about an event that went horribly wrong. This episode of Ghost Town, |
| 1:51.3 | The Disasterous A Million Lives Book Festival, a fantasy romance event that became the Firefest |
| 1:58.3 | of the literary world. A Million Lives was marketed as a convention for authors |
| 2:03.9 | of Romantasy, an extremely popular genre on book talk, which is book talk on TikTok, which is also |
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