Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

Well so are we.

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

and some horrific true crime cases.

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

and join us every Tuesday,

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

perplexed. An open book.

I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leeb.

And this is Ghost Town.

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.

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

dangerous, traumatizing, and quite frankly, predatory. Today we're talking about a great event

that went completely without issue. Just kidding. Of course

today's episode is about an event that went horribly wrong. This episode of Ghost Town,

The Disasterous A Million Lives Book Festival, a fantasy romance event that became the Firefest

of the literary world. A Million Lives was marketed as a convention for authors

of Romantasy, an extremely popular genre on book talk, which is book talk on TikTok, which is also

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