Ghosts aren't real, at least as a journalist, that's what I've always believed.

Sure, odd things happen in my childhood bedroom, but ultimately, I shrugged it all off.

That is, until a couple of years ago, when I discovered that every subsequent occupant

of that house is convinced they've experienced something inexplicable too, including the

most recent inhabitant who says she was visited at night by the ghost of a faceless woman.

And it gets even stranger, it just so happens that the alleged ghost haunting my childhood

room might just be my wife's great-grandmother, who was murdered in the house next door by two gunshots

to the face. From Wondry and Pineapple Street Studios comes Ghost Story, a podcast about family

secrets, overwhelming coincidence, and the things that come back to haunt us.

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Emma, you recently wrote about a bus ride that Iowa basketball star,

Caitlin Clark, took a few months ago. Can you paint a picture of that bus ride for us and explain

what Caitlin Clark realized at the end of it?

So the woman's team is on the bus back from the airport flying home from Dallas where they

played in the final four, advanced to the first national title game in program history, and lost.

Kill Lucky in year two has orchestrated a turn around for the ages.

They've been on the road for weeks through the tournament.

Had this kind of fairy tale ride that didn't end the way they wanted to.

And the players I think were all just really kind of coming down off this big emotional rollercoaster

and weren't expecting there to be anything there for them because they lost.

But there are so many people that have come out to meet their bus to welcome the team home to Iowa

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