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.

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And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

perplexed. Dinner is served. I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

And this is Ghost Town.

Music I'm Rebecca Leab. And this is Ghost Town. We've talked through lots of fails, great and small, on this show, but I've got one that you

might not want to be eating for. Colgate's epically unpopular, and maybe even fake, line of

frozen dinners. And it is exactly as bizarrely nauseating as you might expect. Now, there is much contention

whether this line of products was real or fake, but whatever the truth, it has people

hypothesizing just how far a company might go to reinvent itself, or to hide a track record of failures after the fact.

You be the judge today as we talk about the history, and it's a short one, of Colgate's kitchen

dinners.

In 1806, William Colgate, an English immigrant to the United States, and devout Baptist, established a starch, soap, and candle factory in New York City.

The business continued into the late 1800s, when in 1873, the company introduced its first Colgate toothpaste, an aromatic toothpaste sold in jars.

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