Hello and welcome to the Travelcast, Episode 501.

The Travelcast is an audio fiction podcast magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners

such as yourself. I'm your host, Norm Sherman. On this week's show, we've got a paranormal

murder mystery for you. Some things would be a lot easier if you were a ghost. There's no doubt.

Seeing inside trees, for example, biting people in the arm, and solving murders.

The downside, though, is death, which is a heavy price to pay to know what's going on in a sycamore.

Nope. What you want to be able to do is communicate with ghosts, literally getting the best of both worlds,

ours and whatever the fuck theirs is if they exist.

Honestly, that's all I'd want to talk about if I was a medium.

Who cares about reuniting loved ones with some deceased aunt?

I'm going to ask your aunt what the fuck is going on over there.

Um, your niece would like to know what year it is in ghost time

and what system of governance holds your society together.

What? I didn't ask that. She says she

very much misses you and wants to know if there are any types of natural predators where you are,

and if a million ghosts can stand in the same place. That's not what I didn't. I'm hearing your

aunt tell you to shut up. Will you give us a sign if black holes are where you live? Knock once

if black holes are ghost civilizations, and knock twice if tornadoes are when you

guys fight. I want my money back.

Shh, don't you want to know about black holes?

My brother and I have a ghost pact. We've always said when one of us dies and they put that

white sheet over us at the hospital to prep us for being a ghost. We have to, no matter what,

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