Introducing ... I Was Never There
I Was Never There
Acast Creative Studios
4.6 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Thirty-four years ago, Marsha “Mudd” Ferber vanished without a trace from Morgantown, WV. Mother-daughter duo Karen and Jamie Zelermyer are going back to the land to figure out what the hell happened. From Wonder Media Network, I Was Never There is as much true crime show as it is an ode to Appalachian countercultural movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Named a 2022 Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection for audio storytelling, the series premieres with a bang June 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1985, Marcia Mud Ferber took the stage at the Underground Railroad, a bar she owned in Morgantown, West Virginia, to hold an election. |
| 0:10.9 | Let's hear from Ronald Reagan. |
| 0:13.7 | And I'll give him the choice. Would you vote for Harriet Tubman? |
| 0:18.4 | All right. |
| 0:19.7 | Harriet Tubman is president of the 1, 2, three, Pleasant Street, Morgan Town, West Virginia. |
| 0:24.4 | Marcia was a political radical and a hippie with a flare for the dramatic. |
| 0:29.3 | The first time I saw Marcia, she was walking down high street, singing at the top of her lungs. |
| 0:34.3 | Let's get drunk and screw. |
| 0:35.8 | Everywhere Marcia went, she built community. |
| 0:38.6 | And she was all about redistribution of wealth. |
| 0:41.3 | She'd share her panty. |
| 0:42.4 | She raised the consciousness of West Virginia. |
| 0:45.2 | And then one day in April, 1988, she disappeared. |
| 0:50.9 | Marcia was last seen April 25th. |
| 0:53.6 | All that was missing was her backpack. Her car was left at a |
| 0:57.1 | parking meter, belongings left in an apartment above the bar. I'm Jamie Zellermeyer. I was raised |
| 1:03.5 | communally by a bunch of hippies who had a lot of fun and did a lot of drugs. That's how I knew |
| 1:09.0 | Marsha. Growing up, she was like a second mom to me. |
| 1:12.5 | And I'm Karen Zellermeier, Jamie's back-to-the-land hippie mom. Marcia was one of my best friends. |
| 1:20.0 | We've decided to go back in time, talking to people from her past and hours to try and figure out |
| 1:26.7 | what happened. But the more we spoke to people, |
| 1:30.0 | the more I realized there was a lot of shit going on that I knew nothing about. She was possibly |
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