A listener note, this episode contains references to suicide and drug addiction.

It may not be suitable for all audiences.

It's April 8, 1994, at Seattle Rock Station KXRX FM.

DJ Marty Reamer is getting ready for his morning shift on air.

Part of the prep work involves screening calls to the station,

but he knows that the phone lines aren't usually busy this early in the morning.

So when the phone does ring, Marty's a little surprised.

On the other end of the line, an unnamed man tells Marty that he has a scoop of the century.

Apparently, Kurt Cobain has just been found dead in his Seattle home.

Kurt is the lead singer of the rock band Nirvana and one of the most famous musicians on the

planet.

Marty figures this is just a prank call and hangs up,

but seconds later, the man calls again.

Marty's getting irritated now, but the caller is insistent.

He tells Marty that a friend of his is a contractor

who was hired to install a new security system in Kurt's house,

and he was the one who discovered Kurt's body.

Marty is still pretty sure that this guy's a prankster, but at this point he decides that

checking in with the Seattle police wouldn't hurt. So he calls and asks if there's been any

activity near the Cobain house. The cops don't offer a lot of details, but they do tell

Marty that a police cruiser was dispatched to the house this morning. This new information

starts to change Marty's mind about the anonymous caller. All of a sudden, the so-called

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