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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Six Impossible Episodes: U.S. Ghost Towns

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We've had a lot of listener requests related to ghost towns, so this Halloween season, we've got six places in the U.S. that could be labeled as such. But not not all are empty today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.0

Are there any pictures of you online?

0:06.2

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

0:10.2

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

0:15.8

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

0:21.5

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

0:27.2

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

0:31.5

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

0:35.1

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being

0:39.3

told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works. Listen to KillSwitch

0:44.9

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Malcolm Gladwell here,

0:52.1

this season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama,

0:58.0

where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.

1:01.7

And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.

1:04.5

That's probably not long enough.

1:06.5

And I didn't kill him.

1:08.3

From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders.

1:12.5

Listen to Revisionous History, the Alabama murders on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:20.7

When news broke earlier this year that Baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment.

1:28.1

It represented a milestone for both researchers and patients.

1:31.6

But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators.

1:35.6

I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson,

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