Introducing season two of Family Ghosts, a podcast that takes a closer look at the legendary

tales that shape our family histories. The Irish Times says it feels like listening to an

especially fascinating acquaintance telling a long story in a pub through the lens of a 1990s

American high school comedy. It's a new season. New episodes come out every Wednesday.

Here's stories such as the missing container of Chinese food that has haunted a family for 25 years.

This is the first part of the first episode in a three episode series on the Love Family Cult,

a family built on 1960s ideals that quickly devolved into a dictatorial cult.

To listen to the rest of the episode and hear the story of the love family cult from the people

who live through it, search for Family Ghosts wherever you get your podcasts.

Today we begin the second season of Family Ghosts and as our team thought about the questions we

wanted to explore in our stories this season, I kept coming back to the watch word of our show.

Every house is haunted. And I got to thinking that phrase begs a question which is

can you even have a family without ghosts? And what would happen if you tried to create one?

The first spark that led to the love family being what it is was an LSD experience.

In 1967, Brian Allen dropped out of the University of California and moved to San Francisco.

And when he got there, he was crashing on a friend's floor with another guy who was also new in town.

That guy's name was Paul Erdman and Brian wasn't sure what to make of him at first.

He was always kind of a little bit of a hustler salesman even then and always really.

Paul suggested that he and Brian should get their own apartment and be roommates.

He also suggested that Brian should put up all the money for the rent and the security deposit,

which Brian did reluctantly. But they found a place and shortly after they moved in,

they took some LSD together. What we ended up doing is turning face to face,

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