The America's Next Top Model Riots (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The runway turned to chaos in 2009.

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0:00.0	Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?
0:05.0	Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?
0:07.0	Faffled by stories of previous lives.
0:10.0	Well so are we.
0:11.0	In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena
0:17.0	and some horrific true crime cases.
0:19.0	Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
0:22.5	and join us every Tuesday,
0:24.6	wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:26.9	And be prepared to be totally and utterly,
0:29.7	perplexed. Riot on the runway.
0:50.1	I'm Jason Horton, and this is Ghost Town.
1:08.5	Music I'm Jason Horton, and this is Ghost Town. In February 22, 2009, Tyra Banks, the host and executive producer of America's Next Top Model,
1:16.2	the reality competition show for aspiring models, made an announcement.
1:21.7	After 12 cycles, Banks said, cycle 13 would be different.
1:26.5	Instead of the requisite model heights, usually around
1:29.5	5-7, 5-8, 5-9, and 6 feet, this season would only feature models 5-7 and shorter. The casting
1:39.2	call would be in March, and Banks said she hoped to see anyone interested at the event in Manhattan.
1:45.2	Though the show was wildly popular at the time, nobody would be prepared for what happened
1:50.0	at the audition. Complete chaos, comprised of angry, violent models, bomb threats, NYPD, and more.
2:00.3	Today on Ghost Town, the America's Next Top Model Riots.
2:04.7	The day of the casting call, a crowd gathered quickly of aspiring contestants, spending hours
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