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

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

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

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, True Crime, History, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

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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