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.
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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. You've got mail.
0:49.8	I'm Jason Horton.
0:51.0	I'm Rebecca Lebe.
0:52.1	And this is Ghost Town.
1:10.0	Music I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. In 2012, 19-year-old Eric Simons was enrolled in AOL's four-month startup incubator program, called Imagine K-12, based at its Palo Alto headquarters.
1:21.0	The program awarded him $20,000 to work on his education startup, a generous sum for a teenage entrepreneur.
1:29.3	But most importantly, it gave him a building badge, a generous sum for a teenage entrepreneur. But most importantly,
1:35.9	it gave him a building badge, allowing him to fully access AOL's 80,000 square foot campus.
1:41.2	But perhaps most intriguing and impressive than Simon's scholarship was what happened after,
1:46.3	where Simons continued to full-on squat at AOL headquarters for months after his time there was finished. Today on Ghost Town, the story of Eric Simons and his infiltration
1:52.1	of AOL headquarters. At 19, Eric Simon's time at his AOL startup incubator was done, but he wasn't.
2:00.4	After the four-month program completed,
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