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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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An employee lived for and at his job in 2012.
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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. 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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