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

The AOL Squatter (GT Mini)

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

An employee lived for and at his job in 2012.


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Transcript

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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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