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

The Caroline Calloway Con (GT Mini)

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Instagram influencer and writer Caroline Calloway had and has a dramatic and controversial relationship with the internet, and the truth. Website: http://www.ghosttownpod.com New YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1LfkOKwoao Support Ghost Town on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Follow Ghost Town on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/2Y98NVl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A one woman fire fest. I'm stage of my life I'm not introduced to many new things at this point the stage of my life.

0:24.5

I'm not on the pulse of culture, I would say.

0:26.7

But I was introduced to Caroline Calloway through a friend of mine who was fascinated by her and at first glance she's an

0:36.8

Instagram influencer she's 28 right now she has almost 700,000 followers

0:42.0

her Instagram accounts bio is writer almost 700,000 followers.

0:42.6

Her Instagram accounts bio is writer, art historian, and teacher.

0:47.6

And she added to the end of that,

0:49.9

no, not that scam, the one you love.

0:53.4

I love a scam.

0:54.7

You love a hoax.

0:56.4

Yeah, I love a scam.

0:57.4

Absolutely.

0:58.2

And she is, again, I can't tell if I'm bored by her

1:01.6

or insanely interested by her.

1:03.4

It's really hard for me because she symbolizes if you look at her

1:06.9

Instagram every white woman cliche that you have ever known.

1:11.5

But underneath the surface of that she is so compelling and kind of insidious and a little bit irreverent and highly sexual.

1:21.0

There are so many things that are working beneath just the Caroline Calloway masthead, and her, what I found out beyond this and what my friend and I were initially talking about was people found out that she was not

1:35.6

doing what she got famous for. So she didn't get famous for like hawking drink drinks or like you know like protein

1:41.5

hair stuff.

1:42.5

She got famous because she would write these back in 2013,

1:47.0

2012, these long kind of confessional diary like

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