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. A cinematic hoax.
0:49.3	I'm Rebecca Lebe.
0:50.5	I'm Jason Horton.
0:51.6	And this is Ghost Town.
1:08.9	Yeah. I'm Jason Horton, and this is Ghost Town. In 1982, Chuck Ross attempted a curious experiment that would later become a minor legend in Hollywood circles.
1:16.7	Frustrated by the notion that many studio executives and literary agents never actually read the screenplays they received, Ross set out to prove a point.
1:24.9	His method was both bold and deceptively simple. He retyped the
1:29.0	screenplay for Casablanca, the 1942 film widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all
1:35.0	time, word for word. Under the fake title, Everybody Comes to Ricks, which was the name of the
1:42.1	unproduced play that originally inspired the film.
1:45.3	Ross sent this newly disguised classic to various agents and studios, curious to see if anyone
1:50.4	would recognize it. He retyped the script, renamed Rick's sidekick from Sam to Duley,
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