Hey there, it's Mark Pagan from Radiotopia Presents, and I want to tell you about a new series

from our fellow Radiotopia show, Radio Diaries. It's called the Unmark Graveyard.

In the waters off New York City, there's a narrow strip of land called Heart Island.

More than a million people are buried there, and mass graves with no headstones.

Over the next few weeks, the award-winning team at Radio Diaries will be untangling mysteries

from America's largest public cemetery. Neil Harris was last seen and in

New York on December 12th. So many questions man, so many questions.

You can't help but wonder what her life has been.

I never went back and I never looked well again.

Subscribe to Radiotiries wherever you get your podcasts.

From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to the heart.

I'm Caitlin Prest.

Underneath every story,

there are a hundred other stories.

The story of the muses, the makers, the competitors, and the gatekeepers.

The constraints around an artist's life that yield creation.

And the unlikely places inspiration takes hold.

What inspired me about documentary making over a decade ago when I began

was that at its core, documentary is a quest to capture truth.

And the more I create these elaborately woven attempts at the truth,

the more I feel the need to tell the story underneath the story.

The story of us, the artists and writers who create this work and

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