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All right, let's go. And this is you can see me in the dark. You can see me in the dark.

Can sadness and grief take form?

Can it create ghosts?

Or does trauma and pain invite in the ghosts

that would thrive in such a dark

and perfect environment? Will doesn't have these answers, but he does have a tragic story

of a young family seemingly cursed with disaster, and how a book from the library may have set

off a dangerous chain reaction. For sensitive listeners, the story touches on gun violence,

so please listen with care.

You can see me in Fortuna, California.

In June I'll be 63 but nearly 50 years ago when I was, we lived outside of Bollabranch, Mississippi,

in a town called Lewisburg.

There was a shooting accident, and my six-year-old brother was killed in that accident.

Boy, right after that, our house caught fire, and then my parents got divorced and

It all kind of happened it seemed it seemed like three months, but you know it could have been six months

It happened it happened rather quickly my father had

We had these space heaters and they had coils in them and they were electric and you turn them on and it would just they would glow red and

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