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StoryCorps: Joy Kahahawai and Kim Farrant
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch at their StoryCorps interview in Honolulu on June 17, 2022, Credit: Ben DeHaven for StoryCorps
Sisters Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch remember their uncle, Joseph Kahahawai, who was murdered in Hawaii in 1932.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: Alan Amen and Ron Amen
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alan and Ron Amen at their StoryCorps interview in Dearborn, Michigan on August 10, 2012., Credit: Erin Dickey for StoryCorps.
Ron Amen speaks with his brother, Alan, about their bond, and how it persevered even after Ron was drafted in the Vietnam War.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 30:24
StoryCorps: Rodger Patience and Kirby Metoxen
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Rodger Patience and Kirby Metoxen at their StoryCorps interview in Green Bay, Wisconsin on January 27, 2022. , Credit: Carl Romey for StoryCorps.
Kirby Metoxen and his priest Father Rodger Patience talk about the forced removal of Oneida children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:21
The Jaws of Darkness Do Devour
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons....

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Patsy Rembert and Winfred Rembert
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Patsy and Winfred Rembert at their StoryCorps interview in Hamden, CT in April of 2017. , Credit: By Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.
73-year-old Winfred Rembert is one of the only people ever known to have survived a lynching. At StoryCorps, he sat down with his wife, Patsy, to r...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
Skinwalker Ranch
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Multimedia Artist Paul Rucker Shines Light on America's Dark History
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...

Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Historical and Current Extremes are Mighty Grim(m). #527
From: Teosson Wells
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Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid. Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
A visit to San Quentin Museum
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lt. Robinson points out the warden who died at his desk, Credit: Chris Hambrick
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:27
Black Hole of Calcutta
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Leroy Moton Remembers Viola Luizzo Murder as Civil Rights Turning Point
From: Sara Karl
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Reenacting The Last Mass Lynching in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lucinda Marker and John Tull
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Joel Healy and Kelli Healy Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Shot At Germantown
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
War brings on tales of predictive dreams and wondrous signs.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:22
Dolph Heylinger
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A New Amsterdam doctor has bought some property way out of town (roughly 23rd St.) and the locals claim it's haunted. Dolph, an adventurous young m...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
The Party From Gibbet Island
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Before it was Ellis Island it was Gibbet Island as that was the location of the gallows used for pirates and mutineers. This is a tale of the dead ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
Amongst the Ruins
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: The courtyard for the violently insane, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, NH, Credit: Christopher Payne
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 07:34
The Guardian of the Murder House
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: The Villisca Axe Murder House
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.

Bought by KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Marfa Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 10
Inside the Glore
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: A Tranquilizer Chair inside the Glore
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 13:48
  • Purchases: 6