Segment 1: Kansas City storytellers try to scare us.
Scary stories take many forms. We got some of the best storytellers in town to share their favorite haunting tales.
- Nathan Louis Jackson, playwright
- Kaite Stover, librarian
- Jose Faus, poet
Segment 2: Why are there so many ghost towns, and why are they so haunting?
Ghost towns everywhere. There are 141 in the state of Kansas alone. This conversation includes travelers who love abandoned places, the history of how they got that way, and the saga of one nearby ghost town that's determined to come back from the dead.
- Gary Speck, author, Ghost Towns Yesterday and Today and Dust in the Wind: A Guide to American Ghost Towns
- Deborah Bryan, physician and leading advocate for the revitalization of White Cloud
- Caitlin Morton, contributing editor, Conde Nast Traveler