Exile Island: Kalaupapa National Historic Sit...

In 1996, a troubled 16-year-old boy named Rod Ferrell believed he was a 500-year old-vampire. He formed a small group of local teens in Murray, Kentucky obsessed with vampire roleplaying, blood drinking, and occult beliefs. The roleplaying took a serious turn when Rod broke into ...  Show more

In October 1985, 17-year-old Missy Avila left her home in California's San Fernando Valley to spend the afternoon with friends and never came home. Three days later, two hikers made a horrifying discovery in Angeles National Forest. As Missy's family desperately searched for answ ...  Show more

In this two-part special, we remember a community of forgotten people cast out to a remote Hawaiian island. http://donate.storycorps.org/podcastSee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship ...  Show more

This week, Paul travels to the island paradise of Molokai, Hawaii. From 1866 to 1969 thousands of men, women, and children diagnosed with leprosy were forcibly exiled to this island to die here in anonymity. Two Catholic saints, Fr. Damien de Veuster and St. Marianne Cope ministe ...  Show more

The Hawaiian islands are rich in beauty, folklore and mystery. It is on these islands that legends have persisted and even pointed to as the reasons for strange and unusual occurrences, and how people disappear there under strange circumstances. For sponsorship and direct podcast ...  Show more

In the second part of our Kalaupapa story, we hear how people exiled from society reconnected with family – and found a new community. donate.storycorps.org/podcastSee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your ...  Show more