A TRUE CRIME PODCAST…
In October of 2011, 4 college students disappeared in the woods near Porter Township, Pennsylvania while researching a documentary on children’s author Jakob Stanley. They remain missing to this day.
Recently, their recordings appeared online.
In an effort to aid in the investigation, the families of those missing have agreed to release the recovered sound files.
“Tell me a story: The True Life of Jakob Stanley” is a serialized, found-footage, biweekly podcast.
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The following is the podcast description as written by its creators:
TELL ME A STORY: THE “TRUE” LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY is a documentary about the life of beloved 1980s children’s author Jakob Stanley, whose collections of horror short stories and poems outsold every other children’s book for almost two decades. As his mainstream popularity waned, Stanley’s work, now out of print, reached cult status among a community of die-hard horror fans. The reclusive Jakob Stanley seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth … until a short two-line death announcement appeared in a small town Pennsylvania paper.
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcasters and participants, and do not represent the official policy or position of the Iphigenia County Police Department of Porter Township Pennsylvania or its associates.
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Episode 2 Notes: Shit. We are spending the night. | K so, we interviewed Jane. It was interesting. *We should let Jane review the full interview to let us know what she is comfortable with. BUT right as we were leaving, Jane drops the bomb on us – that I daren’t even write down for fear it will end up being bullshit – with a massive “catch” attached to it. The catch, you ask? – Yes, that’s right, us spending the night. … So, here we are.
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcasters and participants, and do not represent the official policy or position of the Iphigenia County Police Department of Porter Township Pennsylvania or its associates.
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Episode 3 Notes: YES, again. | This morning Jane was several hours late, so we did not get to the camper van until way after we planned. But it still was cool as shit. There wasn’t much there, but there were some folios containing a few illustrations, might be from the same guy who did his last book… a few VHS tapes.. etc. Met Jane’s neighbor, he said he would try to get the camper running for us. BUT that means another night at the Homestead. 2night we are making Tolen buys us all of the alcohols.
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcasters and participants, and do not represent the official policy or position of the Iphigenia County Police Department of Porter Township Pennsylvania or its associates.
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Produced by:
Silvia Whitaker
Research Team:
Jordan Tierney, Iracel Rivero, Rocio Mendez, Christopher Yustin, Alyssa Simon, Rebecca Comtois, Adam Files, and Pete Boisvert
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