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