Dispatches from 1918
Radiolab
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What Happened to the Virus in 1918?
Molly Webster: I don't think I ever would have come across these stories in any other moment in time, like in my own heart and head. Wegiborx were flying off the shelves. People did go to seances. People thought maybe my brother or mother or cousin or whoever else I lost was out there floating around in this space called the ether. And so explorations of the ether via radio might be the way in which we could connect with the dead.
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