Cos-Story: Stories of Cosplay and Pop Culture.

Explore the history of pop culture in 1000 moments with short stories the perfect length for your coffee break.

Halloween 1992, and the people of the UK sit down to watch a new programme on ghosts in the Greater London area. Presented as a live documentary, many were taken in by the realism and were terrified by what they saw, with more complaints being to the BBC in hour than ever before. It even caused symptoms of PTSD in children and gained an entry into the British Medical Journal.

This is the story of Ghostwatch, a programme that scared a nation.

Scripted, read and produced by Holly Swinyard

Information for this episode came from the BBC, SyFy, The Independent and The British Medical Journal

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Warnings: This episode contains discussion of a plane crash, death and distressing situations.

The is the story of Pan Am Flight 121 and the impact it made on pop culture for the next 70 years.

Pam Am Flight 121 crashed on the 18th of June 1947, one of the surviving officers risked life and limb to save as many as he could from the wreck. His name was Third Officer Gene Roddenberry. This tragedy would not only change his life but inspire him to create Star Trek and change pop culture history.