E646 - The Secret of My Death

Cryptic messages on a cell phone and a teeter-totter at a construction site: these are clues people found, trying to make sense of a death.

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(00:00:00) Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to a guy about a crazy experiment he devised when he was a kid. It almost killed him. (5 minutes)

(00:06:45) Act One: We begin with a woman whose sister has died. She has questions. Her name is Nadia Bowers, and she wrote this to someone she thinks might be of help. (17 minutes)

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