The Man In The Attic

October 31, 2012

The Man In The Attic

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Amber Dawn, a listener, wrote to tell us: "In my twentieth year, I moved to a quiet mountain town in Washington to be close to my brother and his family. I rented a one-bedroom apartment down the street from his house. There I lived for six months, until I discovered a man living in my crawl space." The story first aired in 2010, and is still one of the show’s most popular ones.

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