Late Night AM Radio, a Mythic Adventure

Driving out of the hills at 3:30 am to catch my morning flight in Scranton, I was treated to AM radio at it’s strangest. Testimonies of werewolf and bigfoot sightings, and an interesting series of coincidental sightings in dining rooms of ghosts and even a red hatted dwarf. Dining rooms: the place where the family complex gathers and potentially gets digested.

None of these stories would seem out of place in an analytic encounter, for the psyche does whatever it takes to get our attention. Getting the hair on the back of our neck to stand up works pretty well. Clearly having a “safe” place such as the anonymous AM airwaves with a like-minded audience to share these experiences was useful to the listeners. Many related the it took them many years to share their secret experience. Others ran into town only to find folks looking back at them in disbelief.

The question I had as I was winding my way through airport security: how could this format aid folks in integrating these mysterious issues?