LOVE AND TERROR ON THE HOWLING PLAINS OF NOWHERE

NYC PREMIERE Imagine a This American Life episode devoted to a real-world Twin Peaks, and you might approximate the stranger-than-fiction story of small-town Chadron, Nebraska. Guided by the idiosyncrasies of author Poe Ballantine, Dave Jannetta explores the intriguing mystery behind math professor Steven Haataja, a loner who vanished without a trace soon after coming to town, only to have his body turn up months later in bizarre circumstances, inspiring conspiracy theories from the local townspeople as they search for meaning in the unknowable.