{
  "title": "CHICKEN SKIN",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "“Between this world and the next hangs a paperthin curtain which sometimes blows gently up,\ngiving us glimpses into the realm of spirits. We all try to peer through the curtain, wondering\nwhat awaits us when we pass into the darkness called death. Join us tonight as we seek to step\nbeyond the curtain, to explore the mysteries we all face as mortals in this brief moment called\nlife. Welcome to an evening of Chicken Skin.”\n“The supernatural runs deep in Hawaii,” writes Kathy Durham in The Mining Company Guide\nTo Honolulu, and no one knew this better than Glen Grant (19??-2003), a folklorist and\nstoryteller who collected accounts of spectral sightings and visitations around the islands for over\ntwenty-five years. “Everyone thinks of Hawaii as simply a resort destination. I want to make\npeople realize the richness of the culture and the folklore.” To this end, he published several\nbooks on the topic, organized ghost tours in Honolulu, and maintained a regular schedule as a live\nperformance artist at a large Honolulu emporium.\nIn 1996 Grant and fellow folklorist James Grant Benton started up the radio show Chicken Skin,\na unique mixture of storytelling, dramatizations, and listener call-ins. Listeners phoned in to ask\nquestions or to relate personal encounters with the supernormal. The plays aired by the group of\nperformers that comprised the Chicken Skin Theater were billed as “the only original radio drama\nin Hawaii.”\n[Honolulu Advertiser, January 25, 2002—“Supernatural shop becomes a gathering spot for\noffbeat” by Derek Paiva] “On the last Sunday evening of each month, Grant does his KCCN 1420\nAM Chicken Skin Radio Show live from The Haunt, allowing patrons to serve sound effects duty\nfor storytelling, or as commentators for International Supernatural News Network, a look at the\nweek’s stranger supernatural happenings around the world.”\nJill Staas, Grant’s former business partner: “Glen was just so talented, so brilliant, and he used\nall he had. He could write, he could tell a story, he was mesmerizing and he was open and giving\nwith all of his talents.”",
  "origination": "KCCN, Honolulu, Hawaii.",
  "duration": "July 7, 1996-???? ??, 2003.",
  "personnel": "James Grant Benton (host, narrator), Glen Grant (host, storyteller), Brother Noland (theme\nsong), Jill Staas (producer).",
  "extant_recordings": "Recordings of all broadcasts exist, but are not currently available for purchase. An\ninterview with Glen Grant can be heard on the April 1997 Dreamland program entitled “Ghostly Encounters\non Supernatural Hawaii,” which can be ordered at the Art Bell web site (www.artbell.com). Grant himself\nalso had two cassettes available of his ghostly storytelling, as well as an audio archives at the Chicken Skin\nwebsite (www.chicken-skin.com/CSRadio.html).",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}