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9/11 Stories

by Eric Racheff

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9/11 Stories #13 – The Voicemail – CeeCee Lyles.

October 23, 2026 · 11 min

You spent six years on the Fort Pierce police force, working your way up to detective. Then you became a flight attendant, the job you’d always wanted. On the morning of September 11th, you board United Flight 93 in Newark, bound for San…
9/11: Stories #12 – The Fireball - Lauren Manning

October 16, 2026 · 12 min

You’re running late. A phone call has put you half an hour behind, and you’re hurrying up Washington Street, trying to hail a cab. You’re forty years old, with a ten-month-old son at home and nearly ten years at Cantor Fitzgerald behind…
9/11 Stories #11 - Jason Thomas: The Uniform

October 8, 2026 · 13 min

Jason Thomas had been off active duty in the Marine Corps for only a few weeks when the morning of September 11th began, and his uniform was still in the back of his truck. By the time the North Tower fell, he had put it on and driven into…
9/11: Stories #10 - Genelle Guzman-McMillan: The Voice

October 2, 2026 · 13 min

On the morning of September 11th, Genelle Guzman was sixty-four floors up in the North Tower, moving down the stairwell with everyone else, counting floors like everyone else. She made it to the 13th before the tower came down around her…
9/11 Stories #9 - Welles Crowther: The Red Bandana

September 24, 2026 · 15 min

He was a Wall Street trader with an office on the 104th floor of the South Tower — but underneath that, he was still the kid who'd carried a red bandana in his pocket since he was six, still the volunteer firefighter who never quite let…

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9/11 Stories #8 - Jan Demczur: The Squeegee

September 20, 2026 · 11 min

He came to New York for a few weeks and never left — eventually landing a job washing windows a hundred floors above the street, in a building he came to think of as a second home. On September 11th, an ordinary elevator ride trapped him…
9/11 Stories: #7 - Firefighter Stephen Siller

September 18, 2026 · 9 min

An off-duty firefighter was on his way to spend the day with his brothers when he heard the news that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. What he chose to do next became one of the most enduring stories of that entire…
9/11 Stories #6 - Rick Rescorla

September 16, 2026 · 9 min

He spent years warning that this exact building was still a target — and running drills nobody wanted to do because of it. When the moment actually came, everything he'd built paid off in ways nobody could have predicted. Sponsored and…
9/11: Stories #5 - Richard Eichen & Lucy Gonzalez

September 14, 2026 · 7 min

Two strangers on the same floor of the North Tower, ninety flights between them and the street below. What happened between the moment they found each other and the moment the building came down. Sponsored and Produced by The Conspiracy…
9/11 Stories #4 - Officer Moira Smith

September 11, 2026 · 7 min

She was the first officer in the city to radio in the attack — then spent her final hour guiding hundreds of people out of the South Tower before going back in one last time. Sponsored and Produced by The Conspiracy PodcastYour Host, Eric…
9/11 Stories #3 - John O'Neill

September 11, 2026 · 8 min

For twenty-five years, one man spent his career warning the government about a threat almost nobody wanted to take seriously. Days before September 11th, he started a brand new job — one with an irony he couldn't have scripted…
9/11 Stories #1 - Paige, Ruth and Juliana

September 11, 2026 · 9 min

This is the true story of Paige Farley-Hackel and Ruth and Juliana McCourt. In the pre-dawn dark at Logan Airport, two best friends say goodbye before boarding two different flights to the same reunion in California. A simple decision — a…

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About the show

Short, true accounts of the people who lived through September 11th — passengers, first responders, office workers, family members waiting on the other end of the phone. Each episode tells one person's story: what an ordinary Tuesday morning turned into, and how they got through it, or didn't. Released to mark 25 years since the attacks, from the team behind The Conspiracy Podcast.