Doctor Francis Mally of Flaherty College's Department of Perceptual Studies interviews a patient who may need more than a few sessions of talk therapy. Enter Parapsychologist Benjamin Nilsson (Ph.D; Para.D), a lifelong aspiring ghostbuster, with experience studying how the human brain interacts with the spirit world and other states of consciousness. Together, they find themselves on the brink of an incredible, if uncomfortable, scientific breakthrough involving conspiracy theories, doomsday asteroids, and even DEMONIC POSSESSION! Tetherton's Folly places the first candidates for a Ghostbusters academic franchise license at the beginning of a new adventure into the world of the paranormal! (Rated PG-13 for suggestive language)

This is the pilot episode for an audio mini-series "Franchise Rites," coming soon from the Ghostbusters Fan Organization "Ghost Signal Corps." (www.franchiserites.com) Starring Mary Mascari, Dan Kelly, Jen Westling, and Ayoub Khote Featuring Patti Moore, Stacy Dooks, and Dave Robison Written by Jay Smith. Engineered by Michael L. Stokes. Based on Characters and situations created by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, Franchise Rites is a non-commercial fan production of Ghostbusters, which is the property of Sony Pictures and Ghost Corps. Join our website and Discord to help our charities. Donate directly to help families dealing with the financial burden that comes with fighting cancer.

A flashback to the "wilderness years" between the end of Extreme Ghostbusters and the "Answer the Call" reboot - 2012 marked the year host of the prolific and informative pop culture podcast "The Chronic Rift" John S. Drew talked to Jay and "Mr. Sci-Fi" Marc Scott Zicree (author of some of the best episodes of The Real Ghostbusters) about the legacy of the franchise and why the animated series was so important to the enduring appeal of the original concept developed by Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis. Zicree talks about the process of writing stories for The Real Ghostbusters back in the 1990s as one of the key writers under J. Michael Straczynski while Jay manages to hold back most of his fanboy glee talking about what the series meant to him growing up. Fortunately, no hosts or screenwriters were roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day. Thanks to John Drew for allowing RFG to use this interesting conversation.

Content of the original episode was altered slightly from the original release. This Creative Commons Licensed episode is repurposed for Radio Free Gozeria with permission from John S. Drew. Fair use is exercised in the use of illustrative clips from various Ghostbusters sources owned by Sony Pictures, DIC Entertainment, and Arista Records, used for non-commercial and transformative purposes throughout with no claim to rights or ownership of the material. A.I. was used for parody purposes to create the episode theme song courtesy of Udio.com and will likely never be used ever again.

Aspiring journalist Jill Woodbine finds herself fending off the undead as she seeks both shelter and the source of a global zombie outbreak. Seeking shelter in a House and Garden warehouse (HG World), Jill finds herself in a potentially more hostile environment and it gets worse as she inches closer to the truth about the outbreak.