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The Light She Made: How Frances Survived Nine Days in Darkness
The Light She Made: How Frances Survived Nine Days in Darkness
A licensed dental hygienist sat in total darkness for nine days with her ankles zip-tied to a metal chair while a steady warm light seemed to come from her - and she scratched a map into the concrete floor that tracked trains, whistles and bells. How did Frances Riley survive without power, phone or a way to see, and what did those twelve lines actually mean?
In this episode, we tell what happened from the morning Frances left for her garden notebook to the moment a lineman noticed light in an abandoned building eleven minutes…
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