You’re listening to Short and Interesting – the podcast that reads to you short excerpts from old, weird, interesting books. If you want to hear the worst, most depressing advice ever, you’re in luck today. We’re covering “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found,” by Doug Richmond. Here’s how you can destroy your identity, disappear, and create a new, fake life to inhabit. This might have worked in 1986, but in 2025? Forget about it.

This work is was published by Loompanics Unlimited in 1986 and is still protected by copyright. We are presenting selected excerpts in the spirit of fair use in order to stimulate public discussion. Why not buy a copy for yourself? It’s for sale, among other places, at https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/how-disappear-completely-and-never-be-found?srsltid=AfmBOoq62MWmsIraEpsie8GK1cgYbw2d2e9XS3xWMNZHql_92uMw4Cs1

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