Well. I knew Dan Rather was … strange. I just didn’t know how strange. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.)

Describing his love of CBS and CBS News, Rather observed in the interview last year: “In my mind and the minds of the people I work with, this is a magical, mystical kingdom — our version of Camelot. And we feel we are working at a kind of roundtable of King Arthur proportions. Now, it may be that this kingdom exists only in our minds. But that makes it no less real for those of us who live it every day.”

And then there was this: “Ed Murrow’s ghost is here. I’ve seen him and talked to him on the third floor of this building many times late at night. And I can tell you that he’s watching over us.”

I had a spooky experience too, that Dan might understand. While I was typing the exact copy of the Killian memo in Microsoft Word, seeing the precise alignment of each line, word and letter, and it was sinking in that the CBS documents were obvious, blatant phonies, I got a chill up my spine and the distinct feeling that someone was watching over my shoulder.

Was that you, Ed?