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At Friday’s sentencing, Bernstein’s mother said she was haunted by the thought that her son was made “to die looking at an Atomwaffen mask.”

That trauma still haunts her - but her unexpected global fame has given her a new lease on life.

The track is alive with phantom creaks and a chilling atmosphere; it sounds like it was recorded in the attic of a haunted house.

Maybe she's also a stand-in for a nation perpetually haunted by the Troubles, the violent escalation between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestant loyalists through which “Say Nothing” travels.

“This had haunted me for 70 years. The poor lady who phoned me, I felt sorry for her.”