’Tis the season for a spooky, scary Halloween episode ! We’re diving into one of the longest-standing stories we’ve told ourselves across cultures and literal centuries: life doesn't end with death, and some part of us will always linger in the form of an otherworldly being…
This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are swapping ghost stories and paranormal “experiences” while weighing up the arguments for and against the age-old question: are ghosts real? They dive into the massive industry born around ghost hunting, explore how we emotionally cope with the idea of the supernatural, and of course share their ultimate Halloween watch list recs.
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Anomalistic Psychology: What Is It And Why Bother? By Chris French, Psychology Today
Wired for Weird, by Richard Wiseman in Scientific American
Listen: How To Sell A Haunted House, Criminal podcast
Why So Many Of Us See Our Loved Ones After They Have Died, by Shayla Love, Psyche
Many Americans Say They Believe in Ghosts. Do You? by Anna P. Kambhampaty, The New York Times
The Broken Technology Of Ghost Hunting by Colin Dickey, The Atlantic
Watch: Ghost Hunters Stanley Hotel episode
Glad To Be Sad, And Other Examples Of Benign Masochism, by Rozin et al, Cambridge University Press
Jannah's watch reccs: The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor
Alice's watch reccs: Hereditary and Paranormal Activity
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