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Ghosts Were People TooA podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities. Author: Annabelle Bonebrake and Quest Zeidler
Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties! Join your hosts Quest and Annabelle on cultural ghost tour in Ghosts Were People Too, a podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities. Language: en-us Genres: Documentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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17 - Ouija Boards (Happy Halloween 2025!)
Monday, 27 October, 2025
In this Halloween special, Quest and Annabelle talk about the poetics, play, and "dangers" of the Ouija board.Make contact:@ghostswerepeopletoo (tumblr/instagram)gwp2pod@gmail.comBibliography:“‘The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present’: Channeling, Television, and the New Age” by Hugh Urban, in Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, ed. Cathy Gutierrez“Parlor Games: Play and Social Life in the Haunted House” in Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture by Simone Natale“Wars and Ouija: Spiritualism in the Twentieth Century” in Calling the Spirits by Lisa Morton“An Aesthetic History of the Ouija Board’ by Jesse Ryan Erickson, in Printing History“James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and the Poetics of Ouija” by Helen Sword in American Literature, vol. 66, no. 3, 1994 https://doi.org/10.2307/2927604
