Ghost Hunting: Spirits and the History of Seeking Them
Happy Halloween from Boyfriend Explains! In this special holiday episode, Ethan Evans and Patrick Jacquinot start with a recent real-life spooky story before launching into a sweeping history of how beliefs about spirits have evolved across human culture.
We’re tracing the history of ghosts from ancient Mesopotamian ancestor rites and Egyptian burial rituals through medieval Christian visions of purgatory and the dark allure of Gothic literature. Then, we dive into the explosive 19th-century rise of Western Spiritualism, following the path from Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer to the…
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