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Ghosts Were People Too
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.
Episodes
Ghosts Were People Too21 - Whaley House Halloween Special Part 2
How do we perform spectrality? How does marketing impact our experiences of haunted destinations? Go on an archival webquest with us and reconstruct…
Ghosts Were People Too20 - Whaley House Halloween Special - Part 1
In this two-part Halloween special, we talk about America’s Most Haunted House®, The Whaley House in San Diego, CA. Join us on this walking tour of haunted…
Ghosts Were People Too19 - Macbeth Part 2: Red-Handed, Ghosts and Guilt
Banquo! Lady Macbeth! Shakesqueer! The Monster's Body Is a Cultural Body! Charles Manson! Playboy! Join us for Macbeth, Part 2, in which we explore changing…
Ghosts Were People Too18 - Macbeth Part 1: Is This a Dagger? The Great Chain of Being, Blood, Milk, and Gender
Is this a dagger, an inanimate ghost, or something more Freudian? In this, the first of a two-part episode, Annabelle and Quest venture onto the blasted heath…
Ghosts Were People Too17 - Ouija Boards (Happy Halloween 2025!)
In this Halloween special, Quest and Annabelle talk about the poetics, play, and "dangers" of the Ouija board. Make contact: @ghostswerepeopletoo…
Ghosts Were People Too16 - I Do, I Do, I Did! The Bride(s) of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
In this, the first of our series on Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Annabelle and Quest climb into the attic to uncover its ghostly brides, gothic backstory, and…
Ghosts Were People Too15 - Tina...!!! A Nightmare on Elm Street
Dreams, collective trauma, stranger danger, groomer panic, queer death drive/queer evil, and media horror - it's all lurking below the surface in A Nightmare…
Ghosts Were People Too14 - The Haunting of Hill House (Part 2): Journeys End in Lovers Meeting
Part two of our Haunting of Hill House special! In this episode we discuss Hill House as a character, the origins of the Victorian haunted house trope, and…
Ghosts Were People Too13 - The Haunting of Hill House (Prt. 1): AND They Were Roommates
For our very special 13th episode, we present part one of a two-part series on the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and its film adaptation…
Ghosts Were People Too12 - Ghosts in Folk Music
Ballads and broadsides, sailors and skeletons, sisters and sampling, and... have you seen the ghost of John? Join us to talk about ghosts in folk music. We…
Ghosts Were People Too11 - Angela Deane Part 2: Wish You Were Here (Nostalgia, Leisure Photography, and Kitsch)
Baltimore-based artist Angela Deane paints sheet ghosts onto found photos. You might know Deane's work from the cover of Phoebe Bridgers' Stranger in the Alps…
Ghosts Were People Too10 - Angela Deane Part 1: Say Cheese! Absence, Presence, Spirit Photography & Deane's Ghost Paintings
Baltimore-based artist Angela Deane paints sheet ghosts onto found photos. You might know Deane's work from the cover of Phoebe Bridgers' Stranger in the Alps…
Ghosts Were People Too9 - The X-Files S4E22 "Elegy" (Fetch Still Doesn't Really Happen)
Happy Halloween! It's Spooky (Mulder) Season, so we're talking about ghosts in the X-Files S4E22 "Elegy". It's not the only X-Files episode with…
Ghosts Were People Too8 - Ghostbusters Part 2: Creeponomics & Dan the Man
Is Ghostbusters the most American movie ever made? Your Ghost Hosts answer this and other questions you never asked in Part II of II on Ghostbusters (1984). We…
Ghosts Were People Too7 - Ghostbusters Part 1: Cold Hard Research
Bustin' makes me feel... bad? What was meant to be an "easy, breezy, beautiful" 80s night became a two-part "cold hard research" episode. In…
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6 - Sheet Ghosts
What are the cultural and artistic origins of spooky floating sheets? It's a familiar kitschy image with shrouded beginnings. Let's talk about little tamale…
Ghosts Were People Too5 - Luigi's Mansion: Games, Doubles, & Portrait Ghosts
Luigi is no longer second banana in the GameCube cult classic Luigi's Mansion (2001). In this episode, we talk about doubling, haunted portraits, haunted…
Ghosts Were People Too4 - Animated Ghosts (Spongebob Squarepants and Adventure Time)
Cartoons and ghosts go way back, from spooky magic lantern shows to Disney's first spooky-scary Silly Symphony. In this episode, we talk about the relationship…
Ghosts Were People Too3 - Blithe Spirit: Shadow Work on Stage and Screen (1941, 1945, & 2020)
Tonight we lead by counter-example as we explore Noël Coward's 1941 play Blithe Spirit by way of its movie adaptations. They could have been better, and that's…
Ghosts Were People Too2 - Spiritualism Pt. 2: Spirit Photography and More Humbug!
In this episode, Annabelle talks about spirit photography and its connections to the history of photography as a technology and artistic medium. We also…
Ghosts Were People Too1 - Spiritualism Pt. 1: Performing Seances
In part one of this two-part series on Spiritualism, the medium is the message. We talk about the history of the 19th-century Spiritualist movement and its…
Ghosts Were People Too0 - Syllabus Day
In this episode, Annabelle and Quest introduce themselves and explain the mission of this podcast. We ask the question "What is a ghost?" and discuss…