“I think of all the hurts she can never outlive — the ghosts that can never be satisfied, no matter how much of herself she feeds to them.”
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Haunting the Archive
“The media’s obsession with my mother changed my relationship to grief.”
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Encounters With Ghosts
“We were all there to see ghosts; we were all, I suppose, future ghosts.”
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The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World
“One day, a white sheet is draped over the ocean, the next it has burst into a million pieces. A ghost, within a matter of days.” Jack Ryan beautifully weaves history, personal narrative, and science writing in this reported essay for CNET. He comments on our current climate crisis from a front-row seat at the […]
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When Your Mother Is a Ghost Hunter
“On the hunt with TikTok star Brittany Broski and her mother Heather Long, lead investigator of the Texas Ghost Gals.”
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Finally, the Truth Behind the ‘Haunted’ Dybbuk Box Can Be Revealed
“The Dybbuk Box has captured the popular imagination, becoming the stuff of internet legend — and commerce.”
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The Corpse Rider
“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.
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Boo: A Reading List About Ghosts
Ghost stories point to a reality beyond our own — or, at the very least, to an expanded understanding of what this plane of existence encompasses. (And they’re fun.)
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Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.