Ep 218 - Why Ghost Stories Matter

Ep 218 - Why Ghost Stories Matter

Jim steps out from behind the microphone to share a talk he gave at the Modern Language Association conference in Toronto, where he was invited to speak on a panel about Gothic scholarship, podcasting, and public humanities.

It's a conversation about what we're really doing when we tell ghost stories. Not just entertaining, but shaping how people think about the past, life, death, and what may lie between. It's about butterflies that remember past lives, Titanic folklore that won't die, and why a zombie apocalypse in a Cold War bunker became one of our most beloved projects.

Thanks to Joshua Tuttle from Concordia University in Chicago for the invite!

Also: Valentine's Weekend is upon us. Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day, back-to-back. The most superstitious night of the year, followed by the most romantic. Ghost tours in Kingston, Ottawa, and Toronto. Paranormal investigations in Ottawa and Toronto.

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Ep 214 - Ghosts on a Plane: The Haunting of Flight 401

Ep 214 - Ghosts on a Plane: The Haunting of Flight 401

December 29, 1972. A routine flight becomes an unspeakable tragedy when Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashes into the Florida Everglades. Ninety-six souls perish in the dark swampland, their final mome...

24 Loka 202539min

Ep 213 – The Conjuring of Ed and Lorraine Warren

Ep 213 – The Conjuring of Ed and Lorraine Warren

They were the most famous ghost hunters in the world. A husband and wife who claimed to battle demons, investigate possessions, and protect families from the darkness beyond. But every haunting has tw...

17 Loka 202544min

Ep 212 – A Knock at the Door - The Haunting of the Wizard Clip

Ep 212 – A Knock at the Door - The Haunting of the Wizard Clip

In 1794, a stranger died in a farmhouse on the edge of the Virginia frontier. What followed became one of the most chilling, bizarre, and well-documented hauntings in early America. Phantom horses gal...

10 Loka 202544min

Ep 211 - The Coffin That Saved Three Men From Drowning

Ep 211 - The Coffin That Saved Three Men From Drowning

Most shipwrecks leave behind ghosts. This one left behind something stranger. In 1912, the Mayflower, a wooden steamer built for the quiet lakes of eastern Ontario, set out on one final trip before wi...

3 Loka 202544min

Ep 210 - The Curse That Built a Castle

Ep 210 - The Curse That Built a Castle

Deep in the wilderness of northwestern Ontario, where the forest swallows sound and the lakes stretch toward the horizon, stands a log castle. Not the ruin of a forgotten community, or the relic of a ...

26 Syys 202526min

Ep 209 - Halifax Explosion: Aftermath

Ep 209 - Halifax Explosion: Aftermath

At 9:04 a.m., Halifax was torn apart in an instant. One moment it was a thriving wartime city, the next, it was fire, thunder, and ruin. A fireball as hot as the surface of the sun ignited the harbour...

5 Syys 202538min

Ep 208 - Halifax Explosion: Before the Blast

Ep 208 - Halifax Explosion: Before the Blast

On a crisp December morning in 1917, Halifax woke to calm skies and the quiet hum of a wartime city at work. Children hurried to school. Workers streamed into factories. Families went about their rout...

22 Elo 202534min

Ep 207 - Two Hoaxes and a Ghost Story: The Reveal

Ep 207 - Two Hoaxes and a Ghost Story: The Reveal

Three chilling mysteries. Two elaborate hoaxes. One truth you didn't see coming. These were strange events that gripped the public's attention and convinced witnesses they had experienced something tr...

8 Elo 202534min

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