Happy Halloween!

First things first, there's a ghost in my shower.

Second things second: Don't forget to listen to Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

https://open.spotify.com/show/3w7hx4Q4JRfojBDIrraPBH?si=d0ac84b3ab88442e

Excited about Halloween this year (and a habitual autumn-lover), I've been making a few YouTube shorts while out shopping. 

I also read a "spooky" (cute) board book with monsters.

And here's what I did last Saturday. Note the local authors and dancing witches.

This is a good podcast episode for Halloween: Author Colin Dickey goes to Nevada's legal brothel, Mustang Ranch, to interview some of the sex workers there, learns the ghost lore of the Ranch, and possibly has a ghost encounter of his own.

If you're an enjoyer of vintage Halloween, and in particular the Halloween of 100 years ago, here are some additional videos you might enjoy. This one recounts a 1925 journalist's understanding of the history of Halloween.

These are some Halloween newspaper clippings from October 11th through October 23rd, 1925.

Here's an interesting artifact of early 20th century culture: The Yama Yama Man.

Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Audiobook Out Now

Who, or what, were the Devils of Loudun? 

Did Queen Elizabeth the First's friend and advisor John Dee know a man who talked to angels in their sacred language? 

Could Germany's so-called Seeress of Prevorst really find objects that had been hidden by the dead? 

These questions are explored, along with eight additional stories of history's celebrated (supposed) ghosts and what the author calls "human enigmas," in Historical Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/920685344/Historic-Ghosts-and-Ghost-Hunters

Kobo/Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/historic-ghosts-and-ghost-hunters-14

Or stream on Spotify.

Henry (H.) Addington Bruce (1874-1959) was a newspaper journalist whose career began in his native Toronto. He moved to the United States, where he worked for the American Press Association. His primary areas of interest were the psychology of the day and alleged psychical phenomena. A trustee of the American Society of Psychical Research, he tended to be skeptical of poltergeist claims but was open-minded on the questions of telepathy and other powers of the human mind.