The Strange World of Ghost Hunting (and its history)

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People have always believed in ghosts in one way or another, but when did we start HUNTING for them, and why? Come learn with me about the world of paranormal investigation media and its complicated history!

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Sources:

Confessions Of A Ghost-hunter by Harry Price

"Give us a Sign of Your Presence": Paranormal Investigation as a Spiritual Practice by Marc A. Eaton

QUEER SPECTRALITIES AND UNTIMELY SUBJECTS by KEVIN CHABOT

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century– Distillations Podcast Episode 277, Science History Institute
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distil...

The Broken Technology of Ghost Hunting By Colin Dickey
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...

“Ghost Hunting in the Twenty-First Century” by John Potts in “From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity's Search for Spirits”

‘Make Me Believe!’: Ghost-hunting technology and the postmodern fantastic by Sarah Juliet Lauro and Catherine Paul

Phantasmic Science: Medieval Theology, Victorian Spiritualism, and the Specific Rationality of Twenty-First Century Ghost Hunting by Brenda Gardenour Walter

Ghost-Hunters and Psychical Research in Interwar England by Joanna Timms

Wandering the Web -- Subcultures: Ghost Hunting: A Passion for the Paranormal by Jack and Lesley Montgomery

Paranormal Technology: Understanding the Science of Ghost Hunting By David M. Rountree

Haunting rhetoric: Ghost Adventures and the evolution of the ghost hunting genre by Shannon Dale

A Haunted Genre: A Study of Ghost Hunting Reality Television by Abigail L. Carlin

Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism by Michele M. Hanks

Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof By Roger Clarke

“14 Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre” by David Greven, from the book “Reality Gendervision”

Ghostland: AN AMERICAN HISTORY IN HAUNTED PLACES By Colin Dickey

Ghost Hunters: WILLIAM JAMES AND THE SEARCH FOR SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH By Deborah Blum

Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication by John Durham Peters

Video:

Ghost Adventures

Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural

Bleach

Ghost Whisperer

Legend of a Ghost (1908)