Episode Details

Paranormal author and researcher Jeff Belanger joins us to talk about the new edition of his book The World's Most Haunted Places, just in time for Halloween season.

We get into why interest in ghosts spikes whenever the world is in turmoil, from the Spiritualist movement and the Civil War to today, how paranormal TV actually gets made and what it did for the field, and the mystery-writing trick that explains how every ghost story works. Jeff shares reports of ghosts in the White House, including Lincoln, gathered from presidential libraries, haunted theatres where former employees never seem to leave, and the idea of the three deaths: you're not truly gone until your name is spoken for the last time. Plus Ouija boards, whether we're all a little bit psychic, and the hitchhiker effect.

Pick up The World's Most Haunted Places wherever books are sold.