A celebration of ghosts, ghost stories and American ghost pop culture.
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This was originally produced as a two part episode for the podcast, Radio Waves. It documents several real ghost stories, explores the history of ghosts and ghosts in pop culture and discusses the subject with a real ghost hunter.
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