Ghosts Were People Too

A podcast investigating ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities. Ghosts Were People Too haunts whichever podcast service you prefer.

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Where hast thou been, sister?

18 - Macbeth Part 1: Is This a Dagger? The Great Chain of Being, Blood, Milk, and Gender

Is this a dagger, an inanimate ghost, or something more Freudian? In this, the first of a two-part episode, Annabelle and Quest venture onto the blasted heath to explore the apparitions and queer hauntings of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We talk about Quest’s work on a recent production of the play at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and break down concepts regarding gender, kingship, violence, and the disruption of natural order.

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apologies for the radio silence. the queue dried up, i'm underwater with school. don't worry, we recorded a new episode a couple weeks ago, it's just taking a little while to edit!

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Evangeline Gallagher

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From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.

Monsters of every stripe are collected here.

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Hauntings - art by Edward Gorey (1968)

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Words of wisdom from the great Charles Barkley

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“You may know them as ghouls or phantoms”: A still from Peter Serafinowicz's Look Around You, series one.

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Alexander Calder Ghost 1964

Metal rods, painted sheet metal Length: 34 feet (1036.3 cm) Weight: 225 lb. (102.06 kg) Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

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Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972) ~ Ghost on the Stairs

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Patrick Mimran, Ghosts (France: Haute-Rive Publishing, 2013)

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"When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. [...] You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you."

-- The incredibly rad skeleton in Peter S. Beagle's Last Unicorn

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MAJIDA KHATTARI • Apparitions

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Existence (2024). Bekka Teerlink.

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It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.

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Evidence against soul survival is inferential, and direct evidence could only be furnished by the dead.  But there are accounts of ghosts denying an afterlife or “other world."  From Light, 1934.

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“This roll of sticky tape, for instance, is a ghost.“ A still from Peter Serafinowicz's Look Around You, series one.

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