#ghost shows

[charnel-grounds]

Professor Pepper (John Henry) - The True History of the Ghost; and All About Metempsychosis. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890

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[shootingstars-or-airplanes]

I think there should be more fun shows about ghosts for adults. Like Ghosts is the obvious one(s), but all the other ones either seem to be horror or way too overly sexual and shit. Why can't we just have fun stories about people who see ghosts with a little bit of crude humor and swearing so that every time I go to watch a new ghost show it doesn't say "for kids" in the corner?

[swiftiesbuddie]

Would you rather be a ghost in the Ghosts (CBS) universe, the School Spirits universe, or the Julie and the Phantoms universe?

Ghosts (CBS)

School Spirits

Julie and the Phantoms

Voting ended onDec 19, 2025

Propaganda

Ghosts (CBS)

Ghost powers (moving physical objects, talking to livings in dreams, making it smell bad/making people high when they walk through you, etc.)

Can’t been seen or heard by living people unless it’s your ghost power (also could be only on a certain day)

Can’t leave the property (unless it’s your ghost power) (get turned around at the barrier)

Can’t touch physical objects (unless it’s your ghost power) and can’t eat food, can only smell it

Spend eternity in the state in which you died (clothing, wounds, etc.)

Can possess living people

Evil robber baron who occasionally visits from hell

School Spirits

Scars (locations where you can revisit your death and other traumas with the help of a personal item!)

Can’t be seen or heard by living people unless you have an emotional connection and shared trauma with a living (can only be seen where others ghosts have died)

Can’t leave the property (get zapped back to where you died)

Can bring physical objects into the ghost plane of existence (can’t change the living plane of existence, but you can eat)

Can change clothes and wounds don’t show

Can possess living people

Evil teacher who’s been emotionally manipulating and lying to students for 70-odd years

Julie and the Phantoms

Can’t be seen or heard by living people unless you’re the Phantoms playing music with Julie

Not bound to one area, can poof/teleport places

Can touch physical objects when focused. Cannot touch people unless there’s an emotional breakthrough.

Can change clothes and wounds don’t show

Can possess living people

Evil magician/club owner who might put a curse on you

[roryweek]

Rory Week Greatest Hits! 2025 Prompts and Dates

Since the past two years have been so successful, we're taking it back to the past! This years prompts will consist of the most popular prompts of the past two years! So if you had an idea you never got to do, nows your chance!

How it works: Create a post for one or both of the prompts for each day, or skip a day if you feel like it! This blog will reblog every post made in the #roryweek and #roryweek2025 tags on the day of each prompts (any late posts will be reblogged once the week is up!) here are the prompts:

Thursday, October 9th - Star Trek or Video Games

Why does Rory love Star Trek? What elements of fandom does he interact with the most? Shipping? Fanart? Cosplay? Or does he love to play video games with his best buds? Does he have a high score on his favorite arcade game?

Friday, October 10th - Post-Finale or DC Comics

What does Rory get up to after the finale? What decade is it? Who does he hang out with? Or does he think Batman can beat Superman in a fight? Who are his favorite villains?

Saturday, October 11th - Swag or Scene

This one was tied! So combine the two prompts for a crunkcore masterpiece, or try your hand at giving Rory a classic late 2000s style of his own! (If you already did both last time, maybe consider the secret 3rd prompt of Hipster Rory?)

Sunday, October 12th - Free Day!

Have fun! Post anything Rory related, or fulfill one of the previous/next prompts. There are no rules!

Monday, October 13th - Sarorica or Ghost Shows

How does Rory hang out with Sarah and Erica? How does his vampirism or special interests effect his friendships? Or is he still a fan of Doug Falconhawk's ghost show? Does the sight of night cam reality TV still make him jump? Do the girls make fun of him for this?

Tuesday, October 14th - Blood or Supernatural Hunting

How does Rory feel about his vampire diet? What does a day of eating look like for him (hunting or blood bags)? Or Does he love hunting spirits with his friends and using the Spirit Speaker?

Wednesday, October 15th - Party Animal or Family

Rory loves a good party! Show off Rory’s awesome partying skills in any way you’d like! Or what does Rory's home life look like? In the future, is the fang gang his new found family?

Ask box is open if you have any questions! I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

[breelandwalker]

WAIT THE CHURCH PAID FOR "A HAUNTING"? I USED TO BITCH SO MUCH ABOUT THAT SHOW BEING SATANIC PANIC PROPAGANDA (and then kept watching it because it was the spookiest thing I had access to at the time).

YES LITERALLY!!!!

In the early seasons of the show, when it was just exclusively on Discovery, you could see a little blurb in the credits that indicated some funding for the show had come from the Catholic Church. I just checked and it looks like that was removed when the show shifted over to the Travel Channel / Destination America. (It's not in the videos posted on their YouTube channel and there's no mention on their media pages. Also any mention of "A Haunting" is pretty much taken up by the forthcoming Agatha Christie film, "A Haunting in Venice," so I couldn't find any articles related to prior funding.)

Whether the Church still provides any funding for the show is unknown, but it looks like it's still in production through New Dominion Pictures and still airs in syndication on Discovery Networks channels.

And yes, it is FULL of Warrenisms and Satanic Panic propaganda. And it's because of "A Haunting" and shows like it that this misinformation became gospel to an entire generation of witches and spiritualists and paranormal seekers, and continues to be viewed as such to this day, to the point that even though we know the VERY mundane and non-satanic origins of things like Ouija boards and poppets, these things are automatically viewed as open doors for demons by most people you'd ask on the street or social media.

If you ever want a fun bingo night or drinking game, watch a few episodes and spot all the Warren Bullshit, Satanic Panic talking points, and complete ignorance of things like mental health problems and families that don't know how to communicate. If you're feeling brave, pick an episode that deals with witches, magic, or curses. Also, MST3k that shit with friends or provide color commentary, it's a riot.

[inafieldofdaisies]

SurrealEstate (2021-) | Season 2, Episode 7 “God & Monsters” | Favorite scenes | Clytemnestra Lomax appreciation post

[anxietyfrappuccino]

that last episode was wild, season 2 of school spirits when???