What Do Ghosts Say Around the Globe?
Curiosity #11 Originally posted on Substack, October 20, 2025 While ruminating on some of the spooky movies I’ve watched this month. I remembered reading that the classic ghostly onomatopoeia “boo” originated from the original Latin boare or Ancient Greek boaein which mean “to cry out.” 1 Now, I cannot remember where I originally read this, but there is a pretty fair chance that it was from a Tumblr post 2 , so imagine my surprise that the story may actually have some trut
Peering into the History of Turn of the Century Spiritualism and Fraud
Curiosity #10 Originally posted on Substack, September 29, 2025 With October merely days away, I am delighted that this curiosity post will focus on another “spooky” subject: spiritualism! I cannot remember the first time I was introduced to the concept of the living communicating from the dead. Fictional fortune tellers populate modern media—from Disney films to horror movies—and many of the motifs we associate with these figures originate with the rise of spiritualism in th
