About Family Ghosts
The best ghost stories aren’t on our television*, they’re the ones that you hear at sleepovers after a game of Light as Feather, Stiff as a Board or from your mom as you’re sorting your Halloween candy on the floor of your living room.
“This story happened to my brother’s girlfriend’s sister…”
“The story happened to me when I was a little kid…”
“Your grandmother doesn’t like talking about it, but the story goes like this…”
Family Ghosts is a newsletter that personalizes the paranormal. For over 30 years, Sam has been interested in the supernatural but never thought she would take the leap to investigate her own family ghost story…until now. Part ghost story, part how-to, part rumination on the meaning of family and memory, Family Ghosts is an attempt to demystify and democratize the supernatural.
This is not a serialized publication, but if you want to know more about the family ghost story I’m investigating, I’d recommend reading these three posts:
Part 1: The Woman in the Teal Dress
Part 3: The Moment of Connection
* The one exception to this rule is Are You Afraid of the Dark? I will not be taking any questions about this claim.
About Sam
At the age of 8, Sam founded her first company: The Ghost Hunters Society. With a notebook and the contents of a detective kit she received for Christmas, Sam committed herself to investigating and debunking various household mysteries. She had a 90% clearance rate, including notable cases like The Mystery of the Headless Driver (verdict: trick of the light), The Closet Ghost (verdict: exhaust fan), and The Mystery of the Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer (verdict: Grandma). She was unable to explain The Mystery of the Weird Smell in the Basement That Only Emerges When Kids Are Down There, a case that still haunts her to this day.
Today, Sam works full-time as a program manager and trainer at a large technology company. She has told at least one CEO that her 5-year plan is to become a full-time paranormal investigator. A trained Project Management Professional (PMP) with experience in research, consulting, sales, and customer success, one of her ongoing goals has been to develop her storytelling skills. She has never been a professional paranormal investigator but she does have the Ghost Radar app on her phone and will not allow her husband to bring a Ouija Board into the house. She lives in Chicago and is actively working on trying new things that scare the living daylights out of her, like starting a newsletter or uh…finding some ghosts she’s related to.
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