Ghosts never really go out of fashion, they just change platforms. Once they rapped on tables and floated in candlelight; now they flicker on YouTube and whisper through spirit boxes.

As spooky season begins, Lisa and Sarah ask: Are we witches…haunted?

From witch-ghosts in England, Scotland, and Salem to Houdini’s showdown with the Witch of Lime Street, they trace how women became history’s translators between worlds. Plus, a Ouija board experiment and a cemetery ritual for spooky season.

Citations for Who, What, Witch, Where?

E. Jay Gilbert, Haunted

Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium “Margery” (1924)

The Dollop Podcast, Episode #12 “Houdini vs Margery”

“How to Use a Ouija Board,” wikiHow

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Keywords: witchcraft, ghosts, spirits, haunting, haunted house, ouija, medium, psychics, parlour games

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