Ouija boards, growing up in a haunted town…visions of our dead families… It’s another normal episode of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan. This week join Chiwan as he welcomes Joanna Penn Cooper the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis. 

#Ouija #Visions #Dreams #Paranormal #GhostStories

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have artist, composer, performer Jasmine Orpilla, and we talk about her process of bringing objects into her work, objects that carry the spirits and history of her ancestors, and how that impacts her performance and those around her. Plus walking in Paris above the catacombs when you are a medium. It's not what you'd imagine.

#hauntedobjects #catacombs #medum #psychic #paranormal

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have Jackson Bliss, prolific author of three books in the past 9 months, including the most recent Amnesia of June Bugs. We talk about growing up Hapa in a small town in Michigan, about the legacy of violence that is passed down & how hauntings get passed down to the smallest things—even into an army man.

#haunting #hapa #mixedrace #JacksonBliss #Ghosts #Paranormal

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have the amazing writer, artist & activist Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed, co-creator and co-host of the groundbreaking podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. We discuss healthcare during pandemic & the mysterious (in the West) being called Jinn, while Taz tries to convince Chiwan to see her (checks notes) capitalist Republican Muslim psychic.

 

#jinn #muslim #spirits #psychics #paranromal #chiwanchoi #tazahmed

Haunted Coast to Coast In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have the incredible Rachel McKibbens, author of multiple books including BLUD, founder of the Pink Door Writing Retreat & co-owner of The Spirit Room in Rochester, NY. Rachel talks to Chiwan about the deaths of her father and brother from COVID, their long haunted house, and the demanding ghosts in her bar, a former 1850s morgue. A nothing held back conversation that is both frightening and moving.

#TheSpiritRoom #HauntedHouse #Experiences #BLUD #Ghosts #Chi

You mean there's a whole island with spooky dolls? Find out on an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me Chiwan. Today's guest is poet and podcaster Karla Lamb and we talk about The Island of the Dolls, her own haunted doll story plus La Llorona and family ghost stories. 

#charlacultura #LaLlorona #GhostStories #

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we are honored to have award-winning poet, critic, and educator Sandra Simonds, author of multiple books including TRIPTYCHS from Wave Books. We discuss her trip to Scotland with her sister's in-laws and a nice peaceful walk through a cemetary, a walk from which she brought home a dark companion that would remain attached to her for years. 

#shadowfigure #attachment #cemetary #scotland #ghost

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we welcome poet Nichole Goff, author of the new book Lumes. We will be discussing what evil Harry Potter brought into the house according to her grandmother, and about a dark presence left behind on a chair, her terrified dog under the bed, and Nichole's absolute amateur move involving showers and haunted mirrors.

#arizona #harrypotter #evilspirit #mirror

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we welcome writer and artist W.B. Clark. We talk about a fateful trip to visit her cousin in Los Angeles, where a Akashic Record Reader foretold of the book she would years later go on to write and illustrate, A Thousand Short Lives, and how that experience has inspired her to become a reader herself of the Akashic Record — a recording of all universal things to have occurred in the past, present, and future, and how she opens them up to help others and her own artistic practice.

#akashicrecords #history #future #chiwanchoi #poetry

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have poet, editor, activist and curator Jill Bergantz, based in a tiny town in the historical and historically violent gold country. We discuss the legacy of women in the area, the violent history of life in that area, and the ghosts that roam the town—its homes, its museums, its streets—that has been literally built on so much blood soaked land.

#goldcountry #norcal #ghosts #haunting