What is it about famous people that draws us in? They sing our favorite songs, and they star in our favorite movies. Some fill us with nostalgia as we remember them from that show we used to watch, and so, we miss them when they’re gone. And yet, some never really leave. Come along on our very own ghostly walk of fame where celebrities linger long after the last curtain call. In this episode we look at four celebrities whose ghosts still enjoy the spotlight. We’ll start with the iconic Lucille Ball and Whitney Houston. Then, we’ll pay a visit to singer Amy Winehouse and end with Mommie Dearest herself, Joan Crawford. We hope you enjoy the episode and look out for the paparazzi!

Lucille Ball Biography

Housebeautiful website about Lucys house

Exemplore - lucys house and paramount lot haunting

The Standard: “Whitney Houston’s Spirit Haunts our Home at Night and Talks to me, Says Daughter”

Hindustan Times - “Whitney Houston’s Mum Haunted by her Ghost

The Sun - “You Know That I'm no Ghoul: Amy Winehouse’s dad says singer’s ghost visits him at Kent home”

Vanity Fair - “Did Joan Crawford’s Ghost Haunt the Set of Mommie Dearest?”:

“Joan’s Haunted Brentwood Home”

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Welcome to the Crescent City, Pelican City, The Big Easy. Whatever you call it, New Orleans is full of spirit. No town can send the soul over the moon with jazz and Mardi Gras like NOLA, but some souls decided to stay. Enjoy an alligator sausage Po-Boy at the Napoleon House but keep an eye out for the sweeping lady. Visit the Pharmacy Museum where a murderous pharmacists may have killed some of his patients and buried them in the courtyard. You’ll love the snow white, antebellum mansion called the Mansion Magnolia and its ghostly children. Speaking of ghost children, New Orleans is full of them, and they can’t wait to come out and play.

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

“Haunted Secrets Unveiled: The Dark History of New Orleans Pharmacy Museum”

“The Ghosts of the Pharmacy Museum” from Ghost City Tours

The Napoleon House Hauntings

“New Orleans Pharmacy Museum” from New Orleans Ghosts

“Things That Go Bump in the Haunted Pharmacy” from the Pharmacy Times

“Opium and Cocaine and Leeched, Oh My: Haunting Medicine in Historic New Orleans”

Sarah Chambless’s Blog

Ghost City Tours - Mansion Magnolia

Ghost City Tours - Ghost Children

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Welcome to a special Halloween episode. As were approach All Hallow’s Eve, we thought you might enjoy an episode dedicated to the history of Halloween and the ghost story. But that’s not all. If you ring our doorbell and say “Trick-or-Treat,” we’ll drop a few listening submitted paranormal experiences into your pumpkin. Thanks for listening and we hope you are having a wonderfully frightful spooky season!

History.com - halloween history

History.com - ghost story history

Saint Jospeh's University

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In 2009, moviegoers were enthralled and terrified by The Haunting in Connecticut. The
supernatural thriller was promoted as being “based on a true story.”  We wondered how much of the “true story” made it into the film? In this episode, we look at the movie, the 1992 book, and several interviews with the family to uncover what really happened at the former funeral home in Southington, CT. What did Hollywood get right, and what did they get wrong? The answer may be more terrifying than the movie could hope to be.

In a Dark Place by Carmen Reed, Al Snedeker, and Ray Garton

The Fear is Real: Reinvestigating the Haunting in Connecticut

Interview With Carmen Reed – A Haunting in Connecticut by The Mystic Paranormal Podcast

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Nothing screams spooky season like a good old-fashioned haunted house. Come along as we uncover the bumps in the night and the ghostly visitors in two genuine haunted houses. First, we visit the Monroe House in Indiana, today more infamously known by its sinister nickname: the Demon House. Then we take a trip to a late 1700s farmhouse in Litchfield County, Connecticut where one resident has kept a diary documenting paranormal activity in the home for the last 50 years. As always, thanks for listening!

Buy your own copy of The Haunted House Diaries: The True Story of a Quiet Connecticut Townin the Center of a Paranormal Mystery by William J. Hall

Buy your copy of On Dark Ground: Investigating the Haunted Monroe House By Richard Estep

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Welcome to another Ope, A Ghost Book Club. Today we look at Dr. Bruce Greyson’s After (2021). As cofounder of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, Greyson has studied near-death experiences (NDEs) for 45 years. His book is loaded with the stories of those who experience NDEs. Just as interesting are the conclusions that Greyson makes based on four decades of research. The book is as thought provoking as it fascinating. Thanks for listening!

Link to buy After, on Amazon

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When you hear the words Salem, Massachusetts, your mind undoubtedly goes to the Salem Witchcraft Trials and for good reason. Salem is steeped in history . . . and in hauntings.  In this episode, we visit the haunted Burying Point Cemetery and the adjacent Murphy’s Pub. We also stop by the mysterious Salem Inn and an eerie funeral home turned speakeasy turned liquor store named Bunghole Liquors. Thanks for joining us as we kick off the spooky season!

Ghost City Tours

Smithsonian Magazine

Murphys Pub

Bunghole Liquors

American Paranormal Magazine - nationwide september/october 2023 issue, featuring Ope, A Ghost

Illinois Times - Best of Springfield 2023 - Vote for Ope, A Ghost for best local podcast! 

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It just so happens that the theater has been a place for entertainment for nearly as long as humanity has existed. It also just so happens that theaters are among the most haunted places you’ll ever visit. In this episode, we look at the NederlanderTheater in Chicago and a handful of haunted Broadway theaters. The moral of this story is to pay attention the next time you take in a play. That out of place character in the back may not be part of the production. Break a leg!

YouTube: “The Haunted Oriental Theater – short video (2:47)

American Ghost Walks

NIU Article :A Matinee to Remember” by Dr. Frank Norbury

James M. Nederlander Theater

Architectural Digest “The 37 Most Haunted Placed in the World”

Anna Gasteyer on Celebrity Ghost Stories (Starts around 20:54)

Iroquois Theater photos from Chicago Tribune

Playbill article 

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The list of cryptids is a mile long, but when it comes to the superstars, Bigfoot is the reigning champ. In this week’s episode, Jonathan visits a 1973 Bigfoot rash of sightings in Murphysboro, IL dubbed the Big Muddy Monster. Heaven takes us down the rabbit hole by discussing some of the more unique Sasquatch specimens. Ever hear of Sheep Squatch? You have now!

Big Muddy Monster Festival

Creature From Big Muddy: An Illinois Bigfoot Legend

Monsters of Illinois by Troy Taylor

Cryptids Fandom

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On today’s Book Club Minisode we read T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead, a wonderful retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Kingfisher incorporates all the characters from Poe’s original to create a mesmerizing world that is both fascinating and nightmarish. Did we mention the hares? We think you’ll love this one!

T. Kingfisher website

Amazon link to buy What Moves the Dead 

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