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πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “Uncomfortable truths, buried secrets, disputed accounts: ghost stories side out of the shadowlands, a response to the ambiguous and poorly understood.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places πŸ‘»

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “Those aspects of a life that are discontinuous, fragmented, or unexpected, are made whole through the ghost story.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places πŸ‘»

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “A haunted house is a memory palace made real: a physical space that retains memories that might otherwise be forgotten or that might remain only in fragments.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places πŸ‘»

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “The past we’re most afraid to speak aloud of in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places πŸ‘»

Thank you @cygnoir@social.lol for pointing the way to this beautiful thread about the power of connections we make online. πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “She strode the earth clad in the invisible armor of their virtual companionship.” ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King