Today on the Grave Talks, Ghosts on Your Shelf, a conversation about haunted objects with author Christopher Belzano.

Is it possible for an object to truly harbor paranormal activity?

Many people say, without a doubt, yes.

From dolls to mirrors to collectibles your grandparents might have left you,

it seems that many ordinary objects seem to possess an unsettling energy.

But why?

The haunted allure lies in the unsettling belief that these items retain residual energy. But why? The haunted allure lies in the unsettling belief that these items retain residual

energy, carrying forth the emotions and experiences of their past. Haunted objects carry an

eerie mystique steeped in supernatural tales that blur the line between reality and the paranormal.

Could it be that a spirit can't rest and is holding on to something familiar?

Is the item itself haunted?

Or is it part of a haunting?

Today, a conversation about haunted objects with Christopher Balzano, author of Haunted Objects,

Stories of Ghosts on Your Shelf.

Chris, thank you so much for doing an episode with me.

It's interesting.

I'd been wanting to do an episode for the longest time about

haunted objects. I'm fascinated and scared of them all at the same time. And you and your co-author,

Tim Weisberg, actually literally wrote the book on it. Yeah, it's funny because, you know,

this is, this is not a new book. This is a book that we released about 12 years

ago originally. And one of the things that sparked us to redo it, republish it, was the idea

that Tim himself does a radio show, a paranormal radio show for the last 16 years called Spooky South Coast.

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