Today on The Grave Talks, Ghosted, a history of ghost hunting and why we keep looking,

a conversation with author Alice Vernon.

In her new book, Ghosted, a history of ghost hunting and why we keep looking,

Alice Vernon sets out to chase the one thing

she isn't even sure exists and discovers that the search for ghosts says more about the living

than the dead. What begins as a skeptics experiment becomes a haunting journey through centuries

of belief. From candlelit Victorian seances to ghost hunts streamed on YouTube,

she explores how our obsession with the afterlife has evolved, but never disappeared.

Each new invention from telegrams to EMF meters becomes another way to reach across the void to prove that love, grief, or even guilt

can outlast death. As she moves deeper into Britain's most haunted places, she begins to feel the

same pull that's gripped believers for generations. Maybe the ghosts aren't what we think they are. Maybe they're reflections of everything

we've lost and everything we still hope to find. Part history, part investigation,

ghosted is a chilling, intimate exploration of why we keep trying to prove what we can't explain

and why our search for the dead may really be a search for meaning among the living.

So, Alice, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today about your new book.

It's called Ghosted, A History of Ghost Hunting and Why We Keep Looking.

Thank you so much for taking the time. I really

anxious to dive into this book. Oh, thank you very much for having me, Carol. Now, you actually

are doctor, Alice Vernon, by the way. I am. Anybody who works through a PhD, you deserve that

doctor time. Oh, time. Thank you.

Yes, it was tough.

When I handed my PhD in, I actually got shingles, which is chicken pox.

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