Ghosts of the Playboy Mansion & Canada's Darkest Hauntings with Brian Baker (Part 1)
Ghost Bunny
Bridget Marquardt
4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Bridget Marquardt is joined by paranormal researcher and author Brian Baker to explore some of the strangest ghost stories, investigations, and paranormal mysteries from Canada and beyond. They discuss the alleged hauntings of the Playboy Mansion, unexplained activity at Holly Madison's historic home, haunted hospitals and hotels, the famous Philip Experiment, and whether thoughtforms or manifested entities could explain some paranormal encounters.
The conversation also dives into ghost hunting experiences, Canadian folklore, haunted locations, table tipping experiments, paranormal representation in media, and the connections some researchers see between ghosts, UFOs, and other unexplained phenomena.
This is just Part 1 of a two-part conversation, so look out for Part 2 where things get deeper, stranger, and more revealing from here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Markort with a brand new episode for you guys. |
| 0:23.1 | My guest today is Brian Baker. Brian Baker is a Toronto-based journalist and author of Eerie Whispers, Canada's reluctant relationship with its ghostly lore. |
| 0:33.1 | Founder of the superstitious times and a regular contributor to Haunted Magazine, he has been fascinated by the paranormal since a childhood encounter with a shadowy figure in British |
| 0:42.1 | Columbia. Drawing on his background in archaeology and more than 20 years in journalism, |
| 0:47.3 | Brian explores Canada's most intriguing ghost stories and those mysteries that linger just beyond |
| 0:52.4 | explanation. Brian, thank you so much for doing the show today. |
| 0:56.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:58.6 | Yes. |
| 0:59.2 | So I wanted to start out by just telling everybody how we first got to know each other |
| 1:04.9 | because I think it's kind of a funny story. |
| 1:06.4 | You were writing an article for Haunted Magazine |
| 1:09.2 | and you were doing it about the ghosts of the |
| 1:12.4 | Playboy Mansion. What made you come up with that, that topic? Well, I was kind of, you know, |
| 1:18.7 | I've worked, I've written for men's lifestyle magazines before and I had come across, you know, |
| 1:25.5 | the story of the haunting, of course, the Light Boy Mansion. |
| 1:29.2 | And I think it kind of came about organically when I was looking into the history of Los Angeles. |
| 1:35.9 | So then I came across the article that you and Holly had spoken to. |
| 1:40.8 | I believe it was in trying to remember the magazine now. |
| 1:46.0 | But, and then I just said, hey, why don't I write about that? I reached out to some of my contacts, um, former models who, |
| 1:52.4 | I did work with Playboy at one point. And then, um, just got in touch with you through actually |
| 1:59.7 | a mutual paranormal acquaintance, |
| 2:01.8 | uh, Tani and, uh, um, went from there. So it was, uh, it was pretty fun. I like kind of |
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