Interview with Danielle Aykroyd [Patreon Preview]

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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I talk to Danielle Aykroyd about her family's involvement in spiritualism, and growing up in a home where the paranormal is just normal. For the full episode, sign up for the Otherworld Patreon Danielle Aykroyd, also known by her stage name Vera Sola, is a singer-songwriter, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. She is the daughter of the actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd who came from a long line of spiritualists. His family was heavily involved in the movement and the movie Ghostbusters was actually based on the experiences of his great grandfather. His great-grandfather, Samuel Augustus Aykroyd, was a dentist and an avid spiritualist who held séances at the family home in Ontario, Canada. He was deeply interested in communicating with spirits, which was a popular practice during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Samuel Aykroyd even kept detailed journals documenting his experiences and beliefs. If you want to hear the entire interview, it's out now on the Otherworld Patreon. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
0:14.8	This episode is an interview I did with Danielle Akroyd.
0:19.4	This is a short preview.
0:20.7	If you want to hear the full thing, you can do so
0:22.7	at patreon.com slash otherworld. Daniel Akroyd is also known by her stage name, Verasola. She's a singer,
0:30.9	poet, and multi-instrumentalist. She is also the daughter of the very famous actor and comedian Dan
0:37.3	Akroyd. I'm not sure how many people
0:39.5	are aware of this, but Dan Aykroyd came from a long line of spiritualists. His family was heavily
0:47.4	involved in the movement, and the movie Ghostbusters is actually based on the experiences of his great-grandfather. I know that sounds like I'm making
0:58.3	it up, but this is completely true. His great-grandfather, Samuel Augustus Akroyd, was a dentist,
1:05.4	an avid spiritualist who held seances at the family home in Ontario, Canada. He was deeply interested in communicating with the spirits,
1:14.0	which was a popular practice during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1:18.9	Samuel Ackroyd even kept detailed journals documenting his experiences and beliefs,
1:23.8	which is what inspired Ghostbusters.
1:26.8	This is all to say that the A Akroyd family is very connected to the belief in the supernatural.
1:34.6	And for that reason, Danielle had a very unique childhood where the paranormal was kind of normal.
1:41.7	She has so many interesting stories, and I wanted to get her on here
1:45.5	to discuss her family history,
1:47.9	what growing up in that world was like,
1:50.2	and what kind of things she experienced along the way.
1:54.1	This is my interview with Danielle Akroyd.
1:57.4	If you want to hear the full thing,
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