Ghosts are inherently liminal beings because they're here, but they're not here.

They're from the past, but they're not from the past.

They're dead, but they're standing in front of me.

I just got up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom.

And as I walked down the hallway, just felt this really weird sensation.

It was a woman, and she had black, long, kind of stringy hair,

and she was very pale, very skinny, and she was just standing there staring.

And I recognized her.

I'm Melissa Fiorentino, and I'm Hadley Mendelsohn.

We're interior design editors slash paranormal obsessives.

And this is Dark House, a new podcast from House Beautiful, where we explore beautiful homes that can't seem to escape their dark histories.

But is that the only thing haunting them?

In our first episode, we'll share the personal ghost stories that got us here.

The way he was standing, I think most people would have been freaked out by,

because he was, like, behind the door, so I could only see sort of, like, half of him sticking out.

Ew, I'm really, I'm home alone. You're scaring me.

And talked to a renowned professor of anthropology to learn where our fascination with haunted

houses comes from.

You know, science really doesn't tell you to believe in ghosts, and most organized religions

really don't tell you to believe in ghosts, and yet people believe in ghost, right?

So I think this is really interesting.

This is kind of folklore at its finest finest because there's something else going on. In the episodes that follow, we'll introduce

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