This is the past lives podcast episode 297 and I'm your host Simon Bown.

My mission here at past lives podcast is to investigate evidence of demonstrate survival of the human soul.

Who look at past life memories, near-death experiences, spirit communication and other incredible phenomena.

And I've decided to change the name of the podcast, starting with Episode 300.

The new name is Our Paranormal Afterlife.

I will still put the episodes together as I do now, but you'll see a

different logo and you'll hear updated intro music. And please check out Mather Podcast. It's

called the Alien UFO Podcast and I release new episodes every Monday and you can find that on

almost every podcast app. And if you want to hear the extended version of this episode, please join the

Patreon campaign. This week I'm talking to Mark Hartsman about his book, Chasing Ghosts, a tour

of our fascination with spirits and the supernatural. ABCNews.com has called Mark Hartsman,

one of America's leading connoisseurs of the Bazaar,

and George Norrie from coast to coast AM said he's as bizarre as Robert Ripley.

Mark has written for Mental Floss, The Huffington Post, AOL Weird News and Bizarre magazine,

and he's discussed auditors on CNN, MSNBC, Ripple's Radio, and the travel

channel's mysteries at the museum.

More of his love for this unusual can be found on his site, weirdhistorian.com.

Hi, Mark, thanks for coming on the podcast.

Thanks for having me, and I appreciate it.

So we're going to be talking about your book. It's called Chasing Ghosts, a tour of our fascination with spirits and the

supernatural. How did this book come about? Why did you decide to write this one? Well, this is a subject

I've kind of always been interested in in a couple of ways.

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