SYSK Selects: How Ghosts Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

According to a 2009 poll, more Americans believe in ghosts than don't. But what are ghosts exactly? If they do exist, what are they made of and why are they hanging around? In this classic episode airing for Halloween, Josh and Chuck explore both sides of the divide between belief and skepticism on the topic of ghosts and look at some pretty cool explanations for hauntings.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay
0:04.8	on top of.
0:05.8	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.5	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.5	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.9	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.8	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, it's your old pal Josh Goulish Clark.
0:36.3	And for this week's special Halloween edition of S.Y.S.K. Selects, I've chosen our classic
0:41.6	episode How Ghosts Work, which it turns out we recorded in July, weirdly enough, but it
0:48.5	seems appropriate to release this Saturday, so I hope you enjoy it and boo.
0:59.7	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:06.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:10.7	I'm Josh Clark.
1:11.7	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is Step You Should Know.
1:14.7	Jerry's over there, Fiddling and Futsing Around.
1:18.7	Halloween and June.
1:20.2	Right.
1:21.2	Remember when we had the horror fiction contest last year?
1:23.2	Actually this may be July.
1:24.9	Yeah, yeah.
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