The Ghostbusters Case
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What if your house was legally haunted? The Ackleys of Nyack, New York had to deal with just that. We look into the legal precedent of paranormal activity, real estate hauntings, and ask the question: At what point is it worth it to own a haunted house?
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of legal disputes, racism, The Confederate Flag, slavery, violence against indigenous people, death, capitalism, real estate, and haunting.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.1 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.3 | And this is episode 190, the Ghostbusters case, which is primarily about the case and only a little bit about Ghostbusters. |
| 0:16.3 | Only a little tiny bit about Ghostbusters. |
| 0:18.6 | Only a brief few mentions of Ghostbusters. But I was really excited |
| 0:22.0 | about this episode. I don't get to cover a lot of non-mythology stuff a lot on this show, but I thought |
| 0:28.9 | this one was creepy and cool and two was a different perspective than we usually have. |
| 0:34.2 | If you enjoyed our Mothman episode, for example, and all of the first person accounts |
| 0:39.7 | that Julie was able to draw from, I think you'll enjoy this one as well. The Mothman one, |
| 0:44.0 | just so sexy, though. So sexy. Well, our new patrons, I think, are some wonderful people |
| 0:51.9 | who I would definitely make overly sexy statues of. Welcome and |
| 0:55.7 | thank you to Mask in the Rain, Bryn, Elaine, and a fellow Amanda. You join the ranks of our |
| 1:02.1 | wonderful patrons whose support literally makes it possible for this to be our jobs, including our |
| 1:07.4 | supporting producer-level patrons, Alicia, Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Keegan, Landon, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Molly, Mr. Folk, Neil, Nicky, Phil Fresh, Polly, Sarah, and Skyla. |
| 1:18.0 | They're all in alphabetical order now. Do you like that? |
| 1:21.4 | Oh. How pleasant. Thank you. |
| 1:22.6 | You're welcome. All those Ms in a row. You join as well our newly alphabetical legend level patrons, |
| 1:28.5 | Audra Avinlea, Chelsea, Clara, Donald Drew, Eden, Francis, Jack Marie, Josie, Lada, Mark, Morgan, |
| 1:35.0 | necrophancy, Sarah, and BMEF Scotty, which is alphabetized by the Scotty and not the Bia, |
| 1:40.2 | which I think is wonderful. Thank you. I appreciate you, you liking that. Amanda, what else are you |
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