What Are We Haunted By? Welcome to Dark House (ft. Professor Tok Thompson)

Dark House

House Beautiful/Hearst

Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the premiere of House Beautiful’s new limited series Dark House, co-hosts (and editors) Alyssa Fiorentino and Hadley Mendelsohn introduce listeners to the show, and to themselves, sharing the personal ghost stories from their childhood homes that still keep them up at night. Hung up on questions about how and why certain homes become haunted, the co-hosts chat with their first guest, Tok Thompson, Ph.D., folklorist, and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California (29:41). With years of experience studying ghosts and their origin stories from around the world, Professor Thompson joins Alyssa and Hadley to discuss the root of human fascination with haunted houses and the paranormal, and the important role ghost stories play in our culture. Ultimately, they arrive at another question that will linger throughout the series: What are ghosts trying to tell us? Listen to find out. CONTRIBUTORS Host/Producer: Alyssa Fiorentino Host/Producer: Hadley Mendelsohn Producer: May Tsehay Sound Engineer: Josh Caldwell Interested in advertising with us? Please visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DarkHouse for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're haunted by our moral lapses.
0:04.6	And so if we can listen to ghost stories, listen to the ghost, we can be better informed about
0:11.1	how to be better people.
0:12.7	And I think that's the real, you know, utility I see in ghost stories.
0:21.6	I'm Alyssa, and I'm Hadley.
0:24.1	We're two interior design editors obsessed with the paranormal.
0:27.9	This Halloween, we're stepping away from the beautiful homes we usually write about to tell a
0:32.0	different kind of story.
0:33.4	From cursed cottages to abandoned estates, we're uncovering the twisted histories of America's most notorious homes.
0:40.9	So lock your doors and leave the lights on.
0:44.2	This is Dark House.
0:50.5	So my warm-up question for you, do you know what you're supposed to do if you get kidnapped and they put you in the trunk of the car?
0:56.5	No.
0:57.2	Really?
0:58.3	I'd mean like just knock yourself out so you don't remember it.
1:02.5	That is not the right answer.
1:03.8	I don't know.
1:04.4	What are you supposed to do? the tail light out and like either get your hand out of the hole of the tail light or like anything
1:11.7	that's in the car like a shirt, a rag, whatever and like stick it out and wave it. So now I know
1:17.1	that if the killer gets you, you're a goner. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, well, good to know. Anyways, we can
1:22.6	get started. Yes. Okay. Hello, everyone and welcome to Dark House. I'm'm Hadley Mendelson, your co-host, and also a senior
1:30.5	editor at House Beautiful. And I'm Alyssa Furentino, your other co-host. I'm the director of brand
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