Ghosts Were People Too
Claim This Podcastby Annabelle Bonebrake and Quest Zeidler
Podcast Overview
<p><span>Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties! Join your hosts Quest and Annabelle on cultural ghost tour in </span>Ghosts Were People Too,<span> a podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities. </span></p>
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10/27/2022
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April 24, 2026
18 - Macbeth Part 1: Is This a Dagger? The Great Chain of Being, Blood, Milk, and Gender
<p>Is this a dagger, an inanimate ghost, or something more Freudian? In this, the first of a two-part episode, Annabelle and Quest venture onto the blasted heath to explore the apparitions and queer hauntings of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We talk about Quest’s work on a recent production of the play at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and break down concepts regarding gender, kingship, violence, and the disruption of natural order.</p><p>Make contact:</p><p>@ghostswerepeopletoo (tumblr/instagram)</p><p><a href="mailto:gwp2pod@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">gwp2pod@gmail.com</a></p><p>Read Quest's article! “Revenge of the Monster Queer: The Cosmic Horror and Eldritch Liberation of Drag" in <a href="https://app.perusall.com/catalog/book/9781040683958" rel="nofollow">The Monstrous Utopian</a>, ed. Michael Chemers and Analola Santana, Routledge</p><p><strong>Bibliography</strong></p><ul><li>Bersani, Leo. “Is the Rectum a Grave?” In Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays. University of Chicago Press, 2010.</li><li>Clover, Carol J. “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” In Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Updated edition with a new preface by the author. Princeton University Press, 2015.</li><li>Jones, Gwilym. “Macbeth: supernatural storms, equivocal earthquakes” In Shakespeare’s Storms. Manchester University Press, 2015.</li><li>Love, Heather. “Macbeth: Milk.” In Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by Madhavi Menon. Duke University Press, 2011.</li><li>Menon, Madhavi. “Queer Shakes.” In Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by Madhavi Menon. Duke University Press, 2011.</li><li>Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Columbia University Press, 1985.</li><li>Varnado, Christine. “Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between.” In The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature. University of Minnesota Press, 2020.</li></ul>
October 28, 2025
17 - Ouija Boards (Happy Halloween 2025!)
<p>In this Halloween special, Quest and Annabelle talk about the poetics, play, and "dangers" of the Ouija board.</p><p><strong>Make contact:</strong></p><p>@ghostswerepeopletoo (tumblr/instagram)</p><p>gwp2pod@gmail.com</p><p><strong>Bibliography:</strong>“‘The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present’: Channeling, Television, and the New Age” by Hugh Urban, in Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, ed. Cathy Gutierrez</p><p>“Parlor Games: Play and Social Life in the Haunted House” in Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture by Simone Natale</p><p>“Wars and Ouija: Spiritualism in the Twentieth Century” in Calling the Spirits by Lisa Morton</p><p>“An Aesthetic History of the Ouija Board’ by Jesse Ryan Erickson, in Printing History</p><p>“James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and the Poetics of Ouija” by Helen Sword in American Literature, vol. 66, no. 3, 1994 https://doi.org/10.2307/2927604</p>
August 26, 2025
16 - I Do, I Do, I Did! The Bride(s) of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
<p>In this, the first of our series on Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Annabelle and Quest climb into the attic to uncover its ghostly brides, gothic backstory, and Disney’s spooky-funny balance. From the Beating Heart Bride to Constance Hatchaway, we ask what this haunted attic reveals about our fears, our histories, and our love of ghosts.</p><p><strong>Make contact:</strong></p><p>@ghostswerepeopletoo (tumblr/instagram)</p><p>gwp2pod@gmail.com</p><p><strong>Bibliography:</strong></p><p>Davison, Carol Margaret. “Southern Gothic: Haunted Houses.” The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic, edited by Susan Castillo Street and Charles L. Crow, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 57–74</p><p>Donovan-Condron, Kellie. “Twisted Sisters: The Monstrous Women of Southern Gothic.” The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic, edited by Susan Castillo Street and Charles L. Crow, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 369–83.</p><p>Giles, David. “The Thousandth Happy Haunt: Legends of Burial and Haunting at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion.” Western Folklore, vol. 74, no. 3/4, 2015, pp. 297–316.</p><p>Martens, Todd. “First Look: Disneyland’s Original Haunted Mansion Returns with a Heartbreaking New Scene.” Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025.</p><p>Steiner, Michael. “Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Architectural Packaging of the Mythic West.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 48, no. 1, 1998, pp. 2–17.</p><p>Surrell, Jason. The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic. Disney Editions, 2009.</p><p>Tromp, Marlene. “‘Throwing the Wedding-Shoe’: Foundational Violence, Unhappy Couples, and Murderous Women.” Victorian Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, pp. 36–54.</p><p>Truffin, Sherry R. “New Orleans as Gothic Capital.” The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic, edited by Susan Castillo Street and Charles L. Crow, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 151–65.</p><p>Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. “Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion.” Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp. 29–46.</p>
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- What is Ghosts Were People Too?
<p><span>Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties! Join your hosts Quest and Annabelle on cultural ghost tour in </span>Ghosts Were People Too,<span> a podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities. </span></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates bi-weekly.
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