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An intellectual feast for followers of offbeat history, Ghostland takes listeners over a highway trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places - and deep in to the dark side in our history. Colin Dickey is on the path of America's ghosts. Crammed into old homes and hotels, empty prisons and bare clinics, the spirits that linger continue steadily to get our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in LA that unveiled derelict foreclosures and "zombie homes", Dickey embarks over a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed inside our most famous haunted places. Some established reputations as "the most haunted mansion in the us" or "the most haunted jail"; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memory from days gone by our collective land tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the inactive by concentrating on questions of the living - just how do we, the living, deal with tales about ghosts, and just how do we inhabit and undertake spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the real facts behind a ghost history but also to the ways that changes to those fact is made - and just why those changes are created - Dickey paints a version of American history overlooked of the books, one of things still left undone, crimes still left unsolved. Spellbinding, frightening, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers days gone by we're most afraid to talk about aloud in the bright light of day is the same earlier that will linger in the ghost tales we whisper in the dark.
