In this March 2023 episode of the This American Life podcast, host Ira Glass takes three different angles on ghost stories, illustrating that ghosts rarely behave as we expect them to.

Whether you believe in ghosts or not, their presence is all around us. From friends and relatives we've lost to historical figures who haunt our collective memory, ghosts are an integral part of our culture.

In this March 2023 episode of the journalistic nonfiction podcast This American Life, host Ira Glass introduces three stories to demonstrate that the ghosts we actually encounter often behave a little differently than we might expect.

Opening with a prologue that sets the scene, Glass interviews Chaunte Vaughn, who has recently lost her mother. The episode then explores the post-colonial aspects of Savannah ghost tours, a woman who haunts her estranged family, and early 20th-century Spiritualism.