About “Growing Up Haunted”
The first full episode has just published and we couldn’t be more excited to share this story of growing up in a haunted house.
But first: as we think through what exactly is this podcast, a few (disjointed?) flickers illuminate the way. We want to tell a kind of ghost story from a unique guest, and then wrap what the guest gives us with our narrative. And we don’t want to know what the guest will say ahead of time, so that as interviewer we can feel surprise and we can react without notes and without preconception.
We do not want to make everything connect. If there are fall-offs, lapses, incongruencies – that’s being a human. That’s what thinking feels like. There is something immensely satisfying about hearing, say, Coltrane or Garcia wander off and then come back again. Can we do this narratively? Dare we try?
We’re interested in not just ghost stories. That is to say, we’re interested in ghost stories. Of course. And also, we’re interested in people who have seen ghosts and we’re interested in where they’ve seen ghosts and we’re interested in the history of those places where the ghosts are seen. Places in geography. Places in time. And places in consciousness. And we use that word consciousness quite deliberately, because we think consciousness and time both have a hall of mirrors effect, where there is the one object reflected into every direction and as you look at the whole situation you discover that any perceived fixed point is an illusion. A fabrication.
Grab a thread dangling from what looks like a fixed point and pull and it just unravels into nothing.
We’re interested in that unravelling.
Back to Ronaldo. He grew up in a haunted house, raised by loving parents, in a time of great change. We think you’ll enjoy hearing from him.
Final thought: Nicholas D’Amico was kind enough to help with the composition of the entire season we’re going to be releasing and we’re really excited to share what he’s done. And we have a few guest musicians to introduce throughout the season. So stay tuned for that.