Gay ghost hunters

Years and years of years of this stuff. You can come with us to the other house.

The Queer Ghostbusters Helping

When the ghost hunters get in touch with the spirits, their method seems to have more in common with a therapy session chaired by an especially welcoming LGBTQ counselor than an encounter with the unknown. As they explore some of the world’s most infamous haunted locations, they’ll shed light on those not seen and illuminate untold stories.

Source: ghostingseries And this time, one gay ghost-hunting duo really took things to the next level. Every ghost-hunting term that can be Queer-ified will be over the course of its eight episodes — get ready for “gay-eances” and “spook-kikis” to become part of the pop culture lexicon.

Enter Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan, the actors-turned-amateur ghost hunters behind Ghosting, a series where they travel across Canada to explore the most haunted spots. Nunneries, like theaters and opera houses, are promising for obvious reasons.

Queer Ghost Hunters is currently crowdfunding the money to produce a second season, but Gum is hopeful that the philosophy that animates the show lives on in other ways. Gum says that the other dead giveaways are mansions inhabited by rich men and women who never married while alive.

In one of their first adventures, the Queer Ghost Hunters attempt to make contact with dead nuns at a cemetery and nunnery. To her, the documentary series is the start of a revolution. By Stephen Andrew Galiher.

Have a spoo kiki

In one episodeGum appears to make contact with a dead nun called Madeleine—but instead of playing the encounter for dramatic thrills, Gum is positively overjoyed when the apparition appears to move the dowsing rods to profess that she was in a relationship with another sister.

But both quickly grew frustrated with the heteronormativity of the ghostbusting scene. The Ghost Hunters undertake meticulous research—looking at prison records and other documentation—to find places that might attract queer hauntings.

We are digging up these histories [that] are totally buried. From the creators of “Queer Eye,” five fabulous, queer ghost hunters criss-cross the country, helping the living by healing the dead. And it ends up creating this alternative history of these venues and the time and the cities.

So why is it that in all of these ghost shows, no one has ever found a queer ghost? While most ghost hunting shows feature straight, macho guys in flannel shirts charging around old buildings with EVP electronic voice phenomena recorders, Queer Ghost Hunters takes a friendlier, more community-oriented approach.

It sounds, weirdly, like the kind of outreach services that an LGBTQ rights non-profit would provide—albeit for the dearly departed. By Brent Koepp. Ghost hunting, like other marginalized and creepy pursuits like cryptozoologyis dominated by men. Photo courtesy of Stu.

I tell Gum that If I were a queer ghost and some buff straight guy came running into my eternal place of rest, I would definitely try to wreak some havoc and throw furniture around. I always say that in our community, a lot of things happened before Stonewall.

Instead of relying on fancy electronic equipment and testosterone to interact with ghosts, the group again deploys a friendly, empathetic approach. By Caleb Catlin. The Queer Ghost Hunters on their way to a haunted nunnery.