Episode 9: True Crime and Ghosthunting: "It was JOHN!"

This week, Stella visits one of her fabourite YouTubers, Glam & Gore, and explores a video from the 2019 Halloween series where Mykie and friends stayed at various reportedly haunted locations. Merging historical true crime and ghosthunting, this YouTube video might just finally solved the 130 year old case of the Borden murders. Examining media crossovers of true crime, ghost hunting and the conventions of YouTube, this episode explores old and new media, the digital and the analogue, and their application to this very contemporary mode of true crime content. 

 

Glam & Gore video: 'Ghost told us who did the Lizzie Borden Murders' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_MbWnZHCmk&t=1404s

 

Glam & Gore video: 'I talked to a ghost at the haunted Chateau Marmont?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3QS-HciKo 

 

Glam & Gore video: 'I can't explain what happened in Salem.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDzJkcUyVGk 

 

Sources: 

Koven, M. J. (2007). 'Most Haunted and the convergence of traditional belief and popular television,' in Folklore, vol 118(2), pp. 183-202 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00155870701337403 

 

Reed, W. (2017, October 30). Ghost Hunting in the 21st Century: Science or Science Fiction? Sciencebuffs.org https://sciencebuffs.org/2017/10/30/ghost-hunting-in-the-twenty-first-century-science-or-science-fiction/ 

Sconce, J. (2000). Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Duke University Press

 

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