CW: Death, Rot, People putting things in their various orifices
Is that grandma’s famous cookie recipe? Dad’s cigar? Or the unholy scent of brimstone? The crew today talk about what ghosts smell like… or, more accurately, what smells happen around ghosts. Eau de Mort is a concoction of concepts— after all, it would be rude to ask a strange ghost if we could smell them.
This is an in-depth look at what Mike McGinley does as a chemical engineer working for The Haunted Basement producing smells for their very cool haunted house.
And this is the direct link to The Haunted Basement website where you can read all about the super cool things they do and find the link to their Patreon where they are asking for support until they can reopen after Covid.
This is a link to the Gettysburg Battlefield tours where they talk about their ghost experiences and how people tend to experience ghosts around the battlefield.
This link will take you to the story about the woman’s dad. I’m not spoiling that silly story. You’ll have to click to read. There’s more in the article about ghost smells too.
This is the longer article I referenced a good bit at the beginning of the episode. There’s a lot of little stories in here about people and their ghost smell stories including pictures and a good bit about Civil War soldiers.
This one is just an interesting article about a ghost/death smelling perfume.
This link about ectoplasm presents it as maybe being real and it has several really interesting pictures.
This link is about ectoplasm as well which approaches it from a much more scientific manner, provides sources, has lots of pictures, and talks a lot about the photography and investigation processes.
This is a physical book I checked out because I was trying to track down this thing about the smell of ectoplasm. So if you’re interested in a book about spirits, the media, and how that went as we transition through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, here’s a book for that.
And here’s a link where you can read about some actual causes of those phantom smells that are often attributed to ghosts.
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