Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying 8 items of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "ghosts".
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Coraline
October 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
00s, 2000s, animation, dakota fanning, fairy tale, ghost, ghosts, halloween, horror, ian mcshane, keith david, neil gaiman, parenting, stop motion, teri hatcher, they might be giants
Be careful what you wish for this Halloween. On this special it's a family affair as the Other Doug and the Other Ami welcome their children Celeste and Ben into the other world of 2009's Coraline. This stop-motion masterpiece spins a web and puts a button or two on a modern Grimm fairy tale about how the grass seems greener on the other side of a tiny mysterious door.
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Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
October 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 48 mins
1980s, 80s, army of darkness, bruce campbell, demon, demonology, demons, evil dead, ghost, ghosts, halloween, horror, necronomicon, sam raimi, zombie, zombies
There's only one word to describe Evil Dead 2 - Groovy! On this episode we're joined by deadite Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) to accidentally read from the Necronomicon and summon Sam Raimi's wild ride of horror, gore, and comedy that literally takes a chainsaw to just about everything. Headlined by human cartoon Bruce Campbell, the film remains a rollicking great blood geyser of Halloween fun.
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Ghost
May 26th, 2025 | 2 hrs 3 mins
afterlife, demi moore, ghost, ghosts, love story, patrick swayze, pottery, righteous brothers, romance, spirit, spirits, unchained melody, whoopi goldberg
For our final episode of Patrick MAYze, we're covering perhaps his most eternal film. Ghost is comedic, inventive, suspenseful, and most of all, a moving story of love transcending death, a long lonely time. We're joined by guests Ami Lief and Ryan Merlo to sing Unchained Melody and the praises of Swayze, Demi Moore, and Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg. We'd say we love this film, but instead, we'll just say "ditto".
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Ghostbusters 2
March 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
1980s, 80s, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ernie hudson, film, ghost, ghostbusters, ghosts, halloween, harold ramis, movie, movies, rick moranis, saturday night live, sigourney weaver, snl
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold. Ghostbusters 2 is a sequel that's anything but paint-by-numbers. We're gonna call superfans Dylan Gregory and Tania Newton to blow some positively-charged slime all over a film that keeps on lifting us higher and higher.
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Ghostbusters
January 1st, 2024 | 2 hrs 12 mins
1980s, afterlife, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ectoplasm, frozen empire, ghostbusters, ghosts, harold ramis, haunting, ivan reitman, rick moranis, sigourney weaver, slimer, snl, spirits
Who ya gonna call? For 40 years the story of blue-collar scientists with unlicensed nuclear accelerators exterminating paranormal threats has offered thrills, chills, and spills (of self-cooking eggs and marshmallow goo). On this episodes guests Dylan Gregory and Dan Oster (MadTV) join us to revisit why this comedy classic still has us in a trap four decades on. Grab a big twinkie and join us!
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The Haunted Mansion
October 31st, 2023 | 25 mins 18 secs
amusement park, attraction, disney, disneyland, disneyworld, ghost, ghosts, halloween, seance, seances, spirit, spirits
It's a bonus Halloween treat (no tricks) as 7-year-old Celeste joins her old podcasting dad to revisit classic Disney attraction The Haunted Mansion, and the 999 happy haunts who call it home.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 23rd, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
american literature, disney, ghost story, ghosts, halloween, headless horseman, horror, ichabod crane, literature, new york, revolutionary war, short story, sleepy hollow, tim burton, washington irving
Over 200 years old and still scaring people, Washington Irving's masterpiece remains a Halloween classic and an all-time great ghost story. On this episode we not only discuss it, but as a bonus, the entire tale is here as an audiobook for your enjoyment.
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Beetlejuice
October 3rd, 2022 | 34 mins 59 secs
beetlejuice, comedy, danny elfman, ghosts, halloween, movies, nostalgia, tim burton
Our first entry to the Nostalgium Arcanum is the ghost with the most.