Posts tagged with ‘Victorian’

  • Mar272024
    ghosts

    The Living and the Dead captures Victorian anxiety about science and the supernatural

    From telegraphs to televisions, latest technologies were often perceived as strange or magical in the favored mind. It is not…

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  • Mar232024
    ghosts

    Victorian scientists thought that they had found an evidence for ghosts, but the general public didn't need to hear it

    As the movie Ghostbusters showed, true believers within the supernatural rarely make it within the scientific community. Throughout history, scientists…

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  • Mar232024
    ghosts

    the BBC comedy's uncanny resemblance to a “real” Victorian haunted house

    Alison and her husband Mike inherit the run-down Button House and its group of eccentric ghosts from different periods of…

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