“When I was younger, before I was aware of the history of the holidays, that Andy Williams ‘scary ghost story’ line would strike me as incongruous,” said Allison Sansone, program director ...
(WTOP/Mike Murillo) Christmastime ghost stories never really caught on in the United States, according to Noble, despite singer Andy Williams promising, “There’ll be scary ghost stories ...
Eventually, through the generations, telling ghost stories became a facet of everyone’s holiday celebrations. “For a very, very, very long time, [the season] has provoked oral stories about ...
Those are the kinds of questions that the Brazilian documentary filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho asks in his penetrating, if at times meandering, film “Pictures of Ghosts” (in Portuguese ...