Featured Friday: Ghost Stories

Drew Marquardt

26 Sep 2025 — 1 min read

I was going to use an image from The Sixth Sense, but honestly those ghosts still scare me too much

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This week, we cross into the spirit realm for some of our favorite cinematic ghost stories. Ghosts are a fixture of folklore across humanity, and stories about them are rarely one genre – they’re often just as romantic or funny or heartbreaking as they are scary. They’re an access point to our subconscious, which is probably why they stick with us long after they’ve expired.

Our collection includes:

A Nightmare on Elm Street by Wes Craven
American Horror Story - “Pilot” by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk
Beetlejuice Warren Skaaren and Michael McDowell
Coco by Adrian Molina & Matthew Aldrich
Crimson Peak by Matthew Robbins & Guillermo del Toro
Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan
Ghost by Bruce Joel Rubin
Ghostbusters by Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd
Ghosts (US) - “Pilot” by Joe Port & Joe Wiseman
Insidious by Leigh Whannell
Nanny by Nikyatu Jusu
ParaNorman by Christopher Butler
Poltergeist by Steven Speilberg
The Conjuring by Hayes Brothers
The Haunting of Hill House - “Steven Sees a Ghost” by Mike Flanagan
The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan
What Lies Beneath by Clark Gregg

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