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A History of Ghosts: 1. Ancient Ghosts

1. Ancient Ghosts

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Kirsty Logan explores the evolution of ghost lore.

Kirsty Logan uncovers the ghosts that haunted our most ancient ancestors and which became the common ancestor for ghost stories across all eras and all cultures.

Illustration by Seonaid Mackay

'When was the first time a human felt haunted?'

Kirsty Logan travels back to the world’s earliest civilisations to uncover where tales of ghosts first emerged. 

From the earliest evidence of belief in an afterlife, seen in decorated bones in early grave sites, to Ancient Egyptian letters to the dead, and predatory Chindi unleashed to wreak deadly vengeance in the snowy wastes of North America, Kirsty tells the tales of the spirits that haunted our most ancient forebears, and became the common ancestor for ghost stories across all of human history.

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