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    Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith

    You're Wrong About · Oct 14, 2025 · 1 h 44 min

    What do you get when you combine a horror movie audience, a spiritualist séance, and a haunted house attraction? Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1960s, midnight ghost shows were ghoulishly chaotic, wonderfully campy 4D theater performances that accompanied the scary movies of the era, beloved by a mostly-teenage audience who often became a part of the show themselves. Schlocky…