Darkness Radio Sunday, November 29th, 2009: (show starts at 10:00 PM EST)
Dan & Peter Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd and his father, Peter H. Aykroyd, author of recently published book, A History of Ghosts, present the story of the Aykroyd family’s involvement with spirits, ghosts and extraordinary psychic phenomena. A unique opportunity to hear from life long students of the paranormal and to discuss mediums, séances and things that go bump.
Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family’s parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit, Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History of Ghosts starts in 1848 in upstate New York, where the spiritualist craze first began. Aykroyd introduces the reader to notable mediums while telling the story of the development of spiritualism, interweaving a personal history marked by a fascination with ghosts and spirits with the larger narrative about the role the paranormal has played in our culture. Such legendary figures as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini appear and vanish.
Peter Aykroyd is a retired Government of Canada Senior Executive. He is the author of two previous books, The Anniversary Compulsion and A Sense of Place. He lives on a plot of land 20 miles north of Kingston, Ontario, that has been in the family for 180 years.
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