I’d argue that ghost tours make light of how shitty the world was before. Many of them are basically recountings of how the poorest of the poor lived and died; fetishising their suffering for modern thrills. As I understand it, ghost tours basically try to find the most gruesome things that happened in the area and then built narratives around them that allow them to present them as “hauntings”.
But then I also don’t understand why true crime is such a big genre right now. It’s just not for me.
