"A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't oft..."
- Colin Dickey
"Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping"
"The use of ghosts as a means of social control predated the Klan. Slave owners employed so-called patterollers, usually poor whites, who would patrol the countryside at night; such patrols would regul..."
"Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit."