Spectrophilia: Till Death Do Us... Wait, That Won't Work

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is talking all about Love from Beyond the Grave!

Have you ever felt a presence in your bedroom late at night? A cold touch when no one was there? For most, these moments spark fear – but for some, they spark romance.

Spectrophilia – sexual or romantic attraction to ghosts – exists in a fascinating limbo between psychological curiosity and paranormal experience. Our deep dive takes you through centuries of ghost marriages across cultures.

Then we explore modern cases that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about relationships. Meet Amanda, a psychic medium who married a 300-year-old Haitian pirate ghost named Jack in international waters.  Or Brocarde, whose romance with Victorian soldier Eduardo ended when he began haunting her with the sounds of screaming babies. These aren't fictional tales – these are real people who've appeared in mainstream media documenting their spiritual marriages and subsequent divorces.

Have you ever experienced unexplained romantic encounters? Send us your paranormal relationship stories – we promise not to ghost you.

Reference Shout Outs: 

• https://www.them.us/story/kesha-ghost-sex-encounter-supernatural

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrophilia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia

• https://people.com/human-interest/woman-who-married-300-year-old-pirate-ghost-announces-marriage-is-over/

• https://nypost.com/2022/12/11/singer-who-married-a-ghost-claims-he-ruined-their-honeymoon/

• https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/09/dead-when-wed-ghost-marriages-in-china/

• https://myend.com/country/south-sudan/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuer_peop

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