Life as a Ghost Hunter

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My mother has spent much of her life chasing ghosts. She frequently visits graveyards, reviewing names and tombstone designs, searching for lost family members. When I was a kid, every summer she dragged me around her home state of Louisiana to every tiny, family-owned cemetery she could find. They were creepy old places, thick with heat and the smell of the swamps. Energy lingered everywhere. I could feel it when we walked by the decrepit…