Sick Houses and America's Gothic Soul with Leila Taylor

About this episode

Bridget Marquardt interviews gothic scholar Leila Taylor about haunted houses and the connection between architecture and fear.

On this week's episode, Bridget Marquardt sits down with writer, speaker, and gothic scholar Leila Taylor for a fascinating conversation about haunted houses, paranormal experiences, horror films, death rituals, and the eerie connection between architecture and fear. Leila shares stories about Lily Dale, residual hauntings, the stone tape theory, ley lines, ghostly encounters, and why certain places seem to hold emotional energy long after tragedy occurs. Leila also discusses her book Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, which explores the relationship between horror, domestic spaces, gothic culture, and the homes that shape our fears. Follow Ghost Bunny Podcast on Instagram - @ghostbunnypodcast

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Marquardt

Guest: Leila Taylor

Topics covered

• haunted houses
• paranormal experiences
• horror films
• death rituals
• gothic culture

Keywords

• haunted houses
• gothic culture
• paranormal
• architecture
• emotional energy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread

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