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The History of Bedsheet Ghosts
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Happy Halloween boos & ghouls! 👻
We are thrilled to throw on our costumes and rip the shiny wrapper off on our spooktacular October series, featuring deep dives on specific spooky topics related to the history of All Hallows’ Eve! 🎃
In Part 3 of this month-long series, Lauren uncovers the history of the most classic icons of Halloween: the bedsheet ghost! Dating back to the 19th century, this simple yet scary imagery began with the very real and very macabre process of wrapping dead bodies in burial shrouds instead of coffins! “Look, no feet!” Lauren goes onto explore bedsheet ghosts many appearances in pop culture, in everything from Beetlejuice to Charlie Brown to E.T. as well as ghost impersonators and even a real life bedsheet ghost murder! Sheet just got scary.
We hope you enjoy these hair-raising Halloween episodes in October! Stay tuned for more tricks & treats and in the meantime: reach out to us on Instagram at @sinistersisterspodcast if you have more topic ideas for us to cover!
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Introduction to Sinister Sisters Podcast
00:00:12
Speaker
Welcome to the Sinister Sisters podcast. I'm Lauren. I'm Felicia. We're best friends. And we like spooky stuff. Yeah. Okay.
Favorite Halloween Costumes
00:00:23
Speaker
So should we start with our fun Halloween thing this week? Let's do our little Halloween moment. Our Halloween moment this week, we were going to talk about some of our favorite Halloween costumes of old, which I don't know how far back we want to go.
00:00:40
Speaker
I don't know what my first one was. Do you know what your first? I don't know what my first one was. I know the earliest Halloween picture of me that I think I've seen. I am dressed as a crayon. And I'm not going to lie. I'm cute. I think it's red. I'm adorable. I had like curly hair. Very cute. The ringlet Felicia stage was really. Absolutely. But then I did have this princess costume that I don't know what
00:01:10
Speaker
story this particular princess was supposed to be from. But it was my favorite because it was like pink and it had this
00:01:19
Speaker
like, I don't know the material, but this pink, yeah, like tulle strip of fabric, actually I still have it, that had these like silver stars on it. And then it had a silver crown that was like a crown of thorns, like silver thorns. And I thought it was like bad ass. I was like, this is a bad ass princess costume. So I wore that multiple years in a row. I was like, no, I'm good with this one. I've got, I'm good.
00:01:50
Speaker
What I grew, I don't care. I love it. It was just a short length then cocktail dress. It just got shorter every year. That's one of my most, that's my early memory good one. I love that. That's what we have like one of my, I think the earliest picture I've seen of myself on Halloween is like,
00:02:10
Speaker
I'm dressed as Glinda the Good Witch and my older brother is Dracula and my dad did a really intense vampire makeup on him and he's pretending to bite my neck and I look like the most blonde pink dressed little girl and I'm screaming or pretending to scream.
00:02:31
Speaker
That's adorable. I would love to see that picture. That sounds very cute. It's pretty cute. I'll find it for you. But we also, I know we've talked about this, or at least I should have a picture from my, my favorite was one year I decided I was an alien princess. And it's like black glitter. Oh yeah, I didn't even posted that one. Yes. The costume that makes no sense, but we like it. I still have no idea what I was thinking. And it was like, you can just, I mean, it's kind of like your crown of thorns thing, where it's like, why was that a little kid's like,
00:03:01
Speaker
Like I think I just wanted to be like black and glittery. That was the whole thing. And so you had to. I was going to say I'm pretty sure it's on our page somewhere. I don't know exactly where. But if you scroll enough into our Instagram, you'll find it. You'll find that icon. Yeah. And I know I've told my cat story on the podcast, too, of showing up at the all the first girl party. I think you should tell it again. OK. Tell it again. It's that good. I think it would be wrong not to tell it.
00:03:30
Speaker
So this was like my Katie Herron and Mean Girls moment really where like I was I think like 13 maybe or 12 and it was like you know the first time you were going to like a boy girl party and middle school and I was so excited to I love Halloween like I've always taken it very seriously and I showed up in a airbrushed
00:03:57
Speaker
full spandex suit and a Cruella wig that my dad and I had cut in half and sewn back together. No. To be just the white halves. And I showed up as a cat from the musical Cats. It was a specific one also. I was Rumpel Teaser from Cats the Musical. Mr. Rastoffelez, but yeah, the Rumpel Teaser.
00:04:23
Speaker
But I showed up and for some reason most of the girls at the party were dressed as the pink ladies. They all made a phone call beforehand and you were not on that phone train. The best is like they were all like really cute and dress in like pink little jackets and like tight pants and like everyone had like little heels. When I walked in, I was horrified.
00:04:49
Speaker
But the girl I ended up hanging out with, have I ever told you this piece? It was like a girl I wasn't even really friends with because my friends were dressed as the pink ladies like the traders they were. No, I hung out with this girl who had a trash bag. That was like a big transparent trash bag that she had put balloons in and she was jelly beans. No, not jelly beans.
00:05:19
Speaker
That is good. She was just a bag of jelly beans. You're just a kitty cat that sings. A kitty cat that sings and steals stuff. I thought it was so cool. It's like the most crushing. It is cool. That costume is legit. I've seen pictures of that costume. It's incredible.
00:05:42
Speaker
Was I kissed by a boy that night? No. I mean, with the full face of cat makeup, I don't think you could have been. It'd be all over him. It'd be all over him. There are no secrets there. I remember so distinctly the feeling of getting out of the car and being like, I am hot stuff, and then getting back in the car at the end of the night being like, mom, everyone was dressed as the pink ladies.
00:06:12
Speaker
That kills me. And it's like, that's who I'd want as my child. Like, to be fair, it's like, I would be like eye rolling if my kid was one of the pink ladies. I want my kid to be the trash bag Jelly Bean or the cat. I love the
Horror Movie Discussions
00:06:29
Speaker
Jelly Bean's girl. I hope she's doing well out there. Yeah, me too. Me too. That's great. I loved it. Do you have any embarrassing Halloween stories? Just me.
00:06:39
Speaker
Should I even tell this on the podcast? Once when I was very young, I dressed up as Scary Spice, and I didn't realize that that wasn't perfect.
00:06:50
Speaker
Did you color your face? No, no, but I did my hair, but I was, I was, I had, I didn't know. I didn't know. And the reason that I at the end, the reason, Oh, I actually, I was scary spice because I thought she was the coolest. Of course she is. I was Hispanic, which was close enough, I guess. And everyone else was white. Oh man.
00:07:16
Speaker
we should be able to dress up as Scary Spice. I think that's fine. Yeah, I mean, yes, I did not make my skin dark that I'm grateful I did not have that thought. I know. Oh, wait, you want to hear the worst. I read this one kid. There's no way he's ever able to do this. This one kid in middle and no, actually, maybe it was elementary school. I think we were in fourth or fifth grade. And for Halloween, his mom dressed him up.
00:07:44
Speaker
as a terrorist terrorist. I couldn't say it as a terrorist with a bomb. No, I don't think he had a term, but he had like a bomb thing on his backpack and was like dressed as a terrorist from like, like Iraq. Like post 9-11? Yes. No.
00:08:10
Speaker
Yes. And so he came to school and he said, I got yelled at a lot. And I said, what? I was like, what? And he's like, yeah, I went trick or treating and parents kept yelling at me that my costume was inappropriate. And I was like, well, what was it? And he was like, I was a terrorist. And I said, that is inappropriate. I was like, your mom, your or whoever, your guardian said that was okay to you.
00:08:38
Speaker
And like, whose idea was this? That's where I'm like, did he have an idea? I don't know. But this is horrifying. I'm just like, Oh, that's the worst. It's so bad. That's really the worst. I mean, I feel like most people are like, they've been Aladdin or Mulan or
00:08:59
Speaker
Sure. Pocahontas. Especially with kids, I'm like, you should be able to be whatever princess you want. That's how I feel. Yeah. If you want to dress up as Jasmine, if you want to dress up as whatever. Yeah. It's not about that. It's about who you look up to. Yes. And I think that's cool. Yes. God damn it, don't you dare dress as a terrorist.
00:09:24
Speaker
That is the worst I've ever heard. Some racist, scary, just bad. Just bad. That's really bad. Yeah, I don't think I have any other embarrassing ones, so I think we can move on. It's probably good.
00:09:42
Speaker
Oh, do you have, I forgot we didn't really talk about recommendations. I can do mine very briefly. So I saw, I finally, after all this time, watched Evil Dead from 2013. We have been waiting for the day for many years, Lauren. It was so good, honestly. I know. I know. It's incredible. The blood rain, I mean, it's iconic.
00:10:07
Speaker
I thought what was craziest was the idea that she was going through withdrawal. Oh, I know. Yeah. Then it's like, is she going through withdrawal? Is she possessed? All of that. I was like, so smart. Yeah, it's great. It's really good.
History of Bed Sheet Ghosts
00:10:22
Speaker
So good. It's just scary. Yeah.
00:10:25
Speaker
It's just one of the bloodiest movies I've ever seen. I know. And it really like it felt like, oh, we're doing something different with the class, you know, with Evil Dead where I was like, I did not expect that. I thought it was just going to be like, let's do another version of like the same thing. And it feels very different. This is exactly what I would want out of like a nightmare on Elm Street remake.
00:10:51
Speaker
Yeah. Just in terms of the creativity, the budget, the right kind of people. Yeah, that's how I feel. And just felt like there were enough nods to the original, but doing its own thing. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And so many growth score effects. Oh, you know what comes out tomorrow is the new Mike Flanagan thing. It'll actually be out the time this podcast comes out, but the midnight club. Is that what it's called?
00:11:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really excited. I hope we talk about it on our next episode, I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure I'll probably watch it this weekend, but that's great. I'm so glad you liked it. I'm so happy for you for experiencing it. So good. I know we also, I mean, I don't even know that it's even, I'm like, I don't want to take too much of our podcast time, but we did watch the orphan and orphan first kill as well. Yes.
00:11:49
Speaker
which also were fine. I think I felt really, really bad. I spoiled the first one for James because I didn't ever dream that he didn't know. He hasn't seen it? He hadn't until we just saw it, and he didn't know the twist. I was like, at this time? At this time, you don't know? Especially with First Kill, if he had watched the trailer for First Kill, he would have known the twist of the first one.
00:12:20
Speaker
I enjoyed the first one and then I found Orvin's first kill. I had a really hard time with them de-aging her. I was like, I don't know. That's so funny. I was kind of like over it after the first like 10 minutes.
00:12:35
Speaker
I was like, I wish they'd cast someone else. I was like, just get a little kid. I think what also probably your experience of watching one and then the other versus I watched one and then watch the other one like five years later. So I wasn't as thinking about what she looked like when she was 10, which is very different. I think you're exactly right. I think spacing it out would have been much better because when you do it back to back, you're like, why did we do this? I know.
00:13:03
Speaker
But I did like the twist. Yeah, I like to twist a lot. And I was so impressed with what's her face from the Julia Stiles. Yes, Julia Stiles. I don't know why I couldn't pull it out, but I thought she was great. Absolutely. Like what a fun part for her. Yeah. Oh, you know what I watched? I watched it for Hornaby Club, but I will talk about it here because it was a really scary and that was VHS. Oh, my gosh. I'm scared.
00:13:34
Speaker
It is scary. It feels, especially the first part of the movie, feels like how found footage is supposed to feel, which is like I'm watching something I'm not supposed to watch that was filmed by somebody that's a terrible person. You feel uncomfortable.
00:13:54
Speaker
It's so uncomfortable. It's not really in a fun way until the end of the first segment when the more fun horror stuff happens. It's just very like, you're like, ooh, I feel like it keep watching this. So they did their job, I guess, because I think that was probably the intention. But I am curious to check out some of the other ones, particularly VHS 94, I think is the one that people might check out.
00:14:18
Speaker
I don't even know how many there are. I think that's the most recent one that's not the newest one, I think. I don't know. I haven't watched any of them because I'm too scared. Yeah, it's pretty scary. It's pretty scary stuff. Yeah, and it's very graphic, but because of the fountain footage, it just feels, once again, it feels like something, yeah, it feels too real at times.
00:14:40
Speaker
Maybe I'm just getting soft in my old age. Who knows? You're disturbed easily now. Yeah, I couldn't get through Dahmer. Can't watch VHS. What's wrong with me? I used to be so tough. I'm going to have to have like a, I don't know, a disclaimer on your YouTube channel. Only baby horror movies. I don't watch anything too scary. No, I love it. I probably should watch VHS just because I do feel like fountain footage was just
00:15:09
Speaker
such a well done kind of horror genre. All right, shall I jump in? Jump in, dive. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. So I'm talking about the history of bed sheet ghosts. It is kind of a- What's a funny topic? I know, I know. It was James' idea. He has a particular fondness for bed sheet ghosts. And I think in general, I think a lot of people feel that way. I'll talk about at the end all the kind of
00:15:39
Speaker
modern versions of it, but definitely something that has been in our culture kind of similar to the other things we've talked about where I've never really thought about why do we depict ghosts sometimes as like a sheep over a thing.
00:15:56
Speaker
So I'm going to tell you a little bit, but going back even as far as Shakespeare, this was not something that really existed. Hamlet's father's ghost appears to him in body armor, a Christmas carol. Jacob Marley's ghost shows up in the clothes that he wore when he was alive with just
00:16:16
Speaker
Chains on chains. Yes, I love the chains. Yeah. So it wasn't really, you know, it hasn't always been a thing, I guess is what I wanted to say. But, you know, with these depictions of ghosts that were just in their normal clothes, it became difficult over time or like they were, I think, looking for something that made them more distinct like in theater or even in just like
00:16:42
Speaker
artwork of different kinds. So showing who was alive and who was dead became a thing. So ghosts started appearing in illustrations or theater first in their burial shrouds. So basically, in the 19th century,
00:17:01
Speaker
the dead were almost always wrapped in their burial shrouds rather than maybe even placed in coffins. And in poorer families, this is so crazy or sad to me. Basically, they would just like whatever bed, you know, whatever they were laying in in their deathbed when they died, just like wrap them up, tie it with a knot on either end and put them in the ground that way. So yeah, pretty cool. That's darker than I expected.
00:17:31
Speaker
I know. So that is kind of the first idea of ghosts wrapped in, or bodies wrapped in fabric. And they were this normally white fabric that's kind of billowy. And so when we know, I think if anyone's interested, they can go back and listen to our episodes from last year where we talk about the history of Halloween.
00:17:56
Speaker
But we know that Halloween started in kind of turn of the century America where multiple traditions were brought over from Europe. Irish immigrants were bringing all their Celtic paganism.
00:18:12
Speaker
And so costumes were starting to, or, you know, people dressing up on Halloween or celebrating that way, like kids dressing up, started at a time that things had to be cheap and so, and simple. And so that's kind of the idea that, you know, probably ghost started the idea of like just using a bed sheet started at that time.
00:18:34
Speaker
And even in, there was a 1920 cover of the Saturday Evening Post where Norman Rockwell drew a little girl in a bed sheet on Halloween next to her grandfather pretending to be scared. So I'll see if I can find that for our Instagram. But that seems like one of the very
00:18:55
Speaker
earliest depictions of like a kid in a bed sheet pretending to be a ghost, which is so fun. Is it not like the little eye holes? I think so. You'll see it in the picture. So this trend continued
Cultural Shifts in Ghost Depictions
00:19:11
Speaker
into the Great Depression even. There's another book that is like it's Phyllis Gillembos photo series that can be found in the book Dressed for Thrills, A Hundred Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade.
00:19:25
Speaker
So, got to look at that book. Get us that book. I know, right? We should have a wish list somewhere. Right. Oh my gosh. But it includes, you know, how to or includes a homemade pillowcase ghost mask from the 1930s, which I don't know that I've really thought about pillow sheets or I mean, sorry, pillowcases on your head. Pillow sheets. Sorry.
00:19:55
Speaker
I love it. I don't know that I've thought about pillowcases. I feel like I've always seen sheets. I want to see a pillowcase ghost. People dressing as ghosts in bedsheets for Halloween led to it being more of a stereotype for how ghosts look otherwise. The cool thing is it led to people even impersonating ghosts outside of Halloween. I know.
00:20:24
Speaker
In 18th and 19th century London, there was this series of ghost pranksters who were people that put sheets on themselves to scare people for fun.
00:20:41
Speaker
So some particularly sinister cases of this were like people trying to frighten people badly enough that they would run out of their homes and then criminals could come in and rob them or they could double back and rob them. So that idea is really interesting to me.
00:21:01
Speaker
In 1804 London, there was also a bricklayer named Thomas Millwood, who was actually this kind of sad, was mistaken for an evil ghost and was just shot by his neighbor and killed.
00:21:17
Speaker
Yeah. So the neighbor had seen Millwood's, he had like a white work uniform that had a white apron and this man just like assumed he was a ghost and just shot and killed him. And local residents and a night watchman at the time had recently reported being terrorized by a spirit. So like the town was worried that there was a ghost.
00:21:44
Speaker
And so that kind of was like his reason for shooting him. And even at the murder trial that followed, the man who died, his wife said that her husband had been mistaken as a ghost by three other people before this shooting. And she had asked him to start wearing a coat over it, but he didn't listen.
00:22:04
Speaker
And get this, this is the real shocking part of this story is that the man who shot him was found guilty of murder and he was sentenced to one year of hard labor. Like on the railroad? Not in jail, living his life. Oh, little ball and chain, little railroad time, then go home. You're good. Yes. Wow.
00:22:29
Speaker
Can you imagine if murder was still one year punishment? Yeah, they're like, you know, it's not such a big deal these days. That's just all around us. I know. I think that probably is true. It's like imagine, I guess like if you shot a man who was like in his 40s, it was probably like you only had 10 more years left. Oh my God, that's terrible. But it's true. I'm just kidding. That's crazy. That's really sad. But I just thought that was a wild story. But you would think that like,
00:22:59
Speaker
They did actually find out that the spirit that people were worried about was in fact a man impersonating a ghost for some sort of personal revenge, but this didn't really lead to the general public being more reasonable or
00:23:17
Speaker
not shooting people. In 1889, there was back in the US, a Missouri newspaper conducted this poll asking if people believed in spirits. There was a reader named J.W. Wills who wrote in to say that he had seen two ghosts in his life and one was a large white object with long horns that he would have shot if he'd had his pistol with him.
00:23:46
Speaker
So people just still shooting at ghosts. And then another reader wrote in to say that ghosts are nearly always white, although some of the authorities admit that there are dark ones. I should say, however, that the genuine ghost is always white and always makes its first appearance at the haunted spot at precisely 12 o'clock midnight. Who are the authorities of which she speaks? The police?
00:24:16
Speaker
All the authorities. I like the idea of this, I don't know, 1800s people, what they thought of as ghosts. But right around this time, the rise of spiritualism in the mid-19th century also comes into play. So that's basically
00:24:38
Speaker
people alleging that they were mediums, kind of more interest in afterlife or ghost sightings, all of that was kind of on the rise. And so these people that were alleging to be mediums could prove their credentials by using sheets, whether it was like hiding people under them or sometimes these people pretending to be mediums with like,
00:25:06
Speaker
fishing line sheets up to dangle or scare people so that people thought that they were communicating with the spirits or having some access to people in the afterlife. And so this was another kind of string of people pretending to be mediums that were disgraced.
00:25:30
Speaker
And that spanned well into the 20th century. And this also like kind of happened with people taking pictures. So there was a French medium and photographer named Edouard Bouquet, maybe if it's French. And he spent a year in jail for fraud in 1874, when it was discovered that these famous ghost photos that he had were just dummies covered in sheets, which
00:26:00
Speaker
I also think it's so funny when I think about our TikTok culture now of so many people being like, my house is haunted. I know, I get so much of that content. Look at what's happening. Yeah. Which some of it's really well done, but I'm still just the idea, again, of this man went to jail for a year because he faked these photos and so did his friend down the street who murdered someone. Wow, that's wild.
00:26:27
Speaker
The TikTok stuff is interesting to me because it's like even if any of them were telling the truth where no one's going to believe them, even though they were like, I documented it like you told me to and I put on the Internet like they always say to and they still don't believe me. I know. I don't really know the I mean, I think it's just good content. Oh, yeah, for sure. But I agree with you that I don't think they're really going to get help from that. Hmm.
00:26:54
Speaker
So, you know, there was another kind of example of this Scottish medium who released photos of herself with a ghost that ended up just being a doll under a white sheet. So it's kind of everywhere, this like ghost being white forms, and then people were dressing up as bed sheet ghosts for Halloween. But then kind of the big, you know, or a big
00:27:17
Speaker
pop culture moment for ghosts was in 1937, Disney released The Lonesome Ghosts, which is a eight-minute cartoon. Have you seen it? Just like a little short. Sounds really familiar. I'm sure you've seen, or at least have like heard of it, but it's basically like Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are ghost exterminators. Oh, yes. Yeah.
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah, so the ghost words, yes, the imagery is like, I'm sure you've seen it, but these ghosts were actually not bed sheet ghosts, but the interesting thing is that they're transparent with hats and faces, but they have these kind of like loose clothes that seem to be made out of sheets. So it's a little bit bed sheet ghosty. Yeah. And then of course we get Casper the friendly ghost to debut.
00:28:11
Speaker
In 1939 originally, I didn't know this is such a- 1939? Wow. Yes, I know. This is such a weird little tangent, but I just thought it was interesting really quick. So he was created by Seymour Wright and Joe Orelo with the intention of it being a children's book. But when Seymour was away at war before the book was released, Joe ended up selling the rights to the book to Paramount Pictures.
00:28:40
Speaker
for a total of 175, $175. Oh, I thought you were saying $1.75. I mean, still, 175 is bad. Still bad.
00:28:54
Speaker
So Paramount has owned Casper the Friendly Ghost and, you know, that's all he ever saw financially. He didn't get to release the book. It's just, it's very sad. That's so sad. But I didn't even know that the original animation that was called The Friendly Ghost was released in 1945. So still a long time for Casper to exist in our world. Yeah, absolutely.
00:29:23
Speaker
But the reason I bring this up is because this was kind of the transition of ghosts going from being scary or like these mostly scary things to being a little bit more silly.
00:29:35
Speaker
And so that like kind of led people away from wanting to be bed sheet ghosts as well as the kind of like post-war consumer culture was like people should buy these like mass produced commercial Halloween costumes. Like if
Enduring Legacy of Bed Sheet Ghosts
00:29:54
Speaker
you had like a random sheet like it was thought of as like lame or whatever, you know, they wanted people to be or it was much cooler to have these kind of
00:30:05
Speaker
store-bought costumes. And this was also right around the time that the Ku Klux Klan began to enter the scene and kind of rise to fame. Oh no. I wasn't even thinking about that.
00:30:21
Speaker
Yeah, so unfortunately this really led to white sheets being associated with them and hatred. And so this, you know, the idea of like we need to buy fancy store-bought costumes and the KKK unfortunately led to bed sheet ghosts really going out of style as a Halloween costume.
00:30:44
Speaker
But they kind of came back around in this more, I think, obviously, lonesome ghosts and Casper and eventually Scooby-Doo. There are so many things that I think led to this tongue-in-cheek bed sheet ghost.
00:31:04
Speaker
using it as a way to trick people. I looked it up and I also forgot about when they dress up ET as a bed sheet ghost to trick or treat around, to keep him hidden. And then I love too, I'd forgotten that Willow and Buffy in one of those episodes puts like a sheet over herself too. I think she's like in like a sexy outfit or something, right? It's Willow, yeah. She puts on a sexy outfit and then she becomes invisible.
00:31:32
Speaker
crazy. I love it. But I think it was just interesting to learn about this history of them in our culture because I think it definitely owes more to probably those impersonators and fraudsters or pranksters than necessarily
00:31:49
Speaker
people seeing ghosts or Victorian specters or anything like that. The bed sheet ghost really feels like it's been much more silly or using it to hide things or tease people or any of that.
00:32:07
Speaker
So then I was going to ask if you have, you know, favorite bed sheet ghost portrayals too. I was thinking about the one from Halloween where Michael Myers puts on the sheet and pretends to be the, with the glasses over it, pretends to be the boyfriend. It really looks like the most jokester-y that Michael Myers gets. I know. He's like, look at me, I'm funny guy. Yeah, the Casper, I just actually have like been turning that on because I have the VHS of that one.
00:32:36
Speaker
So I've been turning that on like the last few nights, just as I fall asleep. So good. Very nice. Very relaxing. Very good. I love it. I always think of Beetlejuice too. Like when the Maitland's put on the bed sheet ghosts or when they put on the thing and pretend to be ghosts, even though they are ghosts. That's very funny. Yeah. And like Charlie Brown.
00:32:59
Speaker
Spongebob has a bed sheet moment. Absolutely. I'm sure any cartoon you can think of has a Halloween episode and somebody's wearing a bed sheet. Yes. And I think it's so interesting that, yeah, I just like it kind of blew me away when I was thinking about it where I was like, that's true though that like in horror movies now, like we never really think of, I don't know, like when you see a ghost, it would never be like something with a sheet over it, really.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yeah, I'm trying to even think, what's a recent ghost movie? I never saw a ghost story. Is that what it's called? That's a bed sheet one. I've never seen it either, but people say it's really good. Yeah, and I think there is a bed sheet ghost in it, at least the cover of it. That's like the cover, yeah. Oh, Phoebe Bridgers. Yeah, that's the ones I can think of right now.
00:33:57
Speaker
I know. It feels so scooby-doo to me too. That kind of world all feels the same. But anyway, that's my little history. That was so good. I love it. If you need a cheap costume this year. Hey, I love that. It's another thing where it's like this little Halloween thing or spooky thing that you don't think about where it comes from. So that's pretty cool. Good job.
00:34:24
Speaker
Amazing. Well, thank you all for listening this week. We hope you have some sweet, sweet nightmares.