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Christmas Ghost Stories: A Victorian Fireside Tradition
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| Christmas was once a natural season for ghost stories. In the Victorian era, families and friends gathered during the year’s longest nights to share grim tales by the fire, joining holiday sociability with an older fascination for winter darkness.
This episode returns to that fireside tradition with a selection of seasonal supernatural storytelling. The cold weather, early sunsets and familiar rooms of Christmas provide a different atmosphere from the abandoned buildings and historic sites featured in many Richmond Haunts programs. Rather than tying the episode to one location, the program celebrates ghost stories as a communal holiday practice. It offers an old-fashioned companion for a winter evening and a reminder that the Victorian Christmas imagination held room for both comfort and unease. |
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