Welcome to The Moth.
I'm Sarah Austin-Genesse.
I've always believed in ghosts.
Believed in is such a funny phrase because spirits to me are of course around us.
At all times, I don't find this scary.
In fact, I find it comforting.
I and the other Moth directors travel the country, helping people tell their stories.
And we've stayed in a lot of hotels, a number of which are haunted.
In fact, once in New Orleans with our pop-up porch,
I was at a restaurant on Frenchman Street and I was tapped on the shoulder.
Double tapped, actually.
I turned around and no one was there.
Not only was no one there, but there was no door behind me, no entrance or way to exit.
And I told my friend next to me and she nodded with a smile.
Spirits are everywhere and I'm into it.
On this episode, in celebration of the spookiest of holidays, Halloween,
we've got three stories all about the larger forces at play in the universe.
Plus,
I'll talk with another Moth Director about some of the supposedly haunted hotels we've stayed at over the years.
First up, a story about Halloween itself.