Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan.

Ouija boards, growing up in a haunted town…visions of our dead families… It's another normal episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week join Chiwan as he welcomes Joanna Penn Cooper the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis.  #Ouija #Visions #Dreams #Paranormal #GhostStories

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have artist, composer, performer Jasmine Orpilla, and we talk about her process of bringing objects into her work, objects that carry the spirits and history of her ancestors, and how that impacts her performance and those around her. Plus walking in Paris above the catacombs when you are a medium. It's not what you'd imagine. #hauntedobjects #catacombs #medum #psychic #paranormal

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have Jackson Bliss, prolific author of three books in the past 9 months, including the most recent Amnesia of June Bugs. We talk about growing up Hapa in a small town in Michigan, about the legacy of violence that is passed down & how hauntings get passed down to the smallest things—even into an army man. #haunting #hapa #mixedrace #JacksonBliss #Ghosts #Paranormal

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have the amazing writer, artist & activist Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed, co-creator and co-host of the groundbreaking podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. We discuss healthcare during pandemic & the mysterious (in the West) being called Jinn, while Taz tries to convince Chiwan to see her (checks notes) capitalist Republican Muslim psychic.   #jinn #muslim #spirits #psychics #paranromal #chiwanchoi #tazahmed

Haunted Coast to Coast In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have the incredible Rachel McKibbens, author of multiple books including BLUD, founder of the Pink Door Writing Retreat & co-owner of The Spirit Room in Rochester, NY. Rachel talks to Chiwan about the deaths of her father and brother from COVID, their long haunted house, and the demanding ghosts in her bar, a former 1850s morgue. A nothing held back conversation that is both frightening and moving. #TheSpiritRoom #HauntedHouse #Experiences #BLUD #Ghosts #Chi

You mean there's a whole island with spooky dolls? Find out on an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me Chiwan. Today's guest is poet and podcaster Karla Lamb and we talk about The Island of the Dolls, her own haunted doll story plus La Llorona and family ghost stories.  #charlacultura #LaLlorona #GhostStories #

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we are honored to have award-winning poet, critic, and educator Sandra Simonds, author of multiple books including TRIPTYCHS from Wave Books. We discuss her trip to Scotland with her sister's in-laws and a nice peaceful walk through a cemetary, a walk from which she brought home a dark companion that would remain attached to her for years.  #shadowfigure #attachment #cemetary #scotland #ghost

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we welcome poet Nichole Goff, author of the new book Lumes. We will be discussing what evil Harry Potter brought into the house according to her grandmother, and about a dark presence left behind on a chair, her terrified dog under the bed, and Nichole's absolute amateur move involving showers and haunted mirrors. #arizona #harrypotter #evilspirit #mirror

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we welcome writer and artist W.B. Clark. We talk about a fateful trip to visit her cousin in Los Angeles, where a Akashic Record Reader foretold of the book she would years later go on to write and illustrate, A Thousand Short Lives, and how that experience has inspired her to become a reader herself of the Akashic Record — a recording of all universal things to have occurred in the past, present, and future, and how she opens them up to help others and her own artistic practice. #akashicrecords #history #future #chiwanchoi #poetry

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have poet, editor, activist and curator Jill Bergantz, based in a tiny town in the historical and historically violent gold country. We discuss the legacy of women in the area, the violent history of life in that area, and the ghosts that roam the town—its homes, its museums, its streets—that has been literally built on so much blood soaked land. #goldcountry #norcal #ghosts #haunting

Welcome to an all new episode of “Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan.” This week join Chiwan as he welcomes writer Elle Johnson. You may know her work from Homicide, The Ghost Whisperer and Bosch. Today we hear her unbelievably true story from her new book “The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness.”  #TheGhostWhisperer #Bosch #Ghosts #Truecrime 

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, Pittsburgh poet, memoirist, and therapist Robin Clarke, author of LINES THE QUARRY joins us to talk about the mediums of Lily Dale, NY, the mysteries of family lore, and how there are hauntings more frightening and devastating than ghosts. #lilydale #medium #hauntings #family #ghosts

This week on Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan we are joined by multi- Bram Stoker Award winning writer and haunted historian Lisa Morton. We'll discuss the history of seances, ghost stories and her strange experiences exploring the Queen Mary, Stanley Hotel and the David Oman House.  #Seances #Ghosts #Haunted #StanleyHotel

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, prize-winning author of The Betweens and Continuity, Cynthia Arrieu-King joins us to talk about going to an IMAX theater to conduct a seance (but y tho?), letting those ghosts know how good you are before they terrorize you to death, and always, always checking out the vibes when you enter a room. #vibes #seance #haunted #ghosts

In this week's moving episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have futurist and best-selling author of the Phoenix Horizon trilogy, PJ Manney. We revisit her childhood growing up in a haunted mansion in the legendary Sleepy Hollow, about the gift that has been handed down in her family for generations, and about how her ability to see and talk to the dead has impacted her work as both writer and futurist. #ghosts #haunted #medium #haunting #sleepyhollow

In this week's moving episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have Florida-based poet Jubi Arriola-Headley, author of the incredible ORIGINAL KINK (Sibling Rivalry Press). We go deep and heavy in an emotional conversation about queerness, about family, about leaving family to find poetry, and to come to terms with an absent father, Daddy, who will visit once more long after death. But please, whatever you do, don't share this episode with Jubi's mother. #dreams #queerness #ghost #daddy  

In this week's eye opening episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have writer, editor, journalist Samantha Dunn. In an absolutely frightening story that you might mistake for the plot of the next movie in the Conjuring franchise, Samantha tells Chiwan about her time in the Gold Country when she and her husband moved into a house that, well, appears was already occupied. #haunted #haunted #hauntedhouse #goldcountry #conjuring

In this week's eye opening episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have Pittsburgh-based artist and poet Meg Shevenock, author of the award winning collection The Miraculous, Sometimes. Meg and Chiwan discuss her telepathic collaboration project, a note left for her at a cemetery by a child, and the lives carried in and built on discarded objects and places. #remnants #telepathic #ghosts #spirits #angels

In this week's eye opening episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have poet and curator Thomas Ahneesan based in the Pacific Northwest. In this highly anticipated interview, we talk about one of the most famously loved & feared cryptid — Sasquatch, with actual stories of people who lived and thrived alongside the Bigfoot community, and a photo that has changed the way our host thinks of the creature. #bigfoot #sasquatch #cryptid #alaska #paranormal #monster #ThomasAhneesan

Welcome to a new year and a new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. Today's special guest is poet and photorgrapher Clare Welsh, who is based in Pittsubrgh, PA. We talk about the cryptid she experienced as a child growing up in Pennsylvania, whether cryptids are creatures human beings thought we'd killed off, and about photography as an act of conjuring. Let's get to 'conjuring' up a good year! #Cryptids #Photography #Conjuring #Ghosts

Welcome to a jam-packed episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week I welcome Jennifer Pastiloff author of “On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, And Listing Hard.” We talk about witchiness, intuition, trauma, motherhood, dead people's houses and more! Be inspired!  #BeingHuman #HauntedHouse #Witch #intution #memoir 

This week we welcome writer and advocate Hillary Lefwich and she's got a lot on her mind. From the ghosts that haunt us to sleep paralysis, personal demons and psychic mediums. Cheers to another episode of Are You There, Ghost It's Me, Chiwan. It's a scream! #Ghosts #SleepParalysis #Demons #Pyschics 

In this week all. new episode Chiwan talks with the great filmmaker and author Steve De Jarnatt about his amazing film work including "Miracle Mile," "Cherry 2000," "Strange Brew," his new book "Grace for Grace" and of course GHOSTS! You won't wan to to miss this episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan.  #StrangeBrew #MiracleMile #Cherry2000 #Ghost

Welcome everyone to an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week we welcome author and theatre artist Sarah Kornfeld, whose new book THE TRUE is catageorized as a hybrid of memoir, true crime, autofiction and identifies as narrative non-fiction. That's without counting the long con, the disappearing girlfriends, and the ghost story. Trust us. It's like nothing you've heard before!   #TheTruev#AlexadruDarie #Romania #Truecrime #GhostStory

What's it like to grow up on Elm Street and have to take the school bus home? Welcome to Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week we're thrilled to have Cassandra Lane ("We Are Bridges"). We talk about horror movies, spirits of Louisiana, and ghost stories as family legacies. #ElmStreet #WeAreBridges #Dreams #GhostStories

What's it like growing up with a father who believes in extraterrestrials? Well, you learn things about your friends. Find out in this all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. Today we welcome Toni Ann Johnson, winner of the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Prize. Toni Ann Johnson is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. #UFO #abductees #iwanttobelieve

Welcome to an all new episode of "Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan." If writers are ghost makers are poets conjurers? Join Chiwan and his very special guest all the way from the mountains of Boone, North Carolina, Dr. Raymond Christian, twelve-time Moth Story Slam Champion and Fulbrigh Scholar, as he tells the tale of getting paid week after week...by a dead man. You really want to hear what Ray is saying. #Ghost #Haunted #Mothradio 

Welcome to an all new episode of "Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan." If writers are ghost makers are poets conjurers? Join Chiwan and his special guest all the way from Hong Kong, Collier Nogues, as they talk of Texas, Poltergeists and summoning spirits. #TexasGhostStories #RealPoltergeists #SummoningSpirits 

Welcome to an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week join Chiwan and his guest André O. Hoilette as they talk ghosts in the Caribbean, haunting in Ohio and the Flame Woman. André is a Jamaican-born poet living in Denver, Colorado and is a Cave Canem alumnus and the former editor of ambulant: A Journal of Poetry & Art and former assistant editor of Nexus Magazine. But this week, we're talking paranormal and poetry. Let's have some fun!  #FlameWoman #Haunted #CarribeanGhosts   

Welcome to an all new episode of "Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan." This week Chiwan welcomes the great Jennifer Brody aka Vera Strange. Topics include: Disney Chills, Disney Villains, Haunted Houses, Specter Deep Six, Ghost Soldiers and her grandmas orb and Hellraiser.  #VeraStrange #DisneyChills #HauntedHouses #GhostSoldiers #Hellraiser.

Welcome to an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week Chiwan welcomes award winning writer Jami Attenberg. Find out about the transformative encounter that turned Jami from a non-believer into full-on ghost-curious. From seeing ghosts in New Hampshire to  the state of hauntedness in New Orleans to her dog Sidney. A show so fun, it will scare the lit out of you!  #HauntedNewOrleans #GhostEncounter #HauntedNewHampshire #GhostLIt

So much going on this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. Meet poet Luke Johnson and does he have a story to share that he simply can't explain away. Spoiler alert: It's name is ‘Furia” and it's a demon speaking from a belly button? WTF? You tell us, crazy story! #DemonicEncounter #LukeJohnson #Exorcism #ChurchGroup #Kobe #GoLakers

From real ghosts to fashion ghosts, join Chiwan Choi and his special guest Pushcart-nominated Sokunthary Svay on this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. Sokunthary Svay was born in a refugee camp in Thailand shortly after her parents fled Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. She is currently poetry editor for Newtown Literary, the only literary journal for the borough of Queens.  In addition to publishing a poetry collection, Apsara in New York (Willow Books, 2017), Svay's first opera, Woman of Letters, set by composer Liliya Ugay, received its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in January 2020 as part of the American Opera Initiative. She teaches English at Queens College, CUNY. Today we're talking ghosts.  #SokuntharySvay #Paranormal #Apsara #LiteraryGhostStories

What does K-Pop, Shinee, and the Ghost of Bumpy Johnson have in common? Find out in this extraordinary episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week's guest is Porochista Khakpour who's book SICK  (HarperCollins) was “a memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery, chronicling the long, arduous discovery of her late-stage Lyme Disease.” Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic, 2007) was a New York Times “Editor's Choice.” #Kpop #Shinee #BumpyJohnson #Jonghyun #Haunted #Ghosts #PorochistaKhakpour

What's it like to levitate? We're going to find out together on this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. In this episode, Chiwan and his "extra special" guest, poet Amanda Choo Quan discuss her extraordinary life. Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian-Jamaican writer and literary organizer. She won the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize—one of the region's most significant for emerging writers. Focusing on race, displacement and her homeland, her work appears in Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, HuffPost, Caribbean Beat, Callaloo, and others.  #Levitation #Chiwan #AmandaChooQuan #paranormal #Trinidad #Jamaican

Who is the Snoring Ghost? Why should you bribe future ghosts with a Starbucks card during "Ghost Month"? And why was Chiwan's parents worried the cat was going to kill him? Welcome to an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. Join Chiwan and writer Ed Lin as we find the answers out together. Ed Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards and is an all-around standup kinda guy. His books include Waylaid, and a mystery trilogy set in New York's Chinatown in the ‘70s: This Is a Bust, Snakes Can't Run and One Red Bastard. Ghost Month, published by Soho Crime, is a Taipei-based mystery, and Incensed and 99 Ways to Die continue that series. David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, his first YA novel, is published by Kaya Press in October 2020. #GhostsMonth #EdLin #TaiwaneseGhosts #Haunted

Can a knife cut through time and space and free a haunted spirit? Ask Melora Walters. Join Chiwan Choi on an all new Are You There, Ghost It's Me, Chiwan. You may know poet, filmmaker, actress Melora Walters from films like Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Dead Poets Society or from the Hulu series PEN15, but today we break through to a different side. #MeloraWalters #Magnolia #HauntedLaurelCanyon

Mat Johnson was just trying to research for a new novel. Then he fell down the UFO Twitter rabbit hole. Was that enough to make him a believer? Join Chiwan Choi and his special guest Mat Johnson, author of the novels Loving Day, Pym, Drop, and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He's got aliens on his mind. #UFO #Paranormal #Sightings #internationalUFO #Pym 

Is The Driskill Hotel really haunted? YES! Should you wait 24 hours before you share your dreams? MAYBE? And if you didn't know about The Hat Thing, you'll find out. Join Chiwan and his guest Tera Patrick and they discuss the supernatural side of living in Italy, starting at haunted hotels and weird superstitions on this all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me Chiwan. #HatOnBed #DriskillHotel #Superstitions #ItalianGhosts #DrugstoreCowboy #HauntedDriskill #myParanormalNetwork #myPN

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, our host sits down to chat with award-winning novelist and Etch-A-Sketch wizard Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and Water & Power. And questions are asked, such as: Why would you live an old Klan House? Um, is that a handprint inside your closet? And who in the world is HANNAH?    #Hannah #Haunted #TarpaulinSky #WhitingAward #PottedMeat #StrangerThanFiction

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, our host sits down to chat with poet and art historian Jessica Lanay, author of the am•phib•ian, winner of the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. The two old friends talk, dreams, Southern and Global Southern cultures, what is haunting her now in Indiana & and the ghost of her son...but did they take the ghosts of the past with them? Find out on this week's episode.  #Haunted #TheGrudge #TravelingGhosts         

In this episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, our host catches up with horror writer extraordinaire Kate Maruyama, who was raised in a small college town in New England and now lives in Los Angeles with her family. Chiwan first met her in 2014 and was knocked out by her debut novel, Harrowgate, of which Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, says, "Strangely moving and movingly strange, Harrowgate is the world's creepiest answer to 'How's the wife and kid?'" Her new book, the novella Family Solstice, is equally frightening and equally moving. #haunted #ghost #Harrowgate

Welcome to the premiere episode of "Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan." Find out how the show came to be and why Chiwan had to have Natashia Deón as his first guest. Natashia Deón is an NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor at UCLA and Antioch University. Her critically acclaimed novel, GRACE, was named Best Book by the New York Times. "What do these ghosts want—and why is literary fiction suddenly so full of them? (See: Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders; White Tears, by Hari Kunzru; Grace, by Natashia Deón; The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead.) It's the past that won't stay past, to paraphrase Faulkner. The ghosts—most of them, at any rate—want to rest, but they need restitution first.”  Her new upcoming "The Perishing" is coming out soon as well. Enjoy this first episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. And make sure to hit the subscribe button! #Ghost #NatashiaDeón #SSADH  

Join author and iconoclast Chiwan Choi as he interviews up and coming horror writers and historians about about their most haunting experiences, paranormal influences and inspirations from around the world.