The Haunted Universe

The invisible dust that possesses our computers, a signal from space that bleeds into our televisions, a compass that always tells the truth, and the ways our universe can haunt us ✨🕯️

https://www.patreon.com/sarahdavisbaker

Recommended reading:

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art edited by Robert Cozzolino

Additional sources:

PBS Spacetime’s entire channel (god bless you)

https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime

Sabine Hossenfelder’s entire channel (you’re the best & if you ever see this, I apologize for my woo-woo summations of physics)

https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

The “Haunt” project by French, Christopher C.; Haque, Usman; Bunton-Stasyshyn, Rosie; and Davis, Robert. 2009

One thousand thanks to my NEW and MAGICAL research assistant Hannah Skibbe. Please direct your thoughts toward sending Hannah a psychic thank-you!!!

Thank you to John Wander for helping me with After Effects to create particle text for the title sequence, and Dust’s text for Mary’s computer!

Footage:

Kirlian images courtesy of https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate

Ted Serios footage from Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers - Ep. 6 - Fairies, Phantoms and Fantastic Photographs

Séance from Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

MRI vision reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsH7RK1S2E

Kinect Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oAu0fsuVZ4&t=750s

Timelapse of the ATLAS big wheel from CERN

Additional footage from the Prelinger Archives, the Internet Archive, NASA, Storyblocks, Artgrid, and Getty Images

Shoutout to the Griffith Observatory for their cloud chamber

Music from Epidemic sound unless noted with an asterisk

Music, in order: My Sleeping Giant (DEX 1200), Stay Here (Cody High), The Moon (Thistle), Something Beyond Self (Thistle), The Sound of Glass (Thistle), Let Me Rest For Awhile (Audible Dread), *Blurry Glowing Lights (Clement Panchout), Nectar (Aerian), End of a Dream (Hanna Lindgren), Sight of the Unseen (Jay Taylor), Tvivel (Hanna Ekstrom), Rest (Elin Piel), Fever Dream (Eva Hummingbird)

Thistle’s music: https://tinythistle.bandcamp.com/music

I am actively seeking new music to use in my vids – if you’re an indie musician who fits the vibe of my videos & are OK licensing your music to someone with a dumbly small budget, send me an email! My full name, at gmail.

Guys I'm cringing so hard at how awkward I am at the bonus séance, please forgive my inability to make eye contact or inhabit a human body. It's my first day on Earth.