Ghosts in their machines: Thai livestream spooks a new generation

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BANGKOK, April 3 — It is almost midnight, and above a semi-abandoned Bangkok shopping centre, Ghost Radio is on air. Rapid-fire comments ping across the studio’s screens as...

BANGKOK, April 3 — It is almost midnight, and above a semi-abandoned Bangkok shopping centre, Ghost Radio is on air.

“She met a man in a white suit who told her that her time was up, and that she had to go with him,” the first caller recounts, her voice quavering.In the studio, host Watcharapol Fukjaidee listens patiently, gently prying out details. It is now food delivery riders rather than cabbies who frequently encounter the supernatural as they endlessly crisscross Bangkok at all hours, Watcharapol says.

“This isn’t a matter of ‘still believing’ or not,” cultural anthropologist Andrew Alan Johnson, whose book“Ghosts become a way to tell stories that are denied elsewhere,” he said.

 

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