Sharon A. Hill

prestige, and it's also hospitality.

This article is called Paranormal Tourism, Market Study of a Novel and Interactive Approach to Space Activation and Monetization by James Horan, Sharon A. Hill, Everett D. Haynes, and Ursula A. Bielski.

And then the other source that I pulled from quite a bit, mostly from the introduction, is Haunted Heritage, the Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past.

And this is a book published in 2015 by Michelle Hanks.

Later in the article, it suggests that people are so interested in the paranormal right now that having a haunted house could be a helpful marketing point should you ever decide that you want to sell your home.

But what about that notion of the search for meaning, which is something we talk a lot about on this show? Sharon Hill, who wrote the book Scientifical Americans, the Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers, says that Generation Z may be looking for meaning in new places.

And here's a quote from Sharon that appears in that article.

She says, if the modern world they live in isn't providing food for the soul, if capitalism is a system that drains us of personal enlightenment, it is not hard to figure out that younger people will search elsewhere for that and find the idea of an alternative world.

I do not think they're vampires.

Since writer Sharon A. Hill was unable to find any documentation of black-eyed child encounters, concluding that the tales are passed on as friend-of-a-friend ghost stories.

Hill considers the legend to resemble typical spooky folklore stories such as The Phantom Black Dog, where the subject is not supernatural and there may never have been an actual original encounter.

snoops rates tales of black eye children as a legend and cites an inquest steer article that advised readers to file black eye children under the same heading as bigfoot

Excuse me.

Yeah, so this other, this science writer, her name's Sharon Hill, she was unable to find any documentation of black-eyed children encounters, concluding that the tales are passed on as a friend of a friend, ghost stories around the campfire.

She compares the legend to the phantom black dog, a persistent folklore figure that feels real to every person who reports it, but has never left physical evidence.

So I don't know.