Aug 26, 2026 · 27 min · 13 segments
While awaiting the arrival of his soon-to-be stepfather and stepsister from New York City, Luke meets a distant relative - one who’s been dead for nearly 150 years. *The Ghost of Jessica Majors* is…
[dog barking]
[groans] What's the point of a graveyard fence? Ghosts can just walk through it anyway.
[laughs] Well, not kill me, but is it a jinx to say that in a cemetery? But I had to talk to you.
I want you.
[cries] Sorry if I hurt your feelings last time, telling you mom's getting married again, or I don't know.
Maybe I told you hoping you'd get upset enough to maybe show up.
All the spirit world stuff I'm studying says sometimes ghosts show up if they get disturbed, so I just want to see you.
I miss you.
[bird cawing] Hello?
Shh, they hear.
Go, go, go, go.
Is someone there? [tense music]
Shh.
Ugh, now I'm covered in mud.
I've never noticed this grave before.
Jessica Majors, 1864 to 1875.
Majors, like me, and she was 11, like me.
Boo.
Ah!
[laughs] Did we scare you, Lukie?
Yes.
[dog barking]
[groans] What's the point of a graveyard fence? Ghosts can just walk through it anyway.
[laughs] Well, not kill me, but is it a jinx to say that in a cemetery? But I had to talk to you.
I want you.
[cries] Sorry if I hurt your feelings last time, telling you mom's getting married again, or I don't know.
Maybe I told you hoping you'd get upset enough to maybe show up.
All the spirit world stuff I'm studying says sometimes ghosts show up if they get disturbed, so I just want to see you.
I miss you.
[bird cawing] Hello?
Shh, they hear.
Go, go, go, go.
Is someone there? [tense music]
Shh.
Ugh, now I'm covered in mud.
I've never noticed this grave before.
Jessica Majors, 1864 to 1875.
Majors, like me, and she was 11, like me.
Boo.
Ah!
[laughs] Did we scare you, Lukie?
Yes.
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