Oct 6, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 10 segments
Kelly Lidji crawled out of the fog-drenched woods of Lower Slower Delaware with a notebook in one hand and a deeply questionable relationship with ghosts in the other. She does not believe in writer’s…
I'll read all your stuff." And then we had COVID, dun-da-da-da, and I was trapped in a house looking after my mother, who had Alzheimer's.
And so it was actually convenient for me that COVID happened around the same time that she got very sick because, um, the store that I was working in closed down, uh, for COVID 'cause it was a gift shop in a hospital and it was like, "No, no." Um-
What else was I doing, you know? I, I read the books, I watched the movies, and I started thinking, "Where can I go? Where...
Where can I go where there aren't gonna be any people?" And I laughed to myself and I was like, [laughs] "I'll go out to Maggie's Bridge," 'cause Maggie's Bridge was a g- the, one of the ghost stories that we all passed around in high school, and that my mother had probably passed around in high school, of the thing you do, you know, in the dark at night.
You drive out to Maggie's Bridge, and you stand on the four corners, and you call for her ghost.
And it was, was supposedly, according to what everybody said, this young woman who had, was pregnant and unmarried and had run away from home, w- was, in fact, trying to run away from home to meet up with her baby daddy and run away and start a new life.
I'll read all your stuff." And then we had COVID, dun-da-da-da, and I was trapped in a house looking after my mother, who had Alzheimer's.
And so it was actually convenient for me that COVID happened around the same time that she got very sick because, um, the store that I was working in closed down, uh, for COVID 'cause it was a gift shop in a hospital and it was like, "No, no." Um-
What else was I doing, you know? I, I read the books, I watched the movies, and I started thinking, "Where can I go? Where...
Where can I go where there aren't gonna be any people?" And I laughed to myself and I was like, [laughs] "I'll go out to Maggie's Bridge," 'cause Maggie's Bridge was a g- the, one of the ghost stories that we all passed around in high school, and that my mother had probably passed around in high school, of the thing you do, you know, in the dark at night.
You drive out to Maggie's Bridge, and you stand on the four corners, and you call for her ghost.
And it was, was supposedly, according to what everybody said, this young woman who had, was pregnant and unmarried and had run away from home, w- was, in fact, trying to run away from home to meet up with her baby daddy and run away and start a new life.
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