The WhiteWashed Ghost

In The History of Ghosts, a series on BBC Radio, Kirsty Logan explores the history of ghost lore. In episode 6, “The Whitewashed Ghost” (air date October 26, 2020), the topic is one of which Tiya is deeply familiar — the romanticization of relationships between slave owners and enslaved young women and girls. In the “Extra Interview,” Tiya shares her experiences of stumbling into the world of Ghost Tours in the Southern United States, how the stories we tell, and how we tell them, can reshape the way we experience history as well as the present day, and how these experiences inspired her to write her own ghost story, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts. Listen to Tiya’s in-depth interview: The Haunted South.