Sarah Austin Jenness

Believed in is such a funny phrase because spirits to me are, of course, around us at all times.

I don't find this scary.

In fact, I find it comforting.

I and the other Moth directors travel the country helping people tell their stories.

And we've stayed in a lot of hotels, a number of which are haunted.

In fact, once in New Orleans with our pop-up porch, I was at a restaurant on Frenchman Street and I was tapped on the shoulder.

Double tapped, actually.

I turned around and no one was there.

Not only was no one there, but there was no door behind me, no entrance or way to exit.

And I told my friend next to me, and she nodded with a smile.

Spirits are everywhere, and I'm into it.

On this episode, in celebration of the spookiest of holidays, Halloween, we've got three stories all about the larger forces at play in the universe.

Plus, I'll talk with another Moth director about some of the supposedly haunted hotels we've stayed at over the years.

First up, a story about Halloween itself.

Ophira Eisenberg told this when she was hosting our main stage in East Hampton, New York.

Here's Ophira live at the Moth.

That was Ophira Eisenberg.

Ophira is a stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of the podcast Parenting is a Joke.

She'll be recording her new comedy special, I Used to Be Nicer, at the Comedy Cellar in New York City on November 9th, produced by Lewis Black's production company.

So I mentioned earlier that while crisscrossing the country as a moth director, I've stayed in some haunted hotels.