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The Ghosts We Carry

Why the Supernatural Endures — and What Our Ghost Stories Reveal · By Sharon Virts

Richmond · WTVR · CBS 6October 16, 20269:00am ESTAiring Soon

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The Ghosts We Carry — airing October 16, 2026 on Scripps.

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A conversation about why the supernatural has fascinated people in every century and every culture — and why that fascination returns each fall as the nights grow longer and All Hallows’ Eve approaches. With ghost walks underway across Baltimore, Sharon explores what our ghost stories reveal about grief, memory, and the human need to believe that something of us remains.

She also shares the research behind her novels — the hours spent in centuries-old cemeteries, walking the ground her characters walked and reading the stones that hold their stories. The conversation closes with The Grays of Truth, her award-winning murder mystery drawn from true events in Reconstruction-era Baltimore, where an Edgar Allan Poe thread winds from West Point into the heart of the case.

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As the nights grow longer and All Hallows’ Eve approaches, ghost walks are underway all across Baltimore — and Sharon joins us to explore why the supernatural has fascinated us in every century and every culture, what our ghost stories reveal about grief and memory, and how the hours she spends in centuries-old cemeteries help her bring her historical characters to life.

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A gripping true-crime novel of murder, madness, and the ghosts of the past — Sharon Virts’s standalone tale of a Civil War-era trial that haunted a family for generations.

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