Guest: Diana Doty — co-host of Homespun Haints
She’s back—and so are the ghosts.
This week, we welcome Diana Doty of Homespun Haints for her long-awaited return to TAC, and things get deliciously weird (again). From haunted mirrors that open into impossible green hallways to the eerie overlap between skepticism, storytelling, and sleep paralysis, we explore what happens when logic meets the paranormal—and what it means to keep laughing in the dark.
In This Episode
• Revisiting Diana’s famous basement haunting and what’s changed since she sold the house.
• Her haunted bathroom mirror portal (yes, really) and why some objects refuse to behave.
• The push-pull between science and spirit—how a Vulcan mathematician dad and a fairy-healer mom made her the perfect paranormal hybrid.
• When storytelling becomes summoning—can talking about ghosts actually attract them?
• A deep dive into sleep paralysis, shadow figures, and the line between dream and visitation.
If you like your ghost stories smart, your skeptics funny, and your haunted objects a little too familiar, this one’s for you. It’s an episode about curiosity, fear, and the fine art of not taking eternity too seriously.
So grab your favorite athletic cup and join us, where The Activity Continues.
Content Warning:
We didn’t find anything we thought deserved a content warning, except that we use colorful language.
This episode was recorded on November 5, 2025 and released on November 27, 2025.
Chapter Markers
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:02 Welcome Diana!
00:05:48 Diana’s First Ghost Experience
00:28:15 Morgan’s Questions
00:35:25 Classroom Anxiety
00:38:11 Becky’s Violin Solo
00:43:33 Growing up Non-Competitive
00:51:57 Diana’s Ridiculously Overpriced Antique
00:58: 47 Are We Living in a Simulation?
Episode links:
Homespun Haints: https://homespunhaints.com/
Diana wrote an article about Sleep Paralysis Demons: https://homespunhaints.com/demonic-sleep-paralysis-demons
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Credits:
Hosted by: Amy Lotsberg and Megan Simmons
Guest: Diana Doty
Production, Artwork, and Editing: Amy Lotsberg at Collected Sounds Media, LLC.
Theme song. “Ghost Story” and segment music by Cannelle https://melissaoliveri.com
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