Cosmic Valley Girl investigates how media and pop culture portrays the unportrayable — namely the esoteric, the mystical, the miraculous — and how these collective attempts at “capturing” the unknown shape the way we experience them ourselves.
As we wander through pop culture departure points in each episode, we’ll identify the (sometimes) obscured mystical references sprinkled throughout our favorite books, movies, and TV shows.
For our first season, we’ll explore the concept of ghosts and hauntings and how both are portrayed throughout pop culture and art.
CASPER, haunted by youth and the promise of what might have been
In this episode, we explore the 1995 Spielberg-produced Blockbuster classic, Casper, and its portrayal of ghosts, grief, and girlhood.
00:00 Introduction and Cursed Objects
01:01 Wedding Dress Stories
02:37 Random Internet Commentary
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