Ghost hunting seeks to explore, negotiate, and reshape memory in search of catharsis. North American ghost stories and investigations are concerned with revisionist history. Within their interpretations, those who tell ghost stories take agency over the past, focusing on those neglected by history or reenacting traumas of the past. Within the empty space of ambiguity, interpretation explores, reshapes, and constructs memory. The construction of these narratives and the telling of ghost stories demonstrate how we face or fail to face the past. If ghost stories express our deepest fears and desires, American ghost stories paint a portrait of an American mind that is itself haunted by memory. Ghosts are the embodiment of collective anxieties, desires, and the unspeakable.