Interview and Photos by Jordan Edwards

Each week, Kelsi Davies treats her 2 million YouTube subscribers to another adventure inside of a haunted property or a paranormal experience. But there's another side to her. For the last two years, she's recorded music.

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Why the Ghosts in "The Haunting of Bly Manor" Make No Sense

Bly Manor's messy, lawless ghost stories interrogate the ways that love can haunt us.

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The first rule of living at Bly Manor is: Don't talk about ghosts. The second rule is: Don't talk to the ghosts. The third rule is: You might actually be a ghost.

Netflix's latest horror series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, trades in a different type of terror than its predecessor, The Haunting of Hill House. Low on jump scares and high on existential torture, Bly Manor asks you to imagine the afterlife as a realm of human husks who may or may not know that they're dead.

As the series unfolds, we learn that being a ghost means you face the trauma of remembering your own death. Imagine that: After you witness your own dead body, your consciousness lingers but you can't be seen (not until you "figure out a way," as one of Bly's ghosts says), not touched nor heard. Then you're "tucked away" in a cycle of memories, reliving each moment and painfully realizing how flawed and fleeting your connections with your loved ones were.

As a ghost trapped at Bly, you slowly lose your face as those who loved and remembered you leave you behind. And when all others forget you, you forget yourself.

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