ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the populism of the haunted heritage and its implications for the growing field of ghost tourism throughout the world. Ultimately, the practices of ghost tourism produce a haunted heritage that is grounded in a populist critique. It traces the various understandings of ghosts, their attending touristic practices, and their epistemological consequences. Ghost tourism's populism manifests in two interrelated forms: a critique of the organization of public history and a destabilization of the expert authority of historians and other heritage officials. In England, ghosts figure prominently in the process of heritagization. They provide a means of critiquing epistemic heritage authority and reconstituting the content of the past. The chapter suspects the recursivity of ghosts lends itself to various forms of culturally specific critiques. It certainly demands a rethinking of what constitutes historical knowledge. The populist engagement with the past and its contribution to the commercialization of ghosts found in English ghost tourism provides a vital.
