A Brief History of Real Ghostbusters
Before the proton pack, people worried about ghosts could rely on beans instead
Long before Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson waved high-tech meters to detect ghosts and donned 50-pound proton packs to capture them in the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie, early attempts at “ghost-busting” tended to be much more low-tech operations. Folk tales and superstitions about ghosts go back centuries, so it’s no surprise that ghost-hunting techniques do so as well.
