Steven Spielberg to launch paranormal social-network site? :: News :: Articles

We haven't heard a good ghost story since Nickelodeon retired Are You Afraid of the Dark?, but that might change very soon. Rumor has it that producer Steven Spielberg—who has a bit of extraterrestrial experience under his belt (Casper, Men in Black and War of the Worlds, to name a handful)—is in the midst of developing a social networking site called Ghost Town. The site will be for people to share their paranormal experiences with others who can relate. As one Paste staffer put it, the man who made E.T. is making a site...(dramatic pause)...for people who have encountered E.T.

Spielberg is reportedly a believer, having experienced inexplicable encounters in the past. So will this network, which is also reported to possibly have original video content, be relevatory for believers or just fodder for hoaxes? Will it have user accounts like Facebook, rendering that ever-present profile question mark as an actually legitimate replacement for a photo?

If all these sources are correct, Ghost Town should be up and running in the next few months.