
Dan Aykroyd still believes in ghosts in ‘Hotel Paranormal’
LOS ANGELES, July 11 (UPI) -- Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd is back in the paranormal realm with the new Travel Channel series Hotel Paranormal. Aykroyd narrates true stories of people who have reported encounters with spirits at hotels. Aykroyd created the 1984 movie Ghostbusters, but spirits ran in his family for generations before. His great grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a member of the Lily Dale Assembly, which still practices psychic mediumship. Advertisement "My great-grandfather was a part of this open, tolerant society based upon the belief that the consciousness of a person survives after death," Aykroyd told UPI in a recent phone interview. "I grew up with this belief, stronger than my Catholic belief." Dan Aykroyd grew up reading magazines like The Journal of the Society for Psychica...