Your family’s fascination with ghosts dates back to your great-grandfather, a spiritualist who held séances. Have you had any otherworldly encounters recently?
Nothing happened this summer at the old farmhouse where the séances used to take place. That farmhouse was where I originated the idea for Ghostbusters, reading my father’s American Psychical Research journals. Many years ago, a friend and I went upstairs there and saw three S-shaped spirits following one another across the landing. Energies of once-living humans, come back to intrude! We ran right out of there. [Laughs]
The ‘Death Chill’ in Frozen Empire originates from a haunted object. Do you believe objects really can be ‘possessed’?