TheNightling
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I wasn't sure if I should put this under events or TV.
Sony Pictures is planning some sort of "Ectober" event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Real Ghostbusters animated series, which premiered Saturday morning, September 13th, in 1986 and ran until 1991 (long for a kid's show in those days). And then got a spin-off of Extreme Ghostbusters six years later.
https://ghostbustersnews.com/2026/05/07/sony-pictures-confirms-the-real-ghostbusters-40th-anniversary-celebration-for-this-fall/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRrb8FleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF0R1JoZm9JMlk4YXpoYXZBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgzY6Zb81IX9UWYqPL1dGiF8wxk3qKQY7CztWJQ9Oi1fqi9Omq9KsST0roYi_aem_xswHWjJGEG5N9zWD6hrJlw
I remember watching The Real Ghostbusters animated series long before ever seeing the first movie. I got obsessed with the second movie when it came out.
It was the animated series "The Real Ghostbusters" that roped me in. They had to put the "Real" Ghostbusters in the title because a pre-existing property (with a gorilla for some reason) had the title Ghostbusters and was making its own new animated series. So the "Real" Ghostbusters was so you knew this was the team from the movie franchise.
It was from watching The Real Ghostbusters that lead to me announcing to a room full of school kids that I wanted to either be a writer or a parapsychologist or both. I still recall being thirteen or so and a classroom full of kids all confused about what a parapsychologist is.
Technically I succeeded. I'm not famous or rich but I've done what I love. There's a textbook for sale on Amazon where I wrote an entire chapter explaining how the Bronte sisters influenced the writing on the Gothic Soap Opera Dark Shadows. I used to do the news and reviews for Nosferatu TV and I was a news contributor for Syzygy Network's weekly news show. I also wrote the introduction to the Saberhagen Vampire Tales and once won an award for poetry, (not including having a poem read out loud over the PA system when I was in Kindergarten. That poem is now long lost but I remember I called it "Isabelle the Cat." and I had named it after a plush Halloween toy and made the poem about an unwanted stray finding a family).
In 2008 I took creative writing with the Stratford Career Institute and Astrology / Parapsychology also with The Stratford Career Institute (SCI). I've done EVP analysis and still occasionally advise people (for free) on matters of the paranormal and (for those who will listen) teach how to spot hoaxes.
Things like Alvin Schwartz's In a Dark, Dark Room, and The Real Ghostbusters pointed me toward my spooky inclinations that have been with me my whole life and helped to shape who I am.
People say that you are just a compilation of things you liked in the media you consume or the things you liked about the people you interact with but consider this. There's a reason you liked those traits. They were waiting inside you all along. The media just helped you find those parts of yourself.
And for me The Real Ghostbusters helped do that. It was not just a cartoon. It was a comforting voice telling me "You don't need to be mundane. You can make a career out of the strange things you love."
Sony Pictures is planning some sort of "Ectober" event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Real Ghostbusters animated series, which premiered Saturday morning, September 13th, in 1986 and ran until 1991 (long for a kid's show in those days). And then got a spin-off of Extreme Ghostbusters six years later.
https://ghostbustersnews.com/2026/05/07/sony-pictures-confirms-the-real-ghostbusters-40th-anniversary-celebration-for-this-fall/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRrb8FleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF0R1JoZm9JMlk4YXpoYXZBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgzY6Zb81IX9UWYqPL1dGiF8wxk3qKQY7CztWJQ9Oi1fqi9Omq9KsST0roYi_aem_xswHWjJGEG5N9zWD6hrJlw
I remember watching The Real Ghostbusters animated series long before ever seeing the first movie. I got obsessed with the second movie when it came out.
It was the animated series "The Real Ghostbusters" that roped me in. They had to put the "Real" Ghostbusters in the title because a pre-existing property (with a gorilla for some reason) had the title Ghostbusters and was making its own new animated series. So the "Real" Ghostbusters was so you knew this was the team from the movie franchise.
It was from watching The Real Ghostbusters that lead to me announcing to a room full of school kids that I wanted to either be a writer or a parapsychologist or both. I still recall being thirteen or so and a classroom full of kids all confused about what a parapsychologist is.
Technically I succeeded. I'm not famous or rich but I've done what I love. There's a textbook for sale on Amazon where I wrote an entire chapter explaining how the Bronte sisters influenced the writing on the Gothic Soap Opera Dark Shadows. I used to do the news and reviews for Nosferatu TV and I was a news contributor for Syzygy Network's weekly news show. I also wrote the introduction to the Saberhagen Vampire Tales and once won an award for poetry, (not including having a poem read out loud over the PA system when I was in Kindergarten. That poem is now long lost but I remember I called it "Isabelle the Cat." and I had named it after a plush Halloween toy and made the poem about an unwanted stray finding a family).
In 2008 I took creative writing with the Stratford Career Institute and Astrology / Parapsychology also with The Stratford Career Institute (SCI). I've done EVP analysis and still occasionally advise people (for free) on matters of the paranormal and (for those who will listen) teach how to spot hoaxes.
Things like Alvin Schwartz's In a Dark, Dark Room, and The Real Ghostbusters pointed me toward my spooky inclinations that have been with me my whole life and helped to shape who I am.
People say that you are just a compilation of things you liked in the media you consume or the things you liked about the people you interact with but consider this. There's a reason you liked those traits. They were waiting inside you all along. The media just helped you find those parts of yourself.
And for me The Real Ghostbusters helped do that. It was not just a cartoon. It was a comforting voice telling me "You don't need to be mundane. You can make a career out of the strange things you love."
