Vanessa Hudgens kisses a ghost, we betPhoto: David Livingston (Getty Images)
The universe is a vast and complicated place full of mysteries and wonders big and small. Some of these are important, informing us as a species of both the highs and lows we can reach as infinitesimal beings floating through the cosmos. Others don’t matter, like whether Vanessa Hudgens, former High School Musical star, talks to ghosts.
And yet how broods the mind!
This existential question was prompted by a recent interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, in which Clarkson — in utterly enthusiastic fangirl mode — seamlessly transitions from a lengthy conversation about Hudgens’ newfound love of golf and asks her, “So, it is true? that you have a new passion in life? Are you really obsessed with ghosts?” Answer: “It’s not really a new passion.”
What the hell yeah: Tell us about the ghosts, Vanessa. (It’s at least better than hearing the actress’ public health take, which she was yelled at in 2020 after declaring that it was “inevitable” that people would die from COVID-19, which, yeah, but …)
Now, however, the star speaks of seeing inexplicable phenomena for Vanessa Hudgens throughout her life, like the time she saw a duck-on-a-string toy appear to move on its own as a child. Or their recent use of a ‘ghost box’, ie a radio that scans frequencies for ghost talkers, which has been invaluable in the past for proving the existence of people with too much disposable income.
Unfortunately, the one ghost Hudgens was able to summon with the device wasn’t a Clarkson-level superfan and refused to even ask a single question about tick, tick… boom! to deliver. Hudgens describes a late-night trip to the graveyard — and we’d honestly dispute her claim that ghosts would like to hang out there, but who shall we say, really — and revealed that, even after the “ghost” “replied” to “her” with “Name” when asked if it had anything else to say to her, it just said “No!” (C’mon Ghost Sam: Don’t you have burning powerless questions to consider?)
Unfortunately, neither Hudgens nor Clarkson addresses the one obvious problem in Hudgens’ story – namely, that ghosts are not real and that death is an infinite black abyss from which no human intention will ever escape. Still, kudos to Clarkson for putting her off this golf talk because it was way more boring than hearing about the ghosts.
[via Consequence]