Everyone's getting geared up for Halloween, but there's another reason to anticipate October: queer ghosts.

You heard me, I said queer ghosts. Not only that but queer ghost hunters.

Starting October, the Queer Ghost Hunters series will premiere on its YouTube channel. According to the trailer on their channel, the show's crew consists of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and gender-fluid members, and their primary goal is to track down similarly LGBTQ ghosts who were forgotten in the sands of history. The Queer Ghost Hunters pointed out that assuming ghosts are heterosexual is odd, considering how many popular haunting grounds like insane asylums and prisons were historically known to hold homosexuals.

The existence of ghosts may still be up for discussion, and people are welcome to roll their eyes and go on with their lives, but to me, the trailer was rather striking. The acceptance of LGBTQ people is remarkably new once you stop to think about it, and historically people who were gay, lesbian, or genderfluid were locked up or kept secret for fear of shaming their families. The fact that so many popular ghost hunters target places like insane asylums but don't really consider the possibility of gay ghosts is odd, given the historical context of these locations, and just hammers in just how much LGBTQ people in the past have been forgotten despite their suffering.

Ghosts may or may not be real, but I think that what the Queer Ghost Hunters are doing is remarkable, simply because their research will reveal some of the hundreds of past LGBTQ people who were forgotten in the sands of time.