A Brief History of Real Ghostbusters

Long before Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson waved high-tech meters to detect ghosts and donned 50-pound proton packs to capture them in the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie, early attempts at "ghost-busting" tended to be much more low-tech operations. Folk tales and superstitions about ghosts go back centuries, so it's no surprise that ghost-hunting techniques do so as well.

As the new reboot of Ghostbusters arrives in U.S.