Tag: spiritualism
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Spirits Were All the Rage
There is a fun website called The Haunted Museum with, and here is a fun article from said website about exposing fake spiritualists back at the turn of the century when Spiritism was all the rage. “Is Spiritualism a fraud? Are the spirit-rappings and the spirit-forms of the séance, the prophecies of the palmist and…
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Remembering the Midnight Monster Shows
At Paleofuture, Matt Novak has a good essay on the “spook shows” of the 1940s, 50s, & 60s. We had a couple of these in my home town when I was a kid. Of course, I was always there in the thick of it. Midnight ghost shows (sometimes called “spook,” “voodoo,” or “monster” shows) promised…