Playing a Spirit A girl who played a spirit for a famous Spiritualist medium tells All.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 30, 2018
in Crime , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives
and tagged Amanda M. Cowan , mediums , Playing a Spirit , seance room fraud , Spiritualism , Spiritualist confederate , Spiritualist confessions , spiritualist exposure , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist mediums , The Girl Who Played a Spirit , Victorian spiritualism
The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House The Spiritualist Eddy Brothers and their family see a phantom carriage sent as an omen of a death in the family.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 15, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged death coach , Eddy brothers , Henry Steel Olcott , Horatio Eddy , materialization mediums , mediums , People from the Other World , phantom coach , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House , Vermont , William Eddy
Dr. Slade, the Medium and the strange stories whispered about him.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 12, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , Dr. Slade , Dr. Slade the Medium , homosexuals , shamans , slate writing , spirit messages , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , the Medium , transsexuals , Victorian spiritualism
The Spirits Giveth and the Spirits Taketh Away I’ve previously written about an apparent religious materialization of cash in “The Bridgnorth Shilling.” Here is a similar, if rather less ethereal story about apporting money from Dr. Silas J. Chesebrough, New York State Spiritualist enthusiast, featuring his protégé, young Joe Caffrey
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 22, 2014
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Joseph A. Caffray , Joseph A. Caffrey , money apports , pennies from heaven , Silas J. Chesebrough , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Spirits Giveth and the Spirits Taketh Away
A St Patrick’s Day tale of a séance-room shamrock apport and comic turn by a stage-Irishman spirit guide.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 17, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Dr Thomas D'Aute Hooper , ghostly Irishman , Indian spirit guides , Irish spirit guide , mediums , shamrocks , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , St Patrick's Day , stage Irishman
Sex in the Seance Room and the Summerland Sex in Spiritualism has always been a hot button issue. This interview with a spirit named “Zaza” gives a peep into the boudoirs of Summerland, which seems much like 19th-century Paris.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 10, 2013
in Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged afterlife , Eusapia Palladino , Florence Cook , seance , sex , Sex in the Seance Room and the Summerland , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , Summerland
