Calling the Spirits with Lisa Morton – Big Seance #170

  Lisa Morton tells the fascinating history of seances in her new book, Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. Discussion included necromancy, spook shows, Spiritualism, fraudulent mediums, D.D. Home, Helen Duncan, Florence Cook, William Crookes, the American Civil War, spirit rapping, EVP, and of course, plenty of ectoplasm! PLUS, Patrick didn’t miss the opportunity to ask a Halloween expert about how the pandemic could change our favorite holiday!   Other Listening Options Direct Download Link   In this episode: Episode Teaser :00 Intro :53 Are you subscribed to the show? Also, don’t miss updates on my upcoming book! Sign up for the Big Seance Newsletter! 1:37 Lisa Morton’s Bio 1:27 Book description for Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances 4:33 Necromancy and calling forth the dead could be seriously gross! 5:50 Was sacrifice involved in necromancy? 8:41 Spook shows, phantasmagoria light shows, and Pepper’s Ghost! 9:33 So many debunked mediums from the days of Spiritualism! Were any of them real? 14:40 D.D. Home 16:40 Helen Duncan, Harry Price, and ectoplasm 18:05 Why don’t we have more mediums producing the ectoplasm and physical phenomena in seances today? 20:17 Patrick reminisces about the spirit rapping he experienced several years ago during some Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) sessions. 23:02 Sometimes we hear what we want to […]