Capturing Spiritualism Through Photography with Shannon Taggart – The Big Seance Podcast: My Paranormal World #89

  Researcher and photojournalist, Shannon Taggart, shares stories from her 16 years of photographing Spiritualism for a project called SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm. Check out Shannon's work as you listen – SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm   Get to this episode in iTunes! Direct Download Link Pssst… Want to leave voice feedback? Use the SpeakPipe Link! In this episode: Episode Teaser :00 Intro 1:40 Welcome, Shannon Taggart! 2:12 Shannon’s Bio 3:53 Her first introduction to Spiritualism 6:22 Spending time in the analog town known as Lily Dale 9:02 Shannon describes her photography in this project 13:13 Playing with photographic accidents and anomaly 15:08 The séance lighting 17:40 The journalistic aspect of the project, plus “paradrama”  19:37 The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen The Arthur Findlay College, the Hogwarts of adult Spiritualists 23:47 Kai Muegge and the search for ectoplasm 25:42 Skepticism and just letting go 28:25 ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) 33:30 Looking back at the archive of spirit photography 37:28 More about Shannon’s upcoming book, SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm 41:25 A sneak peek at some of the photos! Plus, hands and faces changing shape! 44:05 More about Shannon Taggart […]