The dead speak! Well, they write, actually. In this episode, we analyze the ectoplasmic product of a 200-year-old séance: the paranormal penmanship of a ghost. During our exploration of the afterlife, Dana discovers feminist pirate poltergeists, Connor comes out of magical retirement, Greg summons dead goldfish with his toes, and the gang has an existential crisis while weeding out haunted hoaxes. Join hands and have a seat at the séance circle, because it's about to get ghostly.

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Show Notes:

Ghostly handwriting close-ups: https://tinyurl.com/42pstyhc

The Fox Sisters: https://tinyurl.com/mr2db43v

Spiritualism, Pirates, and Mumler Photos: https://tinyurl.com/3uyhyx94

The Tenets of Spiritualism: https://youtu.be/FxgsSd32oTE

William Robinson’s Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena: https://amzn.to/3inAF5g

More on magician William Robinson: https://tinyurl.com/3bsnpw5y

Chung Ling Soo vs Ching Ling Foo: https://youtu.be/BnFpyEqKjYE

Houdini’s work against Spiritualism: https://tinyurl.com/6r6ebca2

Get your own Spirit Slates: https://amzn.to/3QFdeBr

The Infamous Gambols With The Ghosts Catalog: https://tinyurl.com/55pvs4jb

Modern-Day Seance Photographer Shannon Taggart: https://tinyurl.com/yjynvan6

Timestamps:

0:00 - Karl Pfeiffer is not a serial killer

5:35 - Object History: Antique Spirit Slates

7:37 - Mr. Splitfoot and the Mediums

17:17 - The Fox Sisters Have Beef

20:45 - Progressive Poltergeists

31:00 - Capitalism and Conjuring

40:37 -Magicians Ruin Everything

55:10 - By the way, Connor’s a Magician

1:11:10 - Message from the Great Fishtank in the Sky

1:18:35 - Slate Analysis & Speculation

1:31:51 - The Middle Line on Mediums

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Produced by Connor J Randall

Photography by Karl Pfeiffer

Art by Dustin Williams

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