We are back! Meet psychic medium, Birdie, and paranormal investigator, Robert, who talk about the rise of the word "medium" in the spiritualist movement in the 1840s, the significance of the Fox sisters and their role in the current paranormal movement as well as what being a medium is really like and how modern day paranormal media has continued to shape our perceptions for better . . . or worse!
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Spirit Diaries is a true-story podcast and paranormal investigation series that deep-dives the paranormal and unexplained. Every episode, co-hosts Birdie and Robert, a psychic medium and a paranormal investigator, discuss a new Fortean topic. Hear brand-new, never heard before personal stories and rabbit-hole into your favorite paranormal phenomena, haunted locations, and lore on Spirit Diaries.
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Ghosts (US) | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11379026
Spiritualism Defined | Melton, J. Gordon, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Vol. 2 (5th ed.). US: Gale Group. p. 1463. ISBN 0810394898.
Spirit Diaries | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21622464
Spirit Diaries Season 1 | https://tinyurl.com/spiritdiairesS1
The Fox Sisters | Tyson, Philip John; Jones, Dai; Elcock, Jonathan (9 September 2011). Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates. John Wiley & Sons. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-4443-9623-2.
Fox Sisters Portrait | Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002710596
Origins of Spiritualism | https://amzn.to/3kEswu3
Ghost (1990) | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099653
Cora Scott | https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/ghosts-in-the-machines-the-devices-and-defiant-mediums-that-spoke-for-the-spirits/
Cora Scott Image | www.assumption.edu/whw/Hatch/CoraLVHatch.jpg
Society for Psychical Research | spr.ac.uk
Paranormal State | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0785036
Music/Sound Effects | https://share.epidemicsound.com/jul3t6
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