Happy Halloween! Do you believe in ghosts? Well you aren't alone a lot of people believe that those who have gone on before us occasionally come back to help us on our own journeys. The Victorians Era had a lot of people believing in it, probably because they had people who were able to directly communicate with them. So dive into today's episode to find out what the ghosts were saying.

Shownotes:

• Episode art is an engraving of the Fox Sisters, Margaretta and Catherine are on the left and center respectively, 1852, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
• "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War" by Drew Gilpen Faust
• Audio clip is from Episode 102 of tv show Penny Dreadful created by John Logan
• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
• https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/10/14/understanding-the-1920s-spiritualism-revival/
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/why-did-so-many-victorians-try-to-speak-with-the-dead
• https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/what-we-do/uc-in-the-community/exhibitions-and-collections/southern-spirits/history-of-spiritualism
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XMn095fd0&ab_channel=KazRowe
• https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hayden-maria-b-ca-1852
• https://iapsop.com/spirithistory/spiritualists_petition_to_congress.html
• https://www.weirdhistorian.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-spirit-slate-writing-and-of-course-kindred-phenomena/
• https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61871
• https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/slate-writing
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spirit-trumpets-dead-speak
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/ectoplasm-occultism
• https://www.britannica.com/science/ideomotor-effect
• https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11950/pg11950-images.html
• Table Turning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYamQTDagE
• Telegrams From the Dead (1994), PBS documentary available on Youtube via blackcentury, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk-lJJ3RdgI