Some places give you stories.

Cassadaga gives you moments.

In the final chapter of our Cassadaga series, I’m joined by Jenny and Armando of 305 Paranormal as we talk about what actually happened when we spent a weekend inside Florida’s most misunderstood spiritual community.

This isn’t history.

This isn’t folklore.

This is experience.

From the unsteady calm of the Cassadaga Hotel… to the emotional weight of the Ann Stevens House… to spirit box sessions, unexplained physical sensations, and deeply personal mediumship readings — this episode explores what it feels like when belief stops being abstract and becomes something human.

Some of what happened was recorded.

Some of it wasn’t.

But every moment left an impact.

Not proof.

Not answers.

Just questions we didn’t have before.

And the quiet realization that some places don’t try to convince you of anything.

They just listen.

🎙 Hosted, written & produced by Joe Turino

🎙 Featuring Jenny and Armando of 305 Paranormal - Follow on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok: @305paranormal

🎵 Original theme music by Modern Mimes — modernmimes.com

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👻 And as always… stay weird, Florida.

Cassadaga isn’t just a strange little Florida town with a paranormal reputation.

It’s two places sharing one name.

There’s the unincorporated town of Cassadaga — where people live, walk their dogs, hang garden flags, and go about ordinary life.

And then there’s The Camp — a private Spiritualist community founded in 1894, governed by rules, ethics, training standards, and a century-old belief system built around one radical idea:

That communication doesn’t end with death.

In Part 2 of our Cassadaga series, we move past folklore and into infrastructure.

We trace the founding of the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association, the camp-meeting model that shaped it, and the philosophical spine of Spiritualism itself — including why certification, accountability, and ethical boundaries matter so much here.

Because inside the Camp, mediumship isn’t entertainment.

It isn’t spectacle.

It isn’t a tourist attraction.

It’s service.

We also unpack the single biggest misconception about Cassadaga:

That the town and the Camp are the same thing.

They aren’t.

They share a name.

They share a map.

But they are governed by very different rules.

From Lily Dale roots and Depression-era survival to New Age misunderstandings, zoning tension, and media caricature, this episode explores why Cassadaga didn’t collapse into novelty… and why it refused to chase belief for attention.

This isn’t an episode about proving anything.

It’s about understanding what Cassadaga actually is…

and why it’s lasted.

🎙 Hosted, written & produced by Joe Turino

🎵 Original theme music by Modern Mimes — modernmimes.com

📸 Photos, show notes & official merch: floweirdapod.com

📲 Follow on Instagram: @floweirdapod

👻 And as always… stay weird, Florida.

Long before Cassadaga became a destination…
before the mediums, the readings, or the reputation…
there was a movement that believed the dead never truly left.

In Part 1 of this three-part series, Greetings from Floweirda traces the rise of modern Spiritualism — a belief system born in 19th-century America that insisted consciousness survives death and communication across the veil is possible.

We explore:
• The birth of Spiritualism in upstate New York
• The Fox Sisters and the phenomenon that sparked a movement
• What Spiritualists actually believed — and what they rejected
• How Spiritualism spread through camp meetings and lecture halls
• The role of grief, war, and loss in shaping belief
• Séances, spirit communication, and the tools used to listen
• The formation of Spiritualist churches and ritual practices

And finally, we meet George P. Colby — a trance medium who claimed a spirit guide instructed him to travel south… to Florida… to land he had never seen, but somehow already knew.

This isn’t a ghost story.
It’s not an investigation.
And it’s not about proving anything.

It’s the history of a belief system that helped thousands of people survive loss — and quietly set the stage for a small Central Florida town that would one day be called The Psychic Capital of the World.

Part 1 lays the foundation.
The place comes next.

🎙 Hosted, written & produced by Joe Turino
🎵 Original theme music by Modern Mimes www.modernmimes.com
📸 Show links, merch and more: www.floweirdapod.com
📲 Follow the show on Instagram: @floweirdapod

And as always… stay weird, Florida!