Spiritualism - How Victorians Monetized the Afterlife
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Happy Halloween! This episode dives into the rise and fall of Spiritualism, the 19th-century movement that convinced millions they could talk to the dead. From the infamous Fox Sisters and their “spirit rapping” toes, to Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House séances, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle trading Sherlock Holmes’s logic for ghost stories, this was the moment when science, grief, and the supernatural collided.
We’ll explore how grief shaped an entire generation, how women mediums found power in a world that denied them almost everything else, and how a single séance set off a cultural obsession that still haunts us today, from ghost-hunting shows to TikTok psychics.
We've got everything!
⚰️ Séances as 19th-century social events
🕯️ The Fox Sisters and their infamous confession
📸 Spirit photography and the birth of “proof”
🏚️ Sarah Winchester and the house that grief built
🎩 Houdini vs. the frauds of the afterlife
join me for this Halloween spooktacular!