Researcher and photojournalist, Shannon Taggart, shares stories from her 16 years of photographing Spiritualism for a project called SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm. For more info visit BigSeance.com. 

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In this episode:

• Episode Teaser :00

• Intro 1:40

• Welcome, Shannon Taggart! 2:12

• Shannon’s Bio 3:53

• Her first introduction to Spiritualism 6:22

• Spending time in the analog town known as Lily Dale 9:02

• Shannon describes her photography in this project 13:13

• Playing with photographic accidents and anomaly 15:08

• The séance lighting 17:40

• The journalistic aspect of the project, plus “paradrama”  19:37

• The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen

• The Arthur Findlay College, the Hogwarts of adult Spiritualists 23:47

• Kai Muegge and the search for ectoplasm 25:42

• Skepticism and just letting go 28:25

• ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) 33:30

• Looking back at the archive of spirit photography 37:28

• More about Shannon’s upcoming book, SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm 41:25

• A sneak peek at some of the photos! Plus, hands and faces changing shape! 44:05

• More about Shannon Taggart 52:27

• Spectral Edition with Tim Prasil (Did Louis Rose Break the Chains of Satan?) 55:10

• Outro 1:00:45

 

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