Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus

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3: The Tables Are Tipping

This week, Jamie goes to a table tipping class — a Spiritualist tradition that uses tables to connect people with their dead. Elsewhere in the past, the Fox sisters go on tour, where the skeptics put increasing pressure on the teenagers to meet their hype.   Further Reading: Talking to the Dead, Barbara Weisberg Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances by Lisa Morton The Road to Seneca Falls by Judith Wellman Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Introducing: Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus

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  1: Not a Cult

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  2: No Proof is Necessary, No Proof is Sufficient

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  4: Four Roads to Cassadaga

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  5: Apples, The Manipulator, and The Curse of Spiritualism

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  6: The Legend of Seneca the Spirit Guide (or: Colonizer, Please)

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  7: The Fool's Golden Rule (Espiritismo and Spiritual Churches)

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  8: The Boys Are Fighting (Over Crotch Goo and Ghosts): Arthur Conan Doyle …

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  9: Waiting for the Spirit in the Cape