Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Creationist at the Séance Table: A Young Earther Visits Koons' Spirit Room

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Work continues on the big talking tables book. For the last few months, the wheels have been spinning in the sand of 1853. It really is amaz...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Man Who Knows: Alexander's Luminous Ouiji

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Readers will recognize the "Man Who Knows" byline as a reference to the famous magician Claude Alexander Conlin, better known as j...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

1854: Dickens & the Psychograph

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From Charles Dickens, writing to Rev. James White from the Tavistock House on March 7, 1854: Mrs._________ has gone stark mad—and stark ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

1868: A Planchette Miscellany

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E. Stuart Phelps , writing in the November, 1868 Indiana School Journal : "In the winter of '67-8 the uncanny looking word sprang...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

New & Improved: The Lost Tuttle Psychograph

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A trio of Tuttles--the Hodge, Orlando, and MacNeil specimens. As far as my records show, there are six known surviving Tuttle Psychograp...
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Vermont, 1869: The Blanchard Contrivance

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Working with enthusiastic and knowledgeable collaborators is incredibly rewarding. From the threads Marc and I chase down in tandem , to Pat...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Talking Tables, March 1853: Pack's "Medium Table"

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Marc and I have undergone the same tactic we recently used in mapping out the evolution of spirit trumpet mediums and mediumship, and decid...