🔮 EPISODE 158: SEANCES ARE TERRIFYING 🔮

About this episode

The episode explores the terrifying and flirtatious nature of séances, discussing their history and representation in horror films.

Candles are lit. Boundaries are ignored. Consent is… actively debated with the afterlife. This week, a séance goes horribly, flirtatiously wrong as we explore horror in real life: 👻 The history of séance grifters 🎩 Harry Houdini's war on Spiritualism 🏛️ Mary Todd Lincoln's White House séances and grief as survival 🦶 The Fox Sisters and the birth of modern spiritual scams ...and horror in the Movies: 🎥 THIRTEEN GHOSTS (1960) – gimmicks, goggles, and goofy chills 🎥 THE QUIET ONES (2014) – messy experiments and unrealized potential And of course, we ask the only question that matters: Who's Coming to the Séance? Listen wherever you get podcasts. 💀 Leave a review. Tell a friend. 🛍️ Support us at frigay13.com/support

Topics covered

• séances
• horror
• Spiritualism
• Harry Houdini
• Mary Todd Lincoln
• Fox Sisters
• film analysis

Keywords

• horror in real life
• modern spiritual scams
• gimmicks
• experiments

Mentioned in this episode

Products: THIRTEEN GHOSTS (1960), THE QUIET ONES (2014)

Books & works: The Fox Sisters, THIRTEEN GHOSTS, THE QUIET ONES

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