ectoplasm

Let's have a séance, wear big hats, and flirt with horse-ladies! Happy Halloween!!!

We made it to Episode 300! This "Ghostbusters II" review has it all: Ash learns about New Coke; Gene learns he might not like young Bill Murray; Big D teaches us all about "Tears in Heaven;" and a plot summary is so ridiculous we can't stop laughing.

In our second discussion of the Ghostbusters franchise, the Shat Crew examines birthday packages, debates the quality of Vigo's painting, contrasts movie montages, dives deeper into the new Ghostbusters logo, weighs when it's OK to clean your host's apartment, discovers someone's been throwing out her partner's belongings and outlines the appropriate use of children in comedies.

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For more than 60 years in the late 19th century and early 20th century, a New Religious Movement known as Spiritualism swept across the Western World. Everyone from famous authors to housewives took part in engaging with spirits and Mediumship via Séances and other means. These days Spiritualism is mostly taken as a period of time in which every participant was either delusional or being conned by frauds. Yet there is much more to Spiritualism and Spirit Mediumship than what most people are familiar with. Going through it with us is the one and only Dr. Jack Hunter.

We’re back! And boy are we JACKED for the Super Bowl! Just kidding Tenney didn’t even know it was this weekend lol. This week we give an update on the frozen car sheet and the Houdini-ing that did NOT happen, the new wild Netflix doc The Tinder Swindler, Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot deathbed theories, Ectoplasm and sketchy séance tricks, the deranged 1994 film Clifford, how Joel McHale probably won’t ever speak to us, and much more! Lose yourself…

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In this extra spooky episode, Jim and Derek are joined by Joel and Spooky Dave to discuss what ectoplasm even is. It's probably delicious. Then, we try to figure out why there are monsters under the bed and in the closet trying to scare me so bad.

Panelists: Jim, Derek, Joel, David

Lisa Morton tells the fascinating history of seances in her new book, Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. Discussion included necromancy, spook shows, Spiritualism, fraudulent mediums, D.D. Home, Helen Duncan, Florence Cook, William Crookes, the American Civil War, spirit rapping, EVP, and of course, plenty of ectoplasm! PLUS, Patrick didn’t miss the opportunity to ask a Halloween expert about how the pandemic could change our favorite holiday! Visit BigSeance.com/170 for more info.

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In this episode:

Episode Teaser :00

Intro :53

Are you subscribed to the show? Also, don’t miss updates on my upcoming book! Sign up for the Big Seance Newsletter! 1:37

Lisa Morton’s Bio 1:27

Book description for Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances 4:33

Necromancy and calling forth the dead could be seriously gross! 5:50

Was sacrifice involved in necromancy? 8:41

Spook shows, phantasmagoria light shows, and Pepper’s Ghost! 9:33

So many debunked mediums from the days of Spiritualism! Were any of them real? 14:40

D.D. Home 16:40

Helen Duncan, Harry Price, and ectoplasm 18:05

Why don’t we have more mediums producing the ectoplasm and physical phenomena in seances today? 20:17

Patrick reminisces about the spirit rapping he experienced several years ago during some Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) sessions. 23:02

Sometimes we hear what we want to hear in EVP. A story from the son of William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist 25:04

Lisa shares a spirit box experience from the Stanley Hotel 28:55

Patrick’s “Ouija Board” EVP using the spirit box 30:56

The fascinating story of William Crookes, Florence Cook, and the spirit of “Katie King” 32:25

An erotic element of the seance 38:50

Emma Hardinge, brave Spiritualist soldiers, mediums saving the lives of civil war soldiers, former slaves having visions of the upcoming civil war, and the story of Raymond 40:09

The modern seance and why we have an obsession with it 45:50

Since Lisa Morton is an expert on Halloween, Patrick asks about the concern of how the pandemic could affect our favorite holiday! It turns out there’s hope, since after 9/11, Halloween emerged better than ever! 48:30

Lisa’s final thoughts and her upcoming books! 53:47

A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 55:30

Outro 57:25

Easter egg/Blooper 59:05

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Amurol, a company most will scratch their heads thinking "Who?" but also most will know and have fond memories of the many products they put out during the latter half of the 1900's and into the 2000's. They're the subsidiary company of Wrigley gum and behind the wide variety of novelty bubblegum brands such as Bubbletape, Ouch! Bubblegum, Big League Chew, Bubble Jug, Slimer Bubblegum and hundreds more types of bubblegum.

Enter the weird and wild world of Amurol Confections, the novelty bubblegum company that started out in the 1940's from almost at the opposite end of the candy business but slowly turned into thee company for all the crazy bubblegum and candy brands out there and learn all about what happened to them from beginning to end in this action packed episode.

We also look at the 10 List of the Weirdest bubblegum flavors ever, test to see if Bubbletape is actually 6 feet long and take an in depth look into the Ghostbusters and Nickelodeon line of bubblegum made by Amurol.

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Photographer Shannon Taggart talks to host Suzanne Clores about her bizarre photographic journey capturing physical mediums around the world and hunting for the elusive substance of ectoplasm.

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