9: Waiting for the Spirit in the Cape
In the final episode of Ghost Church (for now), Jamie befriends a Cassadaga medium, reads a manifesto, and looks backwards and ahead to wher...
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Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
In this limited series, Jamie Loftus investigates and interrogates American spiritualism, a century-old tradition of communing with the dead that takes place in camps full of mediums across...
Episodes
10 episodes8: The Boys Are Fighting (Over Crotch Goo and Ghosts): Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini
This week, Jamie takes a look at the second wave of spiritualism in the United States through American Spiritualism's most famous schism --...
7: The Fool's Golden Rule (Espiritismo and Spiritual Churches)
This week, Jamie goes to a ghost museum, high fives a Jigsaw doll, and takes a look at two religious movements that pulled from American Spi...
6: The Legend of Seneca the Spirit Guide (or: Colonizer, Please)
This week, Jamie heads to the only spiritualist library in the American south -- open two hours a week -- to try and trace the legend of Cas...
5: Apples, The Manipulator, and The Curse of Spiritualism
This week, Jamie visits a legendary Cassadaga medium and traces the story of spiritualism's Fox sisters to its end -- where the sisters aban...
4: Four Roads to Cassadaga
This week, Jamie passes the mic to four women of Cassadaga to tell their stories about how they came to American spiritualism -- from being...
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. Elsewher...
2: No Proof is Necessary, No Proof is Sufficient
This week, Jamie returns to Cassadaga for a Gala Day with one Reverend Doctor and one Reverend Doctor / Former Dojo Owner, then attends her...
1: Not a Cult
American Spiritualism is a frequently invoked, rarely understood religion that hinges on speaking with spirit through mediums. In our first...
Introducing: Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
Jamie Loftus investigates American spiritualism, a tradition of communing with the dead that takes place in camps full of mediums across the...