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 the country. Who is drawn to these camps, how did the religion come together, and why are the tarot card readers and the seance-havers fighting? Ghost Church is a look at grief, religion, and loneliness, with on-site reporting and interviews with everyone from spiritualist psychics to Protestant pastors to a very lonely carnival employee.
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2024-02-21 | Hi, Ghost Church Fans! Take a listen to the trailer from the newest show from Cool Zone Media - Better Offline About the show: Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the ... |
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2024-01-10 | Hi, Ghost Church Fans! Take a listen to the trailer from the new season of Hood Politics with Prop. About the show: The political landscape can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. If you've survived junior high, lived in an urban city or understa... |
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2023-12-06 | Hi, Ghost Church fans! Here's a preview of a new podcast, We the Unhoused — Created by Theo Henderson with the goal of uplifting voiceless citizens. The show provides an intimate look at the unhoused experience that began while Theo was living on the s... |
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2022-11-10 | Hi, Ghost Church fans! Here's a preview of a new podcast, Internet Hate Machine. Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence women, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, ra... |
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2022-06-27 | In the final episode of Ghost Church (for now), Jamie befriends a Cassadaga medium, reads a manifesto, and looks backwards and ahead to where American spiritualism goes from here. Thank you for listening, and abolish the Supreme Court bitch. Find Uncl... |
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2022-06-20 |
8: 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 -- believer Arthur Conan Doyle versus skeptic Harry Houdini over the mediumship (and yes, ectoplasm) of Mina Crando... |
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2022-06-13 |
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 Spiritualism, took what they needed, and left the rest. Dr. Carlos Camacho stops by for a chat about espiritismo, a... |
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2022-06-06 |
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 Cassadaga's founding to its root, as land taken from indigenous Americans. Writer Olivia Woodward stops by to discu... |
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2022-05-30 | This week, Jamie visits a legendary Cassadaga medium and traces the story of spiritualism's Fox sisters to its end -- where the sisters abandoned the religion that had defined their lives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2022-05-16 | This week, Jamie passes the mic to four women of Cassadaga to tell their stories about how they came to American spiritualism -- from being raised by NASA scientists to a tragic loss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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