We’re willing to bet that most of what people know about séances comes from movies like Drag Me to Hell and Paranormal Activity, but séances rarely (if ever) ...

The darkest days of the year were seen by many Victorians as a time when the dead would have a particularly strong access to the living. Soon a battle between mediums and scientists would begin.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was no trendier activity than holding a séance led by a medium, who would serve as a conduit between the living and the dead.

Writers in London in the 1890s: 10 Steps to Hosting Your Own Victorian Seance

I’d like to introduce you to Annie De Montford. She was a Mesmerist. Not a Lady Mesmerist. A Mesmerist. She was also called a ‘psychological star’ and an ‘electro-biologist’, and occasionally a Hypnotist. Her bill matter claimed that her 'mind governs the world' and she is the 'wonder of the...

In the early 1860s, an American photographer named William Mumler developed some self-portraits, and was shocked to see a ghostly female figure ...

We’re willing to bet that most of what people know about séances comes from movies like Drag Me to Hell and Paranormal Activity, but séances rarely (if ever) ...

Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins.

[HISTORICAL] Spiritualism has strong roots in Upstate New York, from Lily Dale—the oldest surviving Spiritualist society in the United States—to the Fox Sisters, who played an important role in the spiritualism movement of the 1800s. This weekend—Friday, October 23 —will conclude the Victorian Séance Series at the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village.

In which we’re visited by the Grim Reaper, the original vampire baddie Vlad the Impaler and the Hindu shapeshifter rakshasa. Plus, we play with a Ouija board and learn how to make Abramelin Oil.