Episode 215: Mind Over Matter (ad-free) (Patreon)

Some of the most bizarre celebrities of the past all fall under one umbrella, and you won’t need an Ouija board to guess how their careers ended.

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Further Reading

1. “A Magician Among the Spirits by Houdini.” Project Gutenberg. October 2, 2021. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66451/66451-h/66451-h.htm#toclink_79
2. Clark, Bret. ““The Restoration of Nature and Biogeography: An Introduction to Alfred Russel Wallace's ‘Epping Forest’ in 1878” Organization & Environment. Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2007). p 223. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26162073
3. “Did Cheiro Know?” Los Angeles Times. November 1, 1936. Pp 9 & 26. https://www.newspapers.com/image/380609044/?terms=cheiro&match=1
4. “Eusapia Palladino.” PSI Encyclopedia. Accessed April 4, 2022. https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/eusapia-palladino
5. Exploring the Unknown. (The Readers Digest Association Ltd., 1999). P. 333 & 334.
6. “Henry Slade.” Historical Albion Michigan. Accessed April 4, 2022. http://www.albionmich.com/history/histor_notebook/931017.shtml
7. “Henry Slade.” PSI Encyclopedia. Accessed April 4, 2022. https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/henry-slade
8. Morton, Lisa. Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. (Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020). P. 208.
9. Natale, Simone. Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture. (The Pennsylvania State University, 2016). Pp. 9-11.
10. “Notes on Henry Slade, Medium.” Blavatsky Foundation. Accessed April 5, 2022. http://blavatskyfoundation.org/NotesonHenrySlade.pdf
11. “Slade, Dr. Henry.” Occult World. July 7, 2017. https://occult-world.com/slade-dr-henry
12. “Slate Writing Slade Dies in Sanatarium.” The Anaconda Standard. September 16, 1905. P. 9. https://www.newspapers.com/image/354365231/?terms=henry%20slade&match=1
13. “Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena.” Project Gutenberg. April 19, 2020. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61871/61871-h/61871-h.htm
14. “The Haunted Museum: Magicians and Debunkers.” American Hauntings. Accessed April 4, 2022. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/debunkers
15. “The Haunted Museum: Psychic Wonder or Blatant Fraud?” American Hauntings. Accessed April 4, 2022. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/wonder
16. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of Palmistry for All, by Cheiro.” Project Gutenberg. January 29, 2007. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20480/20480-h/20480-h.htm
17. "Trial of a Trickster." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. October 18, 1876. P. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/571058651/?terms=%22TRIAL%20OF%20A%20TRICKSTER%22&match=1
18. Walkowits, Judith R. “Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late Victorian London.” Representations. No. 22 (Spring, 1988), p. 5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928407
19. “William Stainton Moses.” PSI Encyclopedia. Accessed April 4, 2022. https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/william-stainton-moses
20. Willin, Marvyn J. “Paramusicologyy: An Investigation of Music and Paranormal Phenomena.” E-Thesis—Music Department, University of Sheffield. February 1999. P. 88, https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14778/1/299596.pdf