Hi Ghost Church Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)About the show: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show from Jamie Loftus that takes a closer look at the internet’s main characters – one part

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Introducing: Better Offline

Feb 21st, 2024 1m 57s

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 interrogat

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Introducing: Hood Politics with Prop S3

Jan 10th, 2024 5m 20s

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

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Introducing: We the Unhoused

Dec 6th, 2023 2m 56s

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

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Introducing: Internet Hate Machine

Nov 10th, 2022 2m 30s

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 se

9: Waiting for the Spirit in the Cape

Jun 27th, 2022 51m 4s

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.Fi

8: The Boys Are Fighting (Over Crotch Goo and Ghosts): Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini

Jun 20th, 2022 1h 13m

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 Min

7: The Fool's Golden Rule (Espiritismo and Spiritual Churches)

Jun 13th, 2022 1h 2m

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 espiri

6: The Legend of Seneca the Spirit Guide (or: Colonizer, Please)

1 Jun 6th, 2022 54m 48s

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

5: Apples, The Manipulator, and The Curse of Spiritualism

1 May 30th, 2022 1h 6m

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.

4: Four Roads to Cassadaga

May 16th, 2022 51m 23s

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.

3: The Tables Are Tipping

1 May 9th, 2022 1h 6m

This week, Jamie goes to a table tipping class — a Spiritualist tradition that uses tables to connect people with their dead. Elsewhere in the past, the Fox sisters go on tour, where the skeptics put increasing pressure on the teenagers to meet

2: No Proof is Necessary, No Proof is Sufficient

1 May 2nd, 2022 1h 2m

This week, Jamie returns to Cassadaga for a Gala Day with one Reverend Doctor and one Reverend Doctor / Former Dojo Owner, then attends her first spiritualist church service, complete with a message from the spirit after hymns. Back in 1848, sp

1: Not a Cult

1 Apr 25th, 2022 49m 24s

American Spiritualism is a frequently invoked, rarely understood religion that hinges on speaking with spirit through mediums. In our first episode, Jamie Loftus puts your little baby brain at rest -- it's not a cult. But what is it?See omnystu

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Introducing: Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus

Apr 15th, 2022 3m 5s

Jamie Loftus investigates American spiritualism, a tradition of communing with the dead that takes place in camps full of mediums across the country.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.