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S04E16 - The Houdini Seance and Arthur Ford, Spiritualist

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today we're discussing the strange story of The Houdini Seance and Arthur Ford the Spiritualist.  

  The last Houdini Seance (1936) - Audio + Story
  Bess Houdini 
  Arthur Ford - Spiritualist
  Arthur Ford - Obituary
  The Houdini Code
  The Bishop James Pike
  Was Pike Seance Hoax?
The Skeptics Dictionary: Arthur Ford

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It's a creature known as the science show about monsters. I'm Blake Smith.

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And I'm Karen Stolznor. Hey there, Monster Talkers. I'm Blake Smith. And I'm Karen Stoltener.

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Hey there, Monster Talkers. I'm running a little bit late this week because the episode

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ended up having several inserts and edits that I forgot that I would have to do.

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So my time to write a lengthy intro ran off without me.

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Anyway, I think this episode will speak for itself and then some.

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