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Speaker 1: I'm Aaron Manky, creator and host of Unobscured, a podcast

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Speaker 1: series that explores some of the darkest, most misunderstood moments

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Speaker 1: in history. Season one was a deep dive into the Sale,

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Speaker 1: in which trials in this season of Unobscured will trace

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Speaker 1: the path of the spiritualists who followed the voice of

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Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson Davis. Over the course of the nineteenth century,

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Speaker 1: spiritualism became a kaleidoscope of novel beliefs, courageous people, and

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Speaker 1: world shaking events. Here's historian Molly McGarry. There were always

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Speaker 1: many spiritualisms, both in the nineteenth century and beyond. So

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Speaker 1: some people came to the science tables seeking answers, wanting

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Speaker 1: deeply to commune with lost loved ones. Others were curious

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Speaker 1: investigators looking to see for themselves with this new technology

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Speaker 1: could materialize. But what I found in what I've been

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Speaker 1: most struck by is that many spiritualists took seriously the

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Speaker 1: possibility of channeling the voices of the dead as a

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Speaker 1: means of both connecting with the past and imagining both

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Speaker 1: worldly and otherworldly futures. New episodes of Unobscured will air

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday's beginning in October two. Listen to Unobscured on

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Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts.