stackyFACTSLate 19th-century readers consumed daily newspaper columns detailing conversations with the dead as if they were mundane stock market updates.
Late 19th-century readers consumed daily newspaper columns detailing conversations with the dead as if they were mundane stock market updates. Publications like 'Light' and 'The Medium and Daybreak' operated with straight-faced journalistic rigor, employing reporters to sit in on darkened séances. They published meticulous, unironic transcripts of floating tables and ectoplasm sightings right next to the local weather forecasts.
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