#3 - Shannon Taggart, Photographer of Phantoms
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Shannon Taggart photographs ghosts and the mediums who communicate with them. In this episode, she discusses phantoms, photography, and why she's collaborating with original Ghostbuster, Dan Aykroyd. Shannon's forthcoming book, SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm, is currently being crowdfunded on Unbound.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Weiser Books. |
| 0:05.0 | Weiser Books is celebrating 60 years of publishing the very best in occult and esoterica. |
| 0:11.0 | You can check out their extensive and inspiring range of reading material by going to wiser books.com. |
| 0:18.0 | That's W-E-I-S-E-R books.com. |
| 0:25.0 | The world is filled with bewitching people and you might be one too. Welcome to the podcast where art is |
| 0:35.1 | magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. I'm Pam Grossman and |
| 0:41.4 | this is the witch wave. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh inside you can in the night. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, mountain, |
| 1:00.0 | a mountain to me to my feet to my feet to my face a rooted me |
| 1:10.0 | You can make and please Hello and welcome to the witch wave. How are you? It was a new moon in Scorpio the other night, so maybe you're |
| 1:25.0 | it was a new moon in Scorpio the other night so maybe you're feeling a little |
| 1:26.3 | emotional a little contemplative a little shadowy That is perfectly great because that's the ideal mood for today's episode where my guest is spirit photographer |
| 1:41.2 | Shannon Taggart. |
| 1:43.7 | Shannon uses her camera to try and capture images of ghosts |
| 1:48.8 | and other other worldly entities. |
| 1:52.4 | Or at the very least images of the people who attempt to communicate with those spirits. |
| 1:59.7 | We're talking mediums, psychics, clairvoyance. |
| 2:04.7 | And whether or not you believe in life after death, |
| 2:07.9 | Shannon's pictures of seances and apparitions |
| 2:11.7 | are undeniably striking and uncanny. |
| 2:16.0 | And they got me thinking about the wider relationship between technology and the invisible world. |
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