43: Lily Dale with Shannon Taggert

Ghost Bunny

Bridget Marquardt & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode Bridget is joined by author and photographer Shannon Taggert. Shannon has spent almost two decades studying spirituality and paranormal phenomenon. Bridget and Shannon discuss her time studying at Findlay College and Lily Dale, which evolved into Shannon hosting an annual symposium at Lily Dale each summer. The two discuss a wide array of topics, from spirit photography, ectoplasm, death calls, and even Gef the Talking Mongoose. Plus, Shannon shares her recent experience with a Spoon Bending Party that had her blown away!

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1:19.4	Okay. Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast.
1:22.6	I'm your host, Bridget Markort with a brand new episode for you guys.
1:24.9	My guest today is Shannon Taggart.
1:28.7	Shannon is a photo-based artist and independent researcher known for exploring how photography can navigate boundaries between the scene and the unseen. Her varied creative
1:33.7	projects address the intersection of art, anthropology, and the supernatural. Her work has been exhibited
1:39.2	internationally and featured by CNN Style, Book Forum, New York Times, T-style magazine, Financial Times,
1:46.7	Lens Culture, Le Monde, Washington Post, and the Paris Review, among others.
1:51.5	Her first book, Seance, offers a series of haunting photographs exploring spiritualist practices
1:57.9	in the U.S., England, and Europe.
1:59.7	Supported with a commentary on her experiences, a forward by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters
2:04.6	and fourth generation spiritualists, Seance examines spiritualism's relationship with human
2:09.7	celebrity and its connection with technology, and it concludes with the debate over ectoplasm
2:15.0	and how spiritualism can move forward in the 21st century.
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