Cassadaga with Jamie Loftus

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Atlas Obscura Podcast is launching a week of spooky-themed stories ahead of Halloween. We begin with Jamie Loftus’ newest podcast about Cassadaga, a small town in central Florida that is one of the last great bastions of a Victorian era religion called Spiritualism. Check out some of Jamie’s work: GHOST CHURCH https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghost-church-by-jamie-loftus/id1619557591 My Year in MENSA -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id1492147103 And check out AO’s podcast on Lily Dale, another contemporary spiritualist community LILY DALE https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-lily-dale-spiritualist-community READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cassadaga

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0:00.0	Jamie Loftus' work takes her in a lot of unusual directions.
0:07.0	Yeah, I just finished my next thing.
0:11.0	It's not a podcast.
0:12.0	I wrote my first book, and it's all about hot dogs.
0:17.0	Hey!
0:18.0	Besides books about hot dogs, Jamie does make podcasts, a fair number of them, actually.
0:24.2	She made one about joining the weird world of Mensa, the high IQ society.
0:31.2	And then there's ACCAST, the one she did about the comic strip Kathy.
0:48.2	Hi, my name is Jamie Loftus, and I have read every single Kathy comic.
0:54.2	And I have some thoughts, Kathy.
0:56.2	But the reason I am talking to Jamie today is because her newest podcast kind of crashed our worlds into each other.
1:03.2	Unusual people, unusual places.
1:06.2	Her newest podcast is all about a small town in central Florida, a town that's one of the last great bastions of a Victorian era religion called spiritualism.
1:17.2	She calls the show Ghost Church.
1:21.2	Ooh, name of the show already getting spicy.
1:25.2	So today, I am talking with Jamie Loftus, and we're heading down to central Florida, to learn about Cassadega, about spiritualism, and about what drew Jamie to this place.
1:38.2	It wasn't my goal going in to say if what they were doing was real or not, because it sort of, that just wasn't the question that I had.
1:47.2	More from Jamie and the Ghost Church after this.
2:02.2	Maybe you could talk about what Cassadega, Florida is.
2:06.2	Cassadega, Florida is an American spiritualist community about a half hour outside of Orlando.
2:13.2	It's existed since the late 19th century.
2:18.2	It's kind of the like many places in central Florida.
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