Ep. 606 - Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

There are two main Spiritualist Camps in America dating back to the Victorian Era: Lilydale in New York and Cassadaga in Florida. We've visited Cassadaga several times, which is known as the Psychic Capital of the World. Almost as often as St. Augustine, and like St. Augustine, Cassadaga oozes spiritual energy. While some people might think that Spiritualism was just a craze during the Victorian Era, it is a real religion that still exists today and is recognized by the military as a standard religion. There are around 13 million practicing Spiritualists in the world today. Many of them still live in Cassadaga and there seems to be many spirits in this small town, not only of the Spiritualists who have already transitioned, but perhaps of the many spirits called to the town. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp. The Moment in Oddity features the Lung Tree.

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(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0:00.0	So you spectacular people, welcome to this 606 episode of the History Ghostbump Podcast, Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, IAN.
0:08.1	And this is Kelly.
0:09.2	Kelly on this episode, we're taking the listeners along with us to our little side trip that we took to the Casadega spiritualist camp right here in Florida.
0:19.1	We did a night tour there. We got some evidence while we were at it.
0:23.1	We're going to share with you the history and some hauntings going on there and a little bit of the history about spiritualism as well.
0:31.2	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:36.3	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:40.7	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida, it's
0:46.9	the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:51.9	And now, this moment in Audity. The moment in Audity.
0:55.0	The moment in Audity was suggested by Chelsea Flowers.
1:07.0	In April of 2009, a 28-year-old man named Artium Sidorkin had been experiencing chest
1:14.3	paint and was coughing up blood. He subsequently went to a hospital in Ezevsk, Russia. The hospital
1:21.3	performed x-rays of the man and determined that there was a tumor in his chest area. A biopsy was
1:27.0	ordered, and while being performed, it is said that the surgeon discovered not a tumor in his chest area. A biopsy was ordered, and while being performed,
1:28.9	it is said that the surgeon discovered, not a tumor, but a small fir tree sapling.
1:34.9	Wait, what? Uh-huh. It was believed that the plant's needles had been pricking the man's lungs,
1:40.8	causing the blood and pain. According to a newspaper article, the doctor stated that the branch was too large to have been
1:47.6	inhaled or swallowed, but must have grown from an inhaled seed.
1:52.9	A plant ecology researcher from Toronto shared his thoughts on the discovery stating,
1:58.0	It looks like a hoax to me.
2:00.2	It's dark inside a long and most seeds need
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