Episode 195 – On John Keel: Live at the Lily Dale Symposium, with Erik Davis
Weird Studies
Phil Ford and J. F. Martel
4.8 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Spectrevision Radio |
| 0:04.0 | I've got a story to tell you. |
| 0:08.0 | It might sound unbelievable, but the person who experienced it once fought the same, |
| 0:16.0 | until they saw something that changed them forever. |
| 0:20.0 | Here we dive into the paranormal, the strange and the unexplained, |
| 0:25.6 | from personal supernatural encounters to some of the most infamous unsolved mysteries and history, |
| 0:32.6 | all told in an immersive, atmospheric narrative-led style. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's hear these stories and try to figure out together what really happened. |
| 0:44.8 | The world is a very strange place. |
| 0:48.2 | Someone has to record it. |
| 0:50.6 | Because after all, everywhere has a ghost story. |
| 1:26.6 | Archived in collaboration with Spectrevision and J.F. Martel. |
| 1:29.9 | For more episodes or to support the podcast, go to weird is J.F. Martell. If you're a regular listener of the podcast, |
| 2:03.2 | you've likely heard Phil and me talking about, or even speaking at, Shannon Taggarts Lillydale |
| 2:08.8 | Symposium. Shannon is a photographer and an independent scholar. In episode 113, she joined us |
| 2:16.5 | to discuss her marvelous photography book Seance, |
| 2:19.8 | reissued a few years ago in a revised edition by Atelier Books. |
| 2:24.3 | For the past three years, Phil and I have had the honor of recording a live episode |
| 2:28.7 | of the symposium Shannon organizes each summer in Lillydale, |
| 2:32.8 | a community in upstate New York that has been the beating heart of spiritualism since the 19th century. |
| 2:38.0 | The symposium has since been a highlight of our year. |
| 2:42.0 | By all accounts, this year's event was exceptional, with another finely curated lineup of thinkers, |
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