S2 – 5: Seek and Ye Shall Find

Unobscured

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The movement continued to swell. It found friends in high places. But everywhere it went, it found entrenched beliefs threatened by this new source of revelation. Finding harmony around a table was one thing. But when mediums met ministers, the seance became a street fight.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.
0:09.8	Daniel was sitting pretty.
0:12.0	He was in South Manchester, Connecticut, in the well-appointed home of Ward, Jaini.
0:16.8	All the little comforts around them were the benefits of the family's growing fortune
0:20.3	from silk manufacturing.
0:21.8	They patented a new machine for rolling silk just five years before, and now it was the
0:27.8	money that was rolling right into their pockets.
0:31.4	In August of 1852, the comforts Ward, Jaini afforded because of the new machines would
0:36.3	become set dressings for the turning point in Daniel Hume's career as a medium.
0:42.8	Like other movers and shakers who invited their friends to private seances in their parlors,
0:47.8	Ward brought a small group to his home to sit with Daniel.
0:50.9	The Scottish team didn't let them down.
0:54.3	They started around a typical seance table, with a dust floating in the dim light that
0:58.6	trickled in through the windows.
1:00.6	The spirits started with Daniel's body.
1:03.2	He fell into a shuttering trance.
1:06.0	One of the men who published his account later in the London Quarterly Review said that
1:10.0	a dramatic, powerful knocking followed, pounding the floor, and then the walls.
1:16.7	The table also started to spin, then to rise and fall.
1:21.2	A violent creaking like the cables of a ship and a storm rose up in the room, and voices
1:26.8	started to call out like the were shouting over a high wind.
1:30.3	The table rose, then tipped, and finally capsized, crashing to the floor.
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