Strange Tales from the Seance Room
Historically, séance rooms were not simply places of spiritual reflection and revelation, but worlds of astonishment and fear. From levitating mediums to ghost marriages, to ancient goddesses and lucrative gemstone mines, accessed only through the spirit world, séance rooms have played host to the most wonderful and strange phenomena.
In this light-hearted and haunting talk, Dr Kate Cherrell dives into the curious archives of spiritualist history, unveiling strange tales that were previously lost to time. Taking a journey from hilarious claims to horrifying crimes, the séance room is revealed as a space where the best and worst in humanity have thrived.
BIO: Dr Kate Cherrell is a writer, speaker and broadcaster specialising in Victorian Spiritualism and paranormal history. She is the author of Begotten (2025), Buried England (2026) and The Sensuality of Séance (TBC), and writes commercially about paranormal history for various media outlets. As a paranormal historian, she has co-hosted the television programmes Haunted Homecoming and Unexplained: Caught on Camera and has provided historical expertise for The Yorkshire Exorcist, Paranormal, and Weird Britain. She is co-founder of Not of this World festival, director of The Bats’ Ball and co-founder of the Lincolnshire Folklore Society. She lives for good wine, ghosts, and graves
Curated & Hosted by:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
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This is a 5 part series of lectures
