Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.
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Alternative beliefs like spiritualism seem to experience resurgences in times of crisis. Taggart has spent the past 20 years exploring the oft-misunderstood religion.
Every day, the internet fills up with more and more dead people while our ability to reanimate them grows. The dead are more robust and more vulnerable — and we’re not ready for any of this.
Sometimes the unknown is more appealing than the truth – and it has kept ghost hunters in business for generations.
A look at the spooky side of electromagnetism in our culture.
Many of their extraordinary artworks are now on show in a new exhibition.
The idea of phantoms being comical is as old as ghouls.
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