Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism. Shannon Taggart, “Inspiration Stump, a ...

Though photographer Shannon Taggart grew up only an hour from Lily Dale, New York, the lakeside hamlet where people congregate to commune with the dead, she didn’t visit until she was 26 years old.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, spiritualism—the belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living—was all the rage. There was no trendier activity than holding a séance ...

Four photographs taken during a seance in the 1930s have been released, showing a ghostly apparition hovering above attendees. The face of a ghost is clearly visible in one of the images, appearing to ...