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Want to contact the dead? Head to Winnipeg

Leah and Falen are joined by producer Eunice Kim to look the history of spiritualism in Winnipeg.

Leah and Falen are joined by producer Eunice Kim to look the history of spiritualism in Winnipeg

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Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis in the movie, Ghostbusters.
Actors Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis in the movie, Ghostbusters. Ackroyd, who grew up in Ottawa, is part of a famed spiritualist family going back to his great-grandfather, Samuel Augustus Aykroyd. (Columbia Pictures)

In honor of spooky season, Falen and Leah are joined by producer Eunice Kim to learn why Winnipeg became known around the world for communicating with the dead. Together they'll light some candles and find out why, in the mid-1900s, holding seances became sought after and then how that popularity inspired one of the most famous supernatural comedy films of all time — Ghostbusters.

Listen to the episode here, and get transcripts of our series here.

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