The space is owned by the considerably more staid Down Town Association - a member-owned social club which deems itself an "island of quiet civility" - but is frequently rented out for private events. Seeking a seance on a deadline, a friend suggested I head to the Shanghai Mermaid gathering on 60 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, for a seance-cum-Victorian bacchanal. "You can come back with nightmares, you can come back with a presence that can follow you out of the seance." "We do believe in possession, and we do believe in negative energy," she said. "Everyone that I've had has been successful in contacting the people we're trying to contact," she said. Though she is known primarily as a television psychic, Harris said she has conducted seances in the past. Some warn of serious consequences while toying with spirits, either via Ouija boards or formal seances.
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Cemetery tours, haunted hayrides and Hocus Pocus marathons proliferate across the country in a celebration of the paranormal and otherworldly.īut is it all just for fun, or is it really possible make contact with the dead who have messages for the living? For professional mediums, seers and psychics operating in the $2 billion psychic services industry, there's nothing fun or funny about the other side. The other side: Every year around Halloween, the supernatural gets renewed interest by thrill seekers and the general public looking to get into the spirit of the holiday. "My first experience with connecting to somebody on the other side was my uncle, Kane, and it was at age 14," Cleo, a self-described "voodoo priestess" who now goes by the name Y. Invoking the power of tarot cards, Cleo regularly tapped into the spiritual realm to offer her clients enlightened answers. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the television seer doled out relationship advice and even paternity tests. Like most millennials, I first learned about the "other side" from Miss Cleo.
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