S2 – 6: Restless

11/06/19 • 45 min

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The child stars of spiritualism were growing up. And facing a whole host of new realities about their world. Were the spirits up to helping their young vessels find love and fight for reform as the storm clouds gathered?

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S2 – 5: Seek and Ye Shall Find

The movement continued to swell. It found friends in high places. But everywhere it went, it found entrenched beliefs threatened by this new source of revelation. Finding harmony around a table was one thing. But when mediums met ministers, the seance became a street fight.

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S2 – 7: Preach the Word

The news was grim. Across the south, slave states were withdrawing from the nation. In the north, some spiritualists saw their chance to take their winnings and withdraw from conflict. But others kept their printing presses running. In their pages, the spirits raised their voices to a military march, singing songs of freedom—and war.

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Unobscured - S2 – 6: Restless

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Welcomed, unobscured a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.

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Summer arrived without a thaw. Elisha and his crew suffered the teeth of ice through June, then through July, and on into the darkening fall. Winter was coming again, though for these lost explorers it had never really left. The men were trapped, stranded and alone in a frozen cove off the northwest coast of Greenland. In his