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How grief tech is reimagining Victorian spiritualism

Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to directly contact the deceased.

The Conversation

Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle

David Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply illusion

The Guardian - UK

"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

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Houdini’s reappearing act: David Haig’s new play lays bare the magician’s dispute with Conan Doyle

An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’s drama Magic shows, also threw them into conflict

The Guardian - UK

What Mummy Movies Get So Wrong About That Very Real Revenge Plot

The Mummy, on big screen and in oral history is a legend of revenge and retribution that is barely true, but still has a long afterlife.

Inverse

Coach not convinced Grant is better than Storm great

While lauding the contribution of his captain Harry Grant, coach Craig Bellamy isn't convinced he's a better hooker than Melbourne club legend Cameron Smith.

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6.4W/kg at 16: How Harry Hudson went from pocket-money climber to world champion and Lidl-Trek prodigy in just two years

Cycling Weekly profiles Britain's first male junior road race world champion – a teenager making history in his own quietly formidable way

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Magician made his wife vow to contact him in the afterlife. She followed his wishes for 10 years after he died on Halloween night

Some people still try to contact him to this day.

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Grant strikes gold as Melbourne storm to classic win

In a possible NRL grand final preview, Storm skipper Harry Grant scored a stunning golden-point try to end Penrith's nine-game winning streak.

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Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts

A dive into the unparalleled British singer-songwriter's treasure trove of overshadowed tracks

Louder

40 Of The Most Captivating Historical Pictures, As Shared By This Instagram Account

The Instagram account 'History Everyday' shares pictures from earlier epochs, allowing us to take a glimpse into how our predecessors looked and what they were up to when they were just trying to get by.

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40 Interesting Historical Photos You Wouldn’t Find In History Textbooks

To further kindle our love for vintage photography and history, we compiled a list of old pictures, collected by the Untold Tales Of The Past Instagram account. The post 40 Interesting Historical Photos You Wouldn’t Find In History Textbooks first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A frazzled dachshund; a rebellious goatherd; standing up to your family; a dystopian vision of marriage and more

The Guardian - UK

Guess who’s back? Eminem resurrects Slim Shady on new single ‘Houdini’

Rapper also shares video featuring cameos from Pete Davidson, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg, while his track references Megan Thee Stallion

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online

People online share topics that, once they started reading about, they couldn't stop. The post 33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online first appeared on Bored Panda.

Chicago Sun-Times

More magic shows and venues materialize in Chicago for fans of the art of illusion

Performers are mystifying audiences in an elegant downtown basement, a former Rogers Park vaudeville house and even a Lincoln Square gelato shop.

The Independent UK

Six Feet Under: The troubled history of magicians burying themselves alive

As British illusionist Dynamo prepares to bury himself under five tonnes of dirt in the name of magic, Annabel Nugent digs deep into the dark history of similar, sometimes fatal, stunts

Evening Standard

Dua Lipa - Houdini review: escapist pop gold

Dua Lipa is officially in her analog synth era - and the imperfection suits her

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"It had a very spiritually sexual vibe": Red Hot Chili Pepper's John Frusciante once claimed to have an encounter with a horny ghost whilst recording Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a haunted mansion

When RHCP recorded their hit album Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a spooky Hollywood mansion, guitarist John Frusciante experienced paranormal activity of a very welcoming kind

The Walrus

Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death

Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for

The Conversation

Like Prince Harry a quarter of British people have consulted a psychic – here’s the science on why

Extracts from Prince Harry’s recently published memoir, Spare, reveal that he used a person with supposed psychic abilities to contact his deceased mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was tragically killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 when Harry was 12 years old.

Daily Mirror

Debbie McGee says strangers hugged her in street after husband Paul Daniels' death

Debbie McGee says when Paul Daniels died strangers hugged her in the street and walked off without saying a word and it meant the world

Manchester Evening News

A vanishing kangaroo, a controversial preacher and ‘Bingo Jesus’... the strange history of Hulme Hippodrome

The future of the iconic buildings uncertain. Can it be saved from the wrecking ball? And will it ever be restored to its former glory?

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: The strange history of Hulme Hippodrome

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Dr Lynn inspired Harry Houdini to take up magic, but he's largely unknown

Dr Lynn would dismember a man every night before putting him back together, and audiences loved it. But the illusionist, who started his career in Australia, is largely forgotten by history.

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