If you have not checked out a Mary Roach book yet, I strongly encourage it. People eventually started to catch on to this and the lady seance leaders had to get creative on where to hide the ectoplasm until it was needed….like in their panties. The ectoplasm, upon close examination, was usually cheesecloth draped around the spiritual channeler.
Masters of the seance had a brief period where they played around with low lighting, mysterious smokey incense, and ectoplasm from the beyond. A few other people tried this same experiment with dogs, cattle, goats, and mice. There have been a few people, sometimes even doctors, who try to weigh the human body as it dies to see if there is a quantifiable loss – the soul leaving the body. Apparently, all functions continue as normal in the afterlife. The Egyptians had everything from daily life packed away with them for the afterlife, including single-seater toilets. Let me share a few little tidbits with you. Roach just does not hold back in her investigative journalism, asking all those pesky, pointed, icky questions and telling us readers truly what she found out and how she found it out. In Spook, Roach takes us through the history of human attempts to quantify, contact, and plan for the afterlife. I don’t care what subject it will be on I know I will be one of the first at the library to pick it up. What is it about Mary Roach books? I have read all four out there ( Bonk, Stiff, Packing for Mars, and Spook) and fervently look forward to the next one.
It has been reformatted and published here with permission from Dark Cargo. Note: My review of Spook was originally published on Dark Cargo on April 10, 2012.
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