Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian Mourning and Spiritualism.” The Victorian era, which stretched from ...

The story of a Victorian treasure hunting spiritualist.

We hope you can join us on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 10:30 a.m. for History Café. This month we will be discussing a slightly spooky subject as we look at the customs and rituals of Victorian ...

In the Victorian era spiritualism – the belief that that the dead could make contact with the living – was increasingly popular. ‘Table-rapping’ was the knocking sound supposedly made by ...