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A séance is an attempt to communicate with the spirits of the dead, usually involving a gathering of individuals who sit down around a table and led by a medium. Séances were popular forms of entertainment around the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century, during which time many people became interested in spiritualism and the occult. Usually the medium would attempt to contact the spirits while asking everyone else in the room to concentrate on summoning and welcoming them. Real séances did not require a dark room, just a pleasantly peaceful atmosphere. The darkened room came into vogue when people started trying to produce materialized "phenomena" — most of which you could buy from theatrical supply companies. The lights may flicker or the room suddenly grow colder, and the medium would either become possessed by the spirit that was summoned or merely speak with it. Objects might start being thrown about the room to show that the ghost is present and active. Once for Yes, Twice for No is another common element (and it's Truth in Television). After that there's usually a lot of dramatic screaming and fainting. Sometimes the séance is revealed to be a hoax created by a Phony Psychic, although it still may turn out to be Real After All... If it's a murder mystery, expect someone to take advantage of the lights being out to kill their target. "But we were all holding hands!" |
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One occurs in the second episode of Penny Dreadful. Somewhat surprisingly, given that it's being put on at a party, the medium turns out to be quite genuine, although she still ends up terrified when it turns serious. Expecting to simply be indulging a few silly Victorian socialites, she's rather overshadowed when Vanessa channels three or four different entities, not all human, none of whom are very happy with the man sitting across from her, and who let that fact be known without regard for the language or content usually expected at a society party. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: In Chapter 3, a séance is held by the students in an effort to determine who killed the latest victim. It goes awry when the spirit medium gets killed too. | |
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In chapter 4 of The Exorcist (novel), a Jeane Dixon Expy at Chris' party reveals a little-known story (sans names) about a phony medium who had studied to be a Jesuit priest. A French empress at a séance felt what she thought was a spirit child's hand touching her, and someone turned on the lights to reveal the medium "with his naked foot on the empress' arm." It's Truth in Television: the empress was Eugénie Montijonote she is the Empress with the sick child in The Song of Bernadette, and the medium was D.D. Home. This story was buried for over a century; the fact that Blatty found it is testimony to his intense research. | |
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In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, after Bill and Ted get killed, they find somebody they know holding a séance and try to get a message through. They're mistaken for evil spirits, and dismissed. | |
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Subverted in the Angel episode "Hell Bound" when the Wolfram & Hart psychic is called in to clear their Haunted Headquarters. She turns out to be a pretty blonde griping about missing her Pilates class, who says she's going to "mutter a few calming words" to set the mood. When Fred asks if they should be Holding Hands she replies, "Only if you're lonely. Now, zip it and let me do my sweet funky." Then it gets creepy when she starts bleeding from the nose and her head explodes. | |
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Carry On Constable: Constable Constable conducts an impromptu séance during Inspector Mills's inspection, to uncover where he and Constable Potter met before. | |
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Truth Seekers: Gus recruits Janey Feathers to conduct one to contact the spirits haunting Astrid. The seance immediately goes wrong, with unnatural darkness, shaking, and flying objects. Janey, realizing the entities involved are far more dangerous than she expected, ends the seance and kicks them out. | |
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On a "Treehouse of Horror" opening of The Simpsons, the titular family is conducting a séance, with Ned Flanders present, summoning the spirit of the late Maude Flanders. | |
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As is evident from the title, the main character of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Phony Psychic Myra Savage, holds regular seances in an upstairs room in her house in which she pretends to communicate with dead or otherwise absent people. To boost her profile as a medium, she makes her husband kidnap the daughter of an industrialist, then offers them her services to locate the child; the father thinks she is a con artist, but the mother is more receptive and agrees to attend one of her seances, at which Myra pretends to be so overwhelmed that she faints. | |
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Necronauts: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is part of a séance in London when the summoner is possessed by the Sleepers in the Void and rips his own face off. This is a sign to Arthur that he needs to help his friend Houdini. | |
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In Watersong, Marcy convinces Harper and Alex to try holding a séance to ask the ghosts of the sirens' victims to tell them Gemma's location. She defies a lot of the normal tropes by holding it outside and during daytime, calling the others ignorant when they ask if it shouldn't be done around a table at night. The séance does manage to call some spirits which light a candle with blue flame and move some rocks, but they are unhelpful in determining Gemma's location. | |
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On Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko and Heffer attend a séance where the fortune-teller summons Mortimer Khan (Genghis' lesser-known brother), who recognizes Heffer as the reincarnation of someone who betrayed him through incompetence and haunts him as revenge. | |
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In Disney's Robin Hood (1973), Robin, disguised as a Romani fortune-teller, stages a fake séance as a distraction while he and Little John rob Prince John. | |
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In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "The Ghost in Suite 613", the cast investigates a purportedly haunted room in the Tipton and attempt to contact the ghost of a woman who died in there. It takes a spooky turn when the cast minus Zack disappears during the séance and Zack gets scared out of his mind, however it's later revealed to be nothing but a prank on him in revenge for all the pranks he's pulled. | |
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"Proper" séance techniques are discussed in the "How to Contact the Dead" chapter of The Action Hero's Handbook. | |
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The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill: Two seances are held on two different nights in the movie, both of which utilize a Ouija Board. | |
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Subverted in the opening of Amityville 3-D, where the séance turns out to be a laughable hoax. | |
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The Changeling: (1980) has a particularly spooky séance scene where the medium attempts to contact the ghost in the house, is put in a trance and draws the ghost's answers to her questions on paper. It is absolutely terrifying. | |
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The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones has a scene where the Ghost tries to get through to her sisters while they're messing around with a Ouija board. She has trouble making the board say what she wants, partly because one of the living participants is surreptitiously steering it to say something else. | |
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In A Haunting in Venice, Joyce Reynolds is a medium who is invited by Rowena to speak to her deceased daughter through a séance, with Poirot being brought in to see if he can discredit her, not realizing that Reynolds, Ariadne and Vitale are collaborating to fool him. While Poirot early into the séance realize there is trickery involved, Reynolds soon begins channeling Alicia, accusing someone in the room of murdering her. | |
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There is one in The X-Files episode "Closure" in which Mulder finds out what happened to his sister Samantha. In the middle of searching for a missing little girl (not Samantha), Mulder encounters a self-professed psychic, who claims that both girls were taken by "walk-ins" (read: killed) to save them from a horrible fate on Earth. This psychic begins to have visions of Samantha, as Mulder is tracing her whereabouts after her abduction, and holds the séance to help Mulder find resolution with what happened to her. The séance is successful, leading to a touching scene between Mulder and Samantha, who is revealed to be dead. However, being Mulder and Scully, the scene could not escape the show's habitual deadpan snark: | |
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Disney's Haunted Mansion ride includes a spooky séance presided by the ghostly medium Madame Leota. In Haunted Mansion and the Hatbox Ghost, a Fan Verse based on the attraction, it is quite natural to have Madame Leota and her Séance Room having a role. | |
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Call of Cthulhu. Campaign The Fungi from Yuggoth. The investigators can have Paul LeMond perform a séance to bring forth the spirit of Nophru-Ka. Adventure Pursuit to Kadath. In the Back Story, the PCs participate in a séance that releases a spirit of great evil. |
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The Lost Crown: One of Nigel's first experiments is a one-man séance using an upside-down teacup, that rattles around when he asks the spirits questions. | |
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This was, of course, a staple of Dark Shadows. Resulted in Victoria being sent to the past, having been swapped with a person from that time. Odd result of a séance, but hey. | |
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The Haunting in Connecticut features one character's psychic flashbacks to a séance that took place in the Haunted House long ago, in which an adolescent boy channels ectoplasm from his mouth. | |
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Simon Ark: In "Sword for a Sinner", Simon holds a seance in which he impersonates the voice of the dead man to spook the killer into revealing themselves. | |
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The Room 2 devoted an entire chapter of puzzles to this concept. You end up in the room of a Phony Psychic who decided it was Real After All and then conducted a séance that probably went horribly wrong. The medium herself isn't present, but a box and cards used in her rituals is there, as is a letter scolding her for leaving her accomplice out of her latest scam. As you solve the puzzles, flickering lights and flying objects let you know when you've hit a solution. | |
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El Chavo del ocho: At least two episodes used the premise of Doña Clotilde and the adults of the Vecindad holding a séance to deal with "los espiritus chocarreros (the rude spirits)" haunting the neighborhood (in reality the side-effects of the kids doing stupid things and Don Ramon being a sleepwalker) and the children, hidden in the same room and frightened by the invocations of "The Witch of Apartment 71", start to make sounds and move things that the adults believe are being done by the ghosts, and frighten them in return. | |
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One of these is part of a puzzle in Sam & Max: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls. | |
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In A Drowned Maiden's Hair, Maud is adopted by the Hawthorne Sisters, three phony psychics who want her to help them with their "séances." Her duties include pulling on strings to make the chandelier sway and singing faintly along with the sisters so the customer will think she's a spirit. Later the sisters have her impersonate the eight-year-old drowning victim Caroline Lambert, and tell her to keep her hand in a bucket of ice so it will be cold when she touches Caroline's mother's cheek. | |
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Mortuary (1983): Christine and Greg find Mr. Andrews and his female friends holding a séance in the mortuary, trying to contact the spirit of Christine's father. | |
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Last Life SMP: Parodied during Day 8, with Grian and Joel trying to contact Bdubs' "ghost" (Bdubs in spectator mode), in which they succeed when Bdubs responds to their questions in the in-game chat. | |
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 favorite, The Wild World of Batwoman, features a séance scene for, quite frankly, no real reason at all. The ethnic slurs incurred make it a scene best not discussed in polite company. | |
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A séance (the "Argelian empathic contact") occurs in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wolf in the Fold". | |
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Elemental Masters: In The Wizard of London the heroes debunk a Phony Psychic, then a real ghost appears at the end of the séance. | |
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Good Omens has Madame Tracy, fake medium, and a scene where a séance unexpectedly produces real spirits. | |
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Paranormal Asylum: Michelle hosts a seance by herself one night. It ends with her becoming a vessel for the ghost of Mary. | |
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Night of the Demon features a séance where the medium channels the spirit of a researcher killed in the beginning of the movie, who provides some crucial information to his niece and his co-worker (who dismisses the séance as prearranged bunk). | |
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In Sword of Truth, the Mud People have the power to call a gathering of ancestors. With a firm grasp on the Idiot Ball, Richard decides to become a Mud Person so he can perform such a ceremony, despite being the son of the first book's villain. | |
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The Bible: King Saul, after God ignores his inquiries as to how to defeat the Philistines, turns in desperation to a medium (or "witch") in Endor and asks her to raise Samuel's spirit. (The irony was that Saul had previously cracked down on all necromancy within the Kingdom of Israel.) The medium, though recognizing Saul despite his disguise and suspecting entrapment, complies, and Samuel's spirit appears as an elderly man in a robe, none too pleased to be woken from his eternal rest. He curtly tells Saul that the next day he and his sons will die in battle, and sure enough, guess what happens. It's intensely argued whether or not it was actually the ghost of Samuel or if it was some other spirit posing as Samuel, but most Biblical scholars agree that the witch of Endor called up something, and the news was not good. |
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Dark Fall: The Journal: Jonathan Boakes's previous game, includes a Ouija board through which you can ask ghosts questions. | |
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A.S. Byatt's Possession has a kind of sub-subplot devoted to séances and exposure of phonies. Randolph's and Christabel's last meeting is at one of these. While it's possible something psychic did happen, there's also some fakery, which Randolph exposes. He calls this his "Gaza Exploit", comparing himself to Samson tearing down the Philistine temple, and writes "Mummy Possest", a poem about fake mediums. This is based on Truth in Television with Robert Browning (see below). | |
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On Courage the Cowardly Dog, Eustace and Muriel hire Shirley the Medium to contact Eustace's dead brother. | |
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Ghost Island: Issue #1 begins with Josh holding a séance with a family to contact their dead son, Tommy. When the father, Brian, gets involved, it's revealed that he is Tommy's killer. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Séance Schméance" has SpongeBob and Patrick holding one to uncover a long-forgotten sandwich recipe. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Unquiet Dead": The Doctor and company hold a séance to find out what's going on. It turns out to be Energy Beings rather than actual ghosts. "The Name of the Doctor": Vastra's psychic cross-time "conference call" has something of this vibe, including an actual ghost (River Song, who's speaking from the Library). |
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The American Experience had an episode called "Telegrams from the Dead," written, produced and directed by Matthew Collins, that explained Spiritualism as a phenomenon, a political movement, a reaction to the massive fatalities in the Civil War, and a heartfelt faith. Several seances are enacted, including a notorious 1854 moment when the spirits of a murderer and a forger showed up at the same sitting and re-enacted their crimes. | |
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Haunted Mansion (2023): Harriet sits down at a table with Ben and Gabbie to contact the ghost of Gracey, the mansion's previous owner. | |
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In And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!, teens perform a séance and accidentally summon the late father of one of the participants. | |
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The Others (2001) has one. The protagonists are being contacted by the very much alive new residents of their house. | |
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Nina Tanleven: An atypical version occurs in The Ghost Let Go when Nine and Chris, who can already see Mrs. Smiley’s ghost, work to bring Dolores Smiley into the link so she can see and communicate with her mother’s spirit and, by making peace with her, allow her to pass on. | |
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"Angel Down, Sussex" by Kim Newman begins with the heroine, Catriona Kaye, at a fake séance, which she proceeds to mercilessly deconstruct. (Arthur Conan Doyle makes a guest appearance in the story.) | |
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Happened twice on South Park: On the episode "Goth Kids 3: Dawn Of The Posers", the Goth Kids hold a séance to summon the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, who assume that Goths and emos are the same and irritate the Goth and Emo kids. In "Reverse Cowgirl", the boys arrange to hold a "sue-ance" and summon the ghost of John Harington, the inventor of the modern toilet, and sue him for causing the death of Clyde's mother. |
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Bobbinsverse: In one Steeple storyline, Clotilde and Ludmilla insist that Maggie should run a séance, saying that she was known for these things when they were at school together. Strangely, although the supernatural is definitely real in the setting, and Clotilde and Ludmilla themselves are genuine, active witches, Maggie is very clear that her séances are actually fake; she has studied the sort of stage magic tricks that Victorian fake mediums used. Apparently, everyone treats these events as pure theatre. However, shortly after the séance begins, Maggie is possessed by a (rather disturbing) supernatural effect. | |
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One 1927 strip of The Fortunes of Flossie sees superstitious Flossie attending a séance hosted by dubious "spiritists" — despite the obvious fakery of a bedsheet ghost, Flossie gets so scared she tries to leave early. As the caption puts it: | |
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One of the levels in Ghost Master has a couple of college students performing a séance in the basement of a frat house. Thanks to you, they get much more than they bargained for. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer had this in "Where the Wild Things Are" to exorcise the Lowell House from the Living Memory spirits created from the orphans' raw emotions and repressed energy. | |
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Ace Attorney: A formal spirit channeling is done this way. However, it's usually unnecessary and Maya often channels Mia with barely a moment's notice. | |
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Ghost (1990): Whoopi Goldberg plays a Phony Psychic conducting fake séances for money, who, to her surprise, actually does manage to communicate with the dead. | |
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Ghost Note: Mallory decides that she and her cousins will have a seance in her grandmother's attic at Thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunately, doing so leads to her getting involved with Eugene Burn when they find his guitar. | |
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Mysterium: The conceit of the game is that most of the players are psychics holding a seance, while the remaining player is a ghost trying to communicate with them. | |
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In Nightmare Alley, conducting these is Stan's main trade as the phony spiritualist preacher, 'Reverend Carlisle'. Of course, they're all a sham designed to part his wealthy clientele from their money. | |
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In The Uninvited (1944), Rick (Ray Milland again!) stages a phony séance to convince Stella that her dead mom wants her to leave the house, only to have Mom ( her real mom, that is!) actually show up and explain that she's trying to protect the girl. We see in this picture the old-time spelling glass, a homemade device which was eventually replaced by the Ouija board. | |
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