What’s the Deal with Paranormal Ectoplasm? Short answer: It’s spiritualist bunk that reflected the science of its time. By Daniel Engber. Published Aug 5, 2015 5:00 PM EDT.

Dive into the bizarre and mysterious history of ectoplasm a ghostly substance once claimed as proof of spirit communication.

So ectoplasm ends up being nothing more than a bunk product of the pseudoscience of its time, a tool for hucksters to take advantage of the vulnerable people willing to go along with it.

Then we move on to videoed interviews with some of those inhabiting the otherworld of the paranormal. Eileen Coly, who died in 2013, was the daughter of Irish trance medium Eileen Garrett.

Often when found in photographs, any unexplainable mist and vapors have been called ectoplasm. The structure of the ectoplasm can vary, but it is always a result of paranormal activity.

Far from being the physical evidence of a paranormal presence, ectoplasm was generally found to be made of a mixture of egg white, gelatin and soap, ...

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