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Ectoplasm

THE HAUNTED MUSEUM

Ectoplasm was (or is) an 

odd and elusive substance that, 

while skeptics refute its 

existence at all, 

is reported to be 

totally repulsive. 

It is a seemingly

lifelike substance, 

solid or vaporous in nature, 

that allegedly exudes from 

the body of the medium and 

can be transformed

into materialized 

limbs, faces and even the 

entire bodies of spirits. 

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Ectoplasm often appears to be 

milky white in color and 

smells like ozone, 

according to most reports.

Coined by a French scientist 

named Charles Richet in 1894, 

to explain a third arm that 

allegedly appeared from a 

medium named Eusapia Palladino.

“Ectoplasm” came from the Greek 

words of “ekto” and “plasma”, 

meaning “exteriorized substance”. 

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Earlier than that though, 

there had already been reported 

vapors exuding around Daniel Douglas

Home and others.

These emanations are reportedly 

warm to the touch and often are 

reported as thick, clotted, 

mucus-like substances. 

They can be rubbery and dough-like 

and emerge from a body orifice, 

such as the mouth, 

ears or nose but can also come 

from the eyes, navel, 

nipples and even the vagina. 

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The structure of the ectoplasm 

varied from clouds and veils, 

to thin rods, 

membranes and heavy masses. 

Ectoplasm was also reported 

to disappear when exposed to light 

and would snap back violently. 

Touching the ectoplasm, 

or exposing it to light, 

was said to be able to cause 

injury to the medium. 

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This was one of the reasons 

that mediums insisted that séances 

should take place in near darkness 

and that sitters should not 

approach the mediums or the 

emanations that had formed.

 

Critics had their own reasons 

for darkness and the avoidance 

of exposing ectoplasm to 

investigation — fraud. 

Analysis that had been carried 

out on samples of the substance 

yielded few clues. 

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Most critics claimed that it 

was chewed paper, 

gauze or fabric, 

which had likely been 

regurgitated. 

One investigator stated that the 

ectoplasm that he studied was 

nothing more than “butter muslin.” 

He added: 

“It always has been and 

always will be.. 

I did seem some produced 

in a séance once. 

It smelt appallingly of body odor, 

which wasn’t surprising, 

considering where it was kept.”

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Investigator and magician 

Harry Houdini found most of 

the ectoplasm that he uncovered 

to be obvious trickery. 

He had seen mediums who used 

rubber bladders to blow ectoplasm 

from their mouths and had found 

others using cotton rubbed with 

goose grease and still others 

using strips of cloth that had 

been fashioned into odd 

shapes and veils. 

It was also easy, 

as Houdini himself knew for 

the mediums to swallow all 

sorts of substances and then 

regurgitate them at will. 

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Houdini often would swallow 

and then cause keys, needles, 

thread and other items to 

re-appear again.

He, 

and many other investigators, 

came to the conclusion that 

most séance attendees were 

so amazed by ectoplasm due 

to the power of suggestion. 

Strange and bizarre substances 

that appeared in the midst of 

a sitting would seem incredibly 

dramatic in a dimly lit séance 

chamber and once the lights 

came up, 

the ghostly emanations 

would have vanished! 

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Who wouldn’t be amazed?

Fraudulent or phantasmic? 

Who can say? 

Believers were absolutely 

convinced of the reality of the 

stuff and skeptics 

(and some would say the rational!) 

were completely on the other side 

of the fence. 

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    Harry Houdini

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Houdini once wrote that: 

“Nothing has crossed my path 

to make me think that the 

Great Almighty will allow 

emanations from the human 

body of such horrible, revolting, 

vicious shapes, 

which like 

‘genie from the bronze bottle’ 

ring bells, move handkerchiefs, 

wobble tables and do other 

flapdoodle stunts.”

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