On the latest episode of 'Excuse me,what?', they visit the people of the "psychic capitol of the world."
Cassadaga, Florida, USA ... a tiny, 57 acre, unincorporated community, built by a leader in the American Spiritualism movement, which peaked in popularity in the latter half of 19th century. This town has more psychic mediums per capita than anywhere else in the world, and quite an interesting past.
A Mr. George P. Colby was a famed, travelling Spiritualist medium (1848-1933). At the bright age of 12, he was baptised at a church in Minneapolis. Minnesota, and soon afterward, began to experience the abilities of clairvoyance and psychic healing.
According to him, he was visited by many spiritual guides, but the most clear and frequent called itself 'Seneca' and described itself as the spirit of a great Native American chief. George said that Seneca had told him as a child that he'd found a great Spiritualist community in the American South, and in 1894, that's exactly what he did.
The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was founded by George in December of 1894, and has remained something of a refuge for the psychically inclined ever since. It even found a place on the US National Registry of Historic Places.