Written by Lauren
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As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
Description
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Live Music, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Tickets from £12.50
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Over 18
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Sun, 26th Oct 2025 @ 13:30 - 15:00
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13:30 - 15:00
Since the creation of the modern celebrity, séance and the
supernatural have been unhappy bedfellows, allowing audiences to
incite or imagine interactions with their idols. Mediums and
psychics have built careers on the backs of dead celebrities, with
many long-dead pop stars unknowingly spurring an entire subsection
of psychic memoirs and after-death experiences. Neither Elvis, John
Lennon or Princess Diana have had restful afterlives, but have
experienced decades of public appearances and sightings, captured
on film, vinyl and countless paperback books.
Para-social relationships are an inherent part of the
celebrity/consumer cycle, but do not finish at the point of death,
rather transform and elevate, where personal ideas, beliefs and
senses of self can be projected onto a spectral blank slate.
Looking at popular culture within the history of celebrity séance,
we can learn more about ourselves and our societal needs than what
Oscar Wilde and Michael Jackson had for breakfast. This
lighthearted talk takes a sideways look at the weird world of
celebrity seances in western history, from Elvis' spectral
adventures in Watford to Oscar Wilde's post-mortem
literature.
Dr Kate
Cherrell
Dr Kate Cherrell is a
writer and broadcaster specialising in paranormal history and
popular seance. Her academic interests include 19th century gothic,
periodical culture and modern spiritualism. She is the author of
Begotten (2025) and Buried England (2026) and writes commercially
on supernatural history. As a paranormal historian, she has
co-hosted Haunted Homecoming (Discovery, 2022, 2024) and
Unexplained: Caught on Camera (Discovery, 2023), and has provided
historical expertise on several television shows for major
broadcasters. She has edited the blog Burials and Beyond since 2017
and can usually be found in some dark, dusty corner with a big
glass of wine and a good book.
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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Celebrity Seances
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13:30 - 15:00 | £12.50 |
Location
Address
Guys Hospital Chapel, Entrance via the Courtyard, St. Thomas Street, London, SE1 9GU
Nearest Station
London Bridge (Tube)
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Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
Each year, Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation host London Month of the Dead, a festival of over 60 different events to inform, provoke and entertain on teh subject of mortality and the city.
Events include walks, talks, workshops, theatrical performances, storytelling, live-scored films, concerts, and visits to secret parts of the city.
Subjects span the cultural landscape from the forensic to the esoteric with an unparalleled range of speakers, performers, guides and experts.
Each year, London Month of the Dead donates 20% of ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries.
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