This week we uncover a 19th century spiritual medium’s quest to create a sentient AI machine that will save the human race. By the time we discover his schematics was channeled by a committee of spirits chaired by Benjamin Franklin it is too late to turn back.

We also feature phantom invaders from the 1600s and a new theory on the origin of 1800s airships.

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Links

• The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True Tales
• The Bizarre Mechanical Messiah of John Murray Spear
• The Electric Messiah
• The educator: being suggestions, theoretical and practical, designed to promote man-culture and integral reform, with a view to the ultimate establishment of a divine social state on earth
• Messages from the superior state : communicated by John Murray
• John Benedict Buescher. The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
• John Murray Spear
• Universalist Church of America

Music

• Robotaki – Ghostboy via Indie Shuffle
• Liv Dawson – Tapestry (Phairo Remix) via Acid Stag
• TRP – Stash via House of Coxhead