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Mitch Horowitz's Occult New York Walking Tour

David Pescovitz at 12:23 pm Mon, Sep 19, 2011

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The latest episode of The Midnight Archive weird culture video series talks to my friend Mitch Horowitz, author of the excellent Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation, about his popular Occult New York Walking Tour. The Midnight Archive

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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zombiebob

I’ve got to check this out. OF course there is a whole ‘underworld’ in NYC that is unknown unless one is in the know… Afro-cuban houses of worship, Mc-Wiccan covens, Curanderos, Santa Muerte ‘congregations’ etc… Closest most people will get would be walking by a Botanica and peering in.
Trevcaru

Cool stuff, i recently aquired some occult manuscripts from the 20s and prior to: Vigil of the Dead, The Master Mind, The living Clay, Handbook of Vibrations, etc… Very rare.
Guest

Dang! Ectoplasm right out the ear! :O
Guest

This is *so* interesting. I love it.
I ordered the book just now.