Ghosts in San Francisco de Goicoechea: spiritism and sociability during the 1900s

Abstract

During the 20th century first years, Costa Rican spiritualist movement strongly entered the global paranormal scene because of a phenomena that occurred within a humble house in Goicoechea where political and scientific local known people met to see ghosts. They met night by night holding spiritualist manuals to invoke spirits from beyond to verify the existence of other spheres of existence. This group inaugurated the Costa Rican spiritualist spectacle. This article seeks to narrate those events and analyze the Circulo Franklin that gave rise to an incipient idea of Costa Rican sociability.