Mediums Unite To Protect Ectoplasm Weaving Interests

     "The ectoplasm produced by mediums in China or Southeast Asia is frequently generated under appalling conditions of extreme stress and hardship. There is documented proof that men and women must work in cramped, uncomfortable rooms up to twelve hours a day channeling spirit after spirit without a break to produce fifteen to eighteen feet of ectoplasmic cloth. I have seen video of clandestinely shot by NOAM investigators showing a shouting foreman yanking the ectoplasm as it emerges from the medium's nose! Those who fall prey to possession by evil spirits are fired. And the spirits, too, have rights in this manner. They are supposed to be enjoying the Hereafter and not forced to endure an eternity of abusive sweatshop labor!"

     Traditionally, ectoplasmic cloth, which resembles fine bleached muslin, was primarily produced during the late 19th century and the early 1920's in the United States and Great Britain. Although mediums insisted that ectoplasm melted away soon after the spirits that made it emerged from one or more bodily orifices, a clandestine trade in the cloth existed until the late 1960's when such supernatural cloth found a successful niche market in the counterculture of the time. Thanks to the currently popular '60's and '70's retro-fashion-look, the paranormal fabric is enjoying a new lease on life.

     But cheap foreign competition is making those who produce the cloth in the traditionally relaxed method in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom nervous. Ectoplasmic cloth produced in the East costs $200/square yard as opposed to $1200/square yard produced in the United States. However, the cheap Asian fabric is not without other hidden costs. Many believe fabric produced by embittered, overworked mediums and spirits in Asia might hold supernatural terrors for the unsuspecting.

     "We have documented cases of people who have horrible paranormal experiences whenever they wear the clothing from which this cloth is made," warns Randall. "A well-known Broadway Actress confided that she awoke in the night to find her partner lying in a pool of his own blood. When she screamed, the awful vision evaporated, he woke up and everything was normal again. The same sort of thing happened every night she wore an imported ectoplasmic shirt. During the day, she forgot lines, was late for rehearsals, and was even fired from one production all together. When I told her the circumstances in which the shirt might have been made, she flew to Hong Kong to consult a traditional Chinese healer. On her way, the plane stopped six times for mechanical problems. When she finally arrived in Hong Kong and went to the healer, the man tore the shirt from her hands as soon as he saw it and burned it and told her to never come near him again."

     Another case involves the strange, grisly death of choreographer on a music video set. According to witnesses, an 8-foot tall demon with three heads devoured the man. While the alleged incident happened in a Hollywood studio, Randall darkly foresees something like this happening in Iowa "very soon."