CASSADAGA, Fla. – It’s a small town in Volusia County known as the “psychic capital of the world.”
“At one point, nobody used to come here. Then the [Cassadaga] hotel started doing the haunted house. Now we have a festival with vendors and readings during Halloween. A lot of people come here to have a good time and be scared, that’s why I don’t do readings on Halloween because I’m not here to scare people,” said Spiritual Medium Louis Gates.
Cassadaga is home to a prominent Spiritualist Camp founded in 1894 by George Colby, a well-known medium who’s said to have had psychic abilities to connect and communicate with the dead. Colby donated 35 acres to start a Spiritualist Camp in the south after he was led through the wilderness of Central Florida by his spirit guide “Seneca” to fulfill a a prophecy…