Is the Psychic Capital of the World the real deal? I went to Cassadaga to find out!
Tucked away in Volusia County, Cassadaga was founded in 1875 by a trance medium named George Colby. He claimed a spirit guide named Seneca told him to head south and build a spiritualist community. Colby followed the visions and landed here, in a little Florida town whose name comes from a word supposedly meaning “water beneath the rocks.”
Spiritualism is belief system based on the idea that life continues after death, and that the spirits of the departed can communicate with the living to offer comfort, clarity, or healing. It teaches no dogma or creed, just nine guiding principles for living in harmony with both this world and the next.
Today, the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp is the oldest and largest of its kind in the South. Many believe it sits at the crossing of vortexes and ley lines, or mystical energy paths, which is why so many psychics, healers, and mediums are drawn here.
I had a feeling we were in for something supernatural when “Eye in the Sky” by The Alan Parsons Project started playing as we rolled in. (That’s the only reason I picked it over a song from Bright Eyes’ album “Cassadaga”—listen to it on the way over, trust me, it sets the vibe.)
Cassadaga feels like any sleepy Southern town… until it doesn’t. Wind chimes stir even when there’s no breeze. Porch cats blink slowly at you like they know something. Murals of Bigfoot, alien auras, and aligned chakras decorate quiet cottages.
I booked a session with a medium named Marty at Brigham Hall, half-expecting it to be fun, or fake. But what I got was… more real than I was prepared for. Marty knew things about me and my loved ones that felt like more than lucky guesses or coincidence. She didn’t ask leading questions or cold read me. And whether you believe in spirit guides or powerful intuition, she told me exactly what I needed to hear.
I didn’t get to stay long (Florida rainstorms had their own spiritual agenda), but I’ll be back. And next time? I might not leave!
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