# ## spiritualism rose in popularity after World War I > [!zettel] > - keywords:: [[Spiritualism]], [[World War I]], [[1918 influenza pandemic]] > - location:: [[United States]] > - period:: [[1910s]], [[1920s]] - [[Girl Talk with the Dead! (Ask a Mortician)]] - Post [[World War I]] (and [[1918 influenza pandemic]]), families again looking for solace/answers - Newspaper reports of the supernatural and spirits on the battle field » Angels of Muns… except it was fiction (The Bowman, written by Arther Machen) published alongside real news --- related:: [[spiritualism rose in popularity after the American Civil War]] related:: [[spiritualism rose in popularity after World War II]]