As if the Net weren't crowded enough already, people now are inviting spirits to log on.
Online seances are even easier to fake than live ones.
There have been at least two attempts to make cybercontanct with the late Harry Houdini. The Houdini Museum , for instance, tried it over Halloween and so did the World Cafe in Santa Monica, Calif., but the results from these attempts are conspicuous by their absence. Other spirit seekers on the Internet are willing to settle for any old departed soul with the wherewithal and an Internet connection. Some of us were on both coasts of the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The most we were ever able to bring together was three, and we felt it was not an adequate number to hold the seance.