Crowds were lined up awaiting to see the show. The seats were filled and one could hear the people chatting amongst themselves how excited and frightened they were, because they didn’t know what to expect from “Phantasms III: This Time, You Will Be Touched.”

“I thought it was amazing, very enlightening, very entertaining, he [Jason Davidson] is a great speaker,” Daphne Smith, 43, who works for the Santa Monica Police dispatch, said.

The show, hosted by EC communications studies professor Jason Davidson, began with a lecture of how spiritualism and communicating with the death began in the early 19th century and how it has impacted modern society.

According to the brochure handed out at the show, a phantasm is “1. A figment of the imagination or disordered mind; 2. an apparition of a living or dead person.”

“Definitely “Phantasms [III]” was one in a lifetime experience and I am glad I came,” Deangelo Smith, 18, business major said.

Davidson’s lecture talked abut how spiritualism began and how people started communicating with the death and its transition through the years. The lecture also included humorous jokes and magic demonstrations that coincided with his lecture and even included a musical.

“I liked the song at the end, I was singing along with it,” Thomas Bennet, 22, physics major, said.

Award-winning magicians and “America’s Got Talent” finalists David and Leman were also part of the “Phantasms III” show.

Whether one believes in communicating with the dead or not, Davidson’s “Phantasms III” was filled with fun and entertainment, with the entire audience clapping and laughing through the show.

“I am skeptical, but I like to keep an open mind to this sort of things, I like to think that there is more to life than people can put in a bottle,”Joseph Whited, 23, arts major, said.