In the mid 1800s, Maggie and Kate Fox convinced the world that they could communicate with the dead. And, for a fee, they'd communicate with your dead through a séance. The sisters became so famous for their private, as well as public, readings, that an entire new religion--Spiritualism--was ushered in to make sense (and profits) of it all. It was all going so well. The were rich and world famous. What could possibly go wrong?
SOURCES:
Fox Property History - National Spiritualist Association of Churches
They Spoke With The Dead - Barbara M. Weisberg - AMERICAN HERITAGE
The Fox Sisters: Spiritualism's Unlikely Founders - Historynet.com
The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: the True Story of the Fox Sisters - Reuben Davenport - 1888.
A Report of the Mysterious Noises Heard in the House of John D. Fox, in Hydesville. EE Lewis. 1848.
A Report of the Mysterious Noises Heard in the House of John D. Fox, in Hydesville. EE Lewis. 1848.
How the Fox Sisters’ Hoax Gave Birth to Spiritualism. Edward White. The Paris Review.
The Fox Sisters: Spiritualism's Unlikely Founders - Historynet.com
The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism - Karen Abbott - Smithsonian Magazine
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