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The Fox Sisters
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Maggie and Kate Fox sparked the American seance craze after their older sister Leah, turned a parlor prank into a booming business model that still haunts today’s mediums and paranormal shows. Listen as we explain how the Fox sisters communicated with the dead.
Sources:
History.com, HeadStuff.org, National Women's Historical Society, Archive.org,
Original Report of the Hydesville Haunting , The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism, NYHeritage.org
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Chapters
1. The Fox Sisters (00:00:00)
2. Opening, Surgery Update, Halloween Vibes (00:00:26)
3. Setting The Stage: Burned-Over District (00:02:08)
4. The Night The Rappings Began (00:10:00)
5. Hydesville Hysteria And The Peddler’s Tale (00:15:55)
6. Leah Takes Charge And Finds The Trick (00:25:10)
7. From Parlor Prank To Paid Seances (00:30:04)
8. Skeptics, Buffalo Doctors, And Crowd Psychology (00:37:20)
9. Fame, New York City, And National Spread (00:46:01)
10. Love, Loss, And The Sisters’ Decline (00:54:30)
11. The 1888 Confession And Public Denial (01:02:02)
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