Episode 2.39 // The Fox Sisters: Part 1

The human urge to believe in something bigger than ourselves, to search for answers from above or beyond can go awry. And throughout history, it has. One such example took two girls and their followers on a whirlwind journey that would leave a mark and make for a fantastic story.

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.

• The Teen Girls Who Talked to the Dead - Atlas Obscura

• 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

TRANSCRIPT:

The Fox Sisters Part the First

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