Episode 2.40 // The Fox Sisters: Part 2

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.

• 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 Second

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