Episode #258 – How Did Two Teenagers Talk to the Dead? (Part I)

In 1848 in the rural community of Hydesville, New York, a small farmhouse owned by the Fox family was overrun by strange rapping and knocking sounds that came from no identifiable source. The family eventually guessed that the sounds were being made by spirits and that those spirits were trying to communicate with the living. Strangely, the knocking sounds did not stay confined to the farmhouse, instead they seemed to follow the family’s two youngest daughters, Kate and Maggie Fox, wherever they went. Soon the young girls discovered that they could reliably communicate with these strange knocking spirits. This set them on a path to becoming America’s best known spirit mediums, launching the movement known as modern spiritualism. But, many were convinced that these teenagers were were frauds, whose April fool’s day prank had spun wildly out of control. What was going on with these girls? Were they truly interacting with the paranormal, or where they instead child-prodigies who had orchestrated one of the eras greatest cons? Continue reading “Episode #258 – How Did Two Teenagers Talk to the Dead? (Part I)” →

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