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Join me in The Red Treehouse as we explore an unsettling and mystifying possession story--Lurancy Vennum, The Watseka Wonder. In the late 1870's, a teenage girl began experiencing debilitating seizures that left her in a trance-like state--and claiming she was possessed by the spirit of a young woman.

A young woman who'd experienced many of the same symptoms--and who'd died 12 years before.

Was Lurancy Vennum possessed by the spirit of Mary Roff? Or was it nothing more than a hoax, and if so, how couldshe tell stories and recall details from someone else’s life?

Join me in The Red Treehouse to find out!

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Sources:

https://www.clermontsun.com/2019/03/15/marc-hoover-mary-roff-returns-from-the-dead#:~:text=She%20passed%20out%20from%20blood,died%20on%20July%205%2C%201865.

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/watseka

https://hauntedus.com/illinois/roff-house-haunted/

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/watseka-wonder-the-startling-story-of-the-first-documented-possession-ghost-brothers-lights-out

https://www.bumpinthenight.net/night-at-the-watseka-wonder-house

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watseka_Wonder

https://alexmatsuo.com/americas-first-documented-case-of-spirit-possession-the-watseka-wonder/

https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/blog/the-watseka-wonder/

https://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-06/watsekawonder00stev/watsekawonder00stev.pdf

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