Borrowed Bones

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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