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What in the Sam Hill?!
19 - The Fox Sisters Hoax
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19 - The Fox Sisters Hoax

The Fox Sisters famously started the Spiritualism movement with a hoax in 1848. But today I’m talking about the cracking of toes, a famous explorer getting swindled, a printing press run by ghosts, and a dysfunctional family of garbage humans.

Links.

Fox Sisters Ages
Ghost of Ganargwa (1848 Report)
Humbug Exposed
History of Spiritualism
The Missing Link of Modern Spiritualism
A Brief History of the Fox Family
Buffalo Republic - 15 May 1848
New York Tribune - 18 Oct 1851
Buffalo Commercial - 17 Aug 1858
Buffalo Daily Republic - 18 Aug 1858
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 22 Dec 1865
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 6 Jan 1868
Buffalo Commercial - 26 Mar 1869
New York Herald - 18 Jun 1870
Buffalo Weekly Courier - 20 Oct 1875
Washington Republican - 16 Nov 1888

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