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Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
March 1848. Mysterious knocks are heard in a little house in rural New York, throwing the community into turmoil. Are the children who live there -- Kate and Maggie Fox, sisters aged eleven and fourteen -- making the raps to trick their parents? Or are the girls mediums for otherworldly messages? From a battery of strange sounds and the excitement they create, modern Spiritualism is born. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism...
2) Captivity
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two stories in one novel. The first is the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. The second story is about loss and grief, a tale of the bright promise that the Fox Sisters offer up to the skeptical Clara Gill,...
Publisher
Ad-Hoc Productions
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
In search of white crows tells the story of the Fox sisters and the birth of modern spiritualism; the Strange disappearance of Captain William Morgan tells a story of conspiracy, deception, and betrayal and the solution to a 180 year old mystery; the Murder of William Lyman tells the story of frontier justice and a 19th century murder.
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
""The Fox sisters grew up just outside of Rochester, NY, in a house that had a reputation for being haunted, due in large part to a series of strange "rappings" or "knockings" that plagued its inhabitants. Fed up by whatever was responsible for the knockings, the youngest of the sisters (who was twelve at the time) challenged the ghost and ended up communicating with the spirit of Charles Haynes, who had been murdered in the house and buried in the...
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