#89 - SPOOKY GIRL FALL: The Fantastical Fox Sisters and the Gilded Age of American Spiritualism
Added 2021-10-24 21:08:58 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid explore the rise and fall of the spirit-rapping Fox Sisters in mid-19th century America, the national spiritualism craze that followed, the dueling incantations and recantations between the sisters, Silk Topper interest in spiritual phenomena, Leah Fox marrying into the extremely old line Underhill dynasty, Gustavus Myers deboonking the deboonkers, Arctic explorer/sp*rit r*pping skeptic Elisha Kane sliding into Maggie Fox’s DMs and getting friendzoned, and Thomas Edison inventing a necrophone to detect the “master” life-unit thetans that comprise our consciousness.
