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Mar 2023
36m 40s

S2 Ep40: The Fox Sisters: Part 2

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
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In the mid 1800s, Maggie and Kate Fox convinced the world that they could communicate with the dead. And, for a fee, they'd communicate with your dead through a séance. The sisters became so famous for their private, as well as public, readings, that an entire new religion--Spiritualism--was ushered in to make sense (and profits) of it all. It was all going so well. The were rich and world famous. What could possibly go wrong?

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