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(Ep: 554) The Vermont Family Who Claimed They Could Make the Dead Appear
In the 1870s, people traveled to rural Chittenden, Vermont to see something extraordinary: members of the Eddy family who claimed they could communicate with the dead — and even make spirits physically appear before an audience.
But how much of the story we've heard for the last 150 years is actually true?
On this episode of Vermont Artists & Authors, Barney Smith talks with Vermont historian Jason Smiley, who has spent more than a decade researching William and Horatio Eddy and the larger Eddy family.
Jason discusses how a Vermont family became famous during America's spiritualism craze…
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