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How These Sisters TRICKED Us All · CelinaSpookyBoo

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Speaker 1: You're not dead unless the Fox sisters say so. Many
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Speaker 1: have tried to pin down spiritualism, but in reality, it
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Speaker 1: was much more than just a passing trend. It was ugly,
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Speaker 1: to say the least. The practices back then were not okay. Yet,
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Speaker 1: when two young sisters in the middle of the 1800s
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Speaker 1: claimed to be able to communicate with spirits, they quickly
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Speaker 1: rose to fame as mediums and unintentionally started a pattern
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Speaker 1: of momentum even they couldn't stop. So... Does it truly
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Speaker 1: work to resurrect the dead and gamble with the truth
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Speaker 1: of their last moments? Here is how the sisters opened
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Speaker 1: a portal we truly could have avoided. Hey, Boo Crew,
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Speaker 1: it's Selena, and welcome to the Haunted Estate. And before
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Speaker 1: we spill the tea, we drink the tea. One night,
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Speaker 1: the Fox sisters and their supposedly haunted farmhouse became a
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Speaker 1: cultural phenomenon. And since then, things have not been able
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Speaker 1: to get back to normal. As word spread about the
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Speaker 1: unexplained wrapping, more and more neighbors showed up to look
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Speaker 1: at the inside of the sisters' room. After a comprehensive inspection,
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Speaker 1: the females were determined to be completely honest. And a
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Speaker 1: few questions after, it was quickly determined that this was
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Speaker 1: the spirit of Charles B. Rosner. a peddler who had
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Speaker 1: been killed in the house a few years earlier. At first,
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Speaker 1: the girls thought Mr. Rosner was indeed the devil. They
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Speaker 1: went as far as to call him Mr. Splitfoot, referring
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Speaker 1: to the cloven hooves of Satan. Yet, upon closer examination,
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Speaker 1: the knocks from the spirit appeared to point to a
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Speaker 1: human soul gone rogue. It was also reported by nosy
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Speaker 1: detectives that under the house they discovered possible belongings of
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Speaker 1: the deceased Mr. Rosner, including bone fragments and personal items. So,
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Speaker 1: as expected, Maggie and Kate were taken to live with
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Speaker 1: family members during all this chaos and the anticipation surrounding
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Speaker 1: the discovery. But the unexplained knocking unexpectedly followed the girls
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Speaker 1: wherever they went. Where, when, did everything go wrong? It
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Speaker 1: was 1848, and before anyone could make sense of it,
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Speaker 1: things went south in Hydesville, New York. At nightfall, a
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Speaker 1: frightened Margaret Fox pulled her neighbor from the house so
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Speaker 1: he could see the terrifying sight That had alarmed her
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Speaker 1: so much. When the neighbor arrived at the farmhouse, Margaret
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Speaker 1: showed her two young daughters, 11-year-old Catherine, Kate Fox, and
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Speaker 1: 15-year-old Margaretha, Maggie Fox. And in their bedrooms, the girl's
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Speaker 1: mother had been receiving bizarre statements from them. After all,
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Speaker 1: seeing their proof, they went straight to a neighbor to
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Speaker 1: verify what she was seeing. The girls claimed that every night,
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Speaker 1: noises such as taps, knocks, and rumbles filled their bedroom.
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Speaker 1: The sounds were unnerving, but perhaps so more was the
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Speaker 1: impression that that the source could be alive or not.
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Speaker 1: The ghostly noisemaker would knock answers to the girls as
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Speaker 1: they asked questions. The spirit even correctly identified the girls'
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Speaker 1: ages when asked to do so. It provided logical responses
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Speaker 1: to questions. Then, when requested to indicate yes or no
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Speaker 1: with certain numbers of taps, the unidentified went as far
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Speaker 1: as to claim a solid yes when asked if it
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Speaker 1: was the tortured spirit of a murdered soul. It was
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Speaker 1: then that a chain of events would influence spiritual development,
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Speaker 1: both within the outside of the United States and give
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Speaker 1: rise to many of the concepts and customs that today
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Speaker 1: are widely associated with the world of spirits. In 1848,
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Speaker 1: radical new ideas were born in New York. Two prominent individuals,
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Speaker 1: Quakers Amy and Isaac Post, were involved in many of
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Speaker 1: these bold new ideas. Apart from being strong supporters of
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Speaker 1: freedom and women's rights, the pair had a close relationship
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Speaker 1: with the Fox family. That is why the couple was
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Speaker 1: open to the idea that the two children Kate had
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Speaker 1: moved in with had a special talent, when Leah Fox,
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Speaker 1: the oldest of the two kids, appeared to channel the
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Speaker 1: spirit of the Post family's deceased daughter. The Post turned
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Speaker 1: out to be among some of the earliest advocates of
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Speaker 1: the sisters, reserving theaters and music halls so others could
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Speaker 1: see the amazing sisters and the alleged communication that they
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Speaker 1: had with the dead. Intimate home seances also became popular
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Speaker 1: social gatherings that drew sizable crowds as the Fox sisters'
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Speaker 1: fame increased. Kate, Maggie, and now Leah would speak with
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Speaker 1: the recently departed through noises that appeared to materialize out
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Speaker 1: of thin air. all in front of a stunned crowd.
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Speaker 1: While doubt is a normal response for audiences used to
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Speaker 1: a wide range of frauds and fantastical claims, in 1848,
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Speaker 1: the spiritual abilities of the Fox sisters were sufficiently convincing
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Speaker 1: enough to draw notable people like Sir Arthur Conan. Kate, Maggie,
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Speaker 1: and Leah's fans even thought the girls had broken through
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Speaker 1: the barrier that separated mankind from the spirit realm. And
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Speaker 1: that is probably one of the reasons why six days
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Speaker 1: after his death, on July 13, 1930, in the middle
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Speaker 1: of his memorial service at London Royal Albert Hall, Arthur
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Speaker 1: Conan Doyle made an appearance, adding to the mystery and
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Speaker 1: intrigue that seemed to be never-ending. Although no one saw him,
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Speaker 1: Estelle Roberts, a spirit medium, gave the attendees the reassurance
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Speaker 1: that Doyle had fulfilled his vow on his deathbed. coming
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Speaker 1: back to provide evidence that communicating with the dead is
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Speaker 1: indeed feasible. The Fox sisters stood for religious transformation to
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Speaker 1: a great number of their followers, an intellectual growth so
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Speaker 1: immense that it could alter the very essence of humanity.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't long until an increasing number of people
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Speaker 1: started claiming to be able to communicate with spirits. As
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Speaker 1: a result, spirit mediums gained popularity in rich social circles
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Speaker 1: as both entertainment and a means of spiritual exploration. In
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Speaker 1: many such communities, the mystery and appeal of what could
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Speaker 1: lie beyond, also coupled with the seeming ability that certain
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Speaker 1: gifted people unlocked its riddles, was too much for religious
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Speaker 1: people to withstand. But where was the truth, and when
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Speaker 1: did it begin to bleed into what we now call spiritualism,
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Speaker 1: erasing the boundaries of reality? See, there was plenty of
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Speaker 1: proof that the Foxes' rapping was fake during the first
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Speaker 1: four years of their popularity. Some ironically noted how often
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Speaker 1: the ghosts of well-known people like Benjamin Franklin materialized at
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Speaker 1: the Fox's seances. Another couldn't help but observe that the
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Speaker 1: great man's grasp of grammar and spelling had drastically declined
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Speaker 1: since he'd passed away. Then there were occasions when Franklin
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Speaker 1: and other stiffs chose not to show up at all
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Speaker 1: since the circumstances didn't suit them. Not to mention, cushions
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Speaker 1: were positioned between the girls' feet and the wooden planks
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Speaker 1: during a performance in Buffalo. That night, the only sound
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Speaker 1: in the air was that of the sound of strained stillness.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Leah launched her standard defense. Only people with
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Speaker 1: pure heart and unwavering faith would be able to see
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Speaker 1: conclusive evidence of the girls' abilities, and that the negative
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Speaker 1: energy of cynics contaminated the channel between the girls and
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Speaker 1: the spirits. It was the perfect example of magical thinking
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Speaker 1: and circular logic. And so, driven by the force of self-delusion,
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Speaker 1: spiritualism expanded swiftly through Great Britain, possibly being the initial
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Speaker 1: American cultural export that enslaved the ancient homeland. And in
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Speaker 1: all its irony, Kate was heavily involved with that, putting
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Speaker 1: on performances in which spirits materialized as well through rapping.
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Speaker 1: It's unknown exactly how she accomplished that, but at her seances,
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Speaker 1: Visions were reported to manifest in odd psychic light. By then,
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Speaker 1: the mystique of the Fox sisters had headfully captivated the British,
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Speaker 1: just as it had the Americans. And Leah, in particular,
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Speaker 1: benefited from the reputation that crossed the continents. She had
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Speaker 1: been a single mother before the Hydesville wrapping, hampered by
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Speaker 1: the widespread social constraints associated with being a born woman.
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Speaker 1: So if one good thing happened that came out of
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Speaker 1: the entire hoax was probably that the women dominated the
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Speaker 1: field of spiritual mediumship, an aspect of entertainment industry that
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Speaker 1: the sisters had especially contributed more than anybody else could
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Speaker 1: even start to create. Spinning into spiritualism also led Leah
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Speaker 1: to have access to opportunities, riches, and social influence everywhere.
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Speaker 1: that someone from her background would not typically have. She
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Speaker 1: developed into a respected social woman and Wall Street banker's
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Speaker 1: wife during the ensuing decades. She was socially elevated, but
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Speaker 1: spiritualism had become so commonplace that she didn't see the
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Speaker 1: need to disassociate herself from the movement anymore. And then
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Speaker 1: it happened. The rapping craze caused pain and misery for Maggie,
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Speaker 1: the sister who had been burdened with the most performing duties.
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Speaker 1: and who had been disturbed by her own lying from
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Speaker 1: the start. At 17, she met renowned Arctic explorer Elijah
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Speaker 1: Kane in 1852, and the two set off on an
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Speaker 1: oddly tense long-distance romance. Of course, Kane had to strike
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Speaker 1: a balance between his one true love and his humiliation
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Speaker 1: at his lover's lifelong devotion to sideshow pseudoscience. Obviously, Maggie
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Speaker 1: had held on to the hope that she would one
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Speaker 1: day marry him and give up her position as the
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Speaker 1: movement's prophet, believing that she would become Mrs. Elijah Kane. Yet,
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Speaker 1: the most sophisticated members of Philadelphia society, the Kane family,
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Speaker 1: viewed Maggie as a backwoods promoter of vulgar immortality. Before
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Speaker 1: his most recent international trip, Elijah made a compromise on
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Speaker 1: a ring exchange ceremony out of fear of implications of
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Speaker 1: a traditional marriage. He pledged that upon his return, there
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Speaker 1: would be a formal marriage, approved by both God and
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Speaker 1: the law. That day never came. Since Elijah was traveling,
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Speaker 1: he became very ill and passed away in Cuba at
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Speaker 1: the young age of 36. At the same time, Elijah's
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Speaker 1: parents denied Maggie her right to a portion of their
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Speaker 1: son's fortune by refusing to recognize her as their son's
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Speaker 1: common-law wife and engaged, adding insult to injury to her
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Speaker 1: already sorrowful life. Soon after, gathering enough courage to make
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Speaker 1: a public confession in 1888, Maggie had been waiting 40
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Speaker 1: years after the childhood prank that had altered her whole life.
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Speaker 1: Maggie found it difficult to accept that the cotton reel
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Speaker 1: might spin away from her and that her hands would
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Speaker 1: once drop. Even then, at the Academy of Music in
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Speaker 1: New York, she made a passionate confession that included a
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Speaker 1: detailed explanation of of how she and her sister carried
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Speaker 1: out the alleged prank. All these years, no one had
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Speaker 1: appeared to notice that it had been the night of
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Speaker 1: March 31st, the eve of April Fool's Day, when her
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Speaker 1: mother had called the neighbors to report seeing the ghost
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Speaker 1: tap and knock. Margaret admitted in front of the shocked
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Speaker 1: audience that she and Kate had secretly tied an apple
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Speaker 1: to a string and pulled it until it brushed across
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Speaker 1: their bed. So, as the grown-ups started to take the
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Speaker 1: success of their practical joke seriously, pride and foolishness gave
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Speaker 1: way to terror. Stories started to spread about the bones
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Speaker 1: discovered under the Fox residence, about Charles B. Rosna who
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Speaker 1: went missing. Of course, Rosna had never existed, much less
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Speaker 1: been killed and hidden under their childhood bedroom. Working behind
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Speaker 1: closed doors to polish their pranks, the two sisters enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the attention they were getting and were terrified of what
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Speaker 1: might happen if they didn't continue their ruse. The apple
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Speaker 1: on a string bit would not last long, but the
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Speaker 1: girls soon discovered and developed a unique talent that they
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Speaker 1: had in common. Both sisters could make a popping and
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Speaker 1: cracking noises from their ankle and toe joints with little effort.
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Speaker 1: And so they worked at this skill until they could
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Speaker 1: make distinct noises at a loud enough volume while moving,
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Speaker 1: barely enough for anyone to notice. Kate, who was also
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Speaker 1: a widow with an alcohol addiction, confirmed everything Maggie stated.
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Speaker 1: while sitting in the same audience. Leah, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: rolled her eyes and dismissed her sisters as shallow attention seekers,
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Speaker 1: who prioritized their materialistic cravings over morality and truth. But
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Speaker 1: even after the shocking confession, spiritualists have long pointed to
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Speaker 1: Maggie's receipt of $ 1, 500 for the performance of the unmistakable,
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Speaker 1: indiscriminating evidence that she was lying that night, and just
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Speaker 1: concerned with money that she would have needed to buy
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Speaker 1: her next dose of alcohol. Adding to the already very
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Speaker 1: much shakable foundation of spiritualism, Maggie quickly withdrew her confession,
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Speaker 1: since she understood that doing so would simply result in
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Speaker 1: the loss of her only income. By then, Maggie was
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Speaker 1: also a bitter and damaged woman who would depend on
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Speaker 1: the goodwill of friends and acquaintances to have a roof
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Speaker 1: over her head until she passed away in 1895. But
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Speaker 1: she had been an accidental pioneer of spiritualism in an
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Speaker 1: extremely odd manner. You see, she and her sisters have
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Speaker 1: blazed a trail for dozens of other female spiritualists, many
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Speaker 1: of whom gained financial independence, social standing, and a platform
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Speaker 1: for their gifts, personalities, and aspirations. 20 years before comedians
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Speaker 1: started to give female entertainers a new standing in the
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Speaker 1: American popular culture. Obviously, Maggie was not likely to have
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Speaker 1: been proud of that at all. She felt ashamed of
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Speaker 1: her dependency on spiritualism and tarnished by her involvement in
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Speaker 1: it until her final day. Then again, the spiritualist community
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Speaker 1: was most unaffected by her death. There was no memorial
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Speaker 1: seance held in her honor, unlike the one they held
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Speaker 1: for Doyle, and no spirit medium to interpret her soul's message. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: the story of the Fox sisters, like many great ghost stories,
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Speaker 1: has left us with more what-ifs to consider as we
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Speaker 1: confront the ultimate unknown. Basically, the spiritualist movement, a religion
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Speaker 1: that holds that there is a spirit world, and in
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Speaker 1: certain individuals that can communicate with the deceased, was perhaps
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Speaker 1: inspired by the audibility bestowed upon the Fox sisters. As
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Speaker 1: the number of people claiming to be mediums and being
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Speaker 1: able to communicate with the dead has increased over the years,
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Speaker 1: seance has gained in popularity across Europe and the United States.
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Speaker 1: Even Queen Victoria used a medium to communicate with her
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Speaker 1: late husband, Prince Albert. She was enthralled by the practice.
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Speaker 1: Robert James Lees, a 13-year-old medium, is said to have
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Speaker 1: demonstrated his ability to communicate with the dead during a
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Speaker 1: seance by addressing Victoria by a pet name that only
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Speaker 1: Albert would have known. Renowned psychic Lesley Flint also claimed
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Speaker 1: that Victoria communicated with her daughter Beatrice from beyond the grave.
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Speaker 1: So even though the Fox sisters had long since passed away,
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Speaker 1: the apparent commercialization of spiritualism persisted until the 1890s. On
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Speaker 1: the flip side of it all, the Ouija board has
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Speaker 1: also made its round since the late 19th century. In
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Speaker 1: the 1890s, it is most frequently connected to the spiritualist movement.
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Speaker 1: Although the Fox sisters did not invent or use the
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Speaker 1: Ouija board directly, their actions helped fuel the growing interest
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Speaker 1: in spiritualism at the time. giving Charles Kennard this sense
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Speaker 1: of purpose that maybe the sisters lacked. Now, for those
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Speaker 1: of you who are unaware, the Ouija board's idea was
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Speaker 1: to give people a way to communicate with the ghosts
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Speaker 1: by using a planchette to write messages on the board
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Speaker 1: that was covered in numbers and letters. It gained popularity
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Speaker 1: as a conversational game. See, Charles Kennard was neither the
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Speaker 1: best nor the luckiest businessman, but he was always looking
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Speaker 1: for ways to earn a profit. He didn't seem to
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Speaker 1: be the most honest person either. After seeing some initial success,
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Speaker 1: a combination of debt, competition, and drought forced his Chesterton
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Speaker 1: factory to go to auction. Yet everything was not lost.
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Speaker 1: A German immigrant with the name of EC in Chestertown's
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Speaker 1: small business center, Riesch maintained an office on the first
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Speaker 1: level of a 40-story wood-framed hotel next to Kennard's. Riesch
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Speaker 1: was an eager tinkerer and had been a furniture maker,
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Speaker 1: coffin maker, and undertaker. Not an unusual job or path
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Speaker 1: in the times. But it was Kennard who had other ideas.
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Speaker 1: Newspaper articles concerning a talking board craze that was taking
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Speaker 1: over Ohio during the time. One such article was published
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Speaker 1: by the Associated Press and appeared to be on the
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Speaker 1: local Kent County News. Around this same time period, another
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Speaker 1: Baltimore American report claims that Kennard and Reich started working together,
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Speaker 1: creating at least a dozen of their own talking boards,
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Speaker 1: possibly as a result of the AP article piece. And
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Speaker 1: after multiple rejections and no investment at first, Elijah Bond,
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Speaker 1: a local attorney who believed his sister-in-law was a strong medium,
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Speaker 1: finally expressed some interest. Soon after, the Kennard Novelty Company,
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Speaker 1: which was founded 125 years ago on Halloween, started producing
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Speaker 1: Ouija boards in a manner largely similar to what they
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Speaker 1: are now. Bond was also correct about his sister-in-law, Helen Peters,
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Speaker 1: who was able to persuade the U.S. Patent Office to
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Speaker 1: accept Kennard's new talking board compellingly. She receives recognition on
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Speaker 1: both receiving the O-U-I-G-A name and the board itself, which
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Speaker 1: informed by her that the weird term actually signifies the
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Speaker 1: word good luck, and for obtaining the federal government seal
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Speaker 1: of legality, attesting to the board's delivery as promised. It's
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Speaker 1: true that Kennard, an undertaker and businessman, created the only
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Speaker 1: patented board game that has even outsold Monopoly in a
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Speaker 1: single year. The game was marketed as a magical oracle
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Speaker 1: for communication with the dead, as well as a healthy
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Speaker 1: form of entertainment. As we all know, don't do that.
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Speaker 1: But the narrative of the Ouija board goes beyond a
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Speaker 1: tale of snake oil merchants and manipulating the Victorian public,
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Speaker 1: or later on an instant game played at a million
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Speaker 1: sleepovers for junior high students. Although it's still a surprisingly
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Speaker 1: persistent pop culture phenomenon linked to the emergence of horror
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Speaker 1: films and the paranormal industrial complex, it's a narrative that
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Speaker 1: also explores the history of psychology. the advancement of neuroscience,
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Speaker 1: and the universal yearning to discover the answers to life's
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Speaker 1: most important questions. And honestly, it has always been a
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Speaker 1: board game. Or a parlor game. But for some individuals,
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Speaker 1: it has been more than that. Like to me. You
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Speaker 1: all know how I feel about the Ouija board. Some
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Speaker 1: of you think it's a fun game. Anything that helps
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Speaker 1: you connect to the other side can be dangerous. So
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Speaker 1: I'll always warn against it. But back in time, people
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Speaker 1: thought a lot differently. You see, people's views on dying
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Speaker 1: in the 19th century were very different from ours. They
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Speaker 1: were far more in line with daily experiences. These days
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Speaker 1: we make every effort to delay aging, much less entertain
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Speaker 1: genuine thoughts of passing away. Yet the average lifespan in
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Speaker 1: the 1800s was only 50 years old, where six of
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Speaker 1: the 12 children that mothers had would pass away. So
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Speaker 1: it should come as no surprise that Ouija's origin narrative
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Speaker 1: contains a few dark corners. And why not? When money's involved,
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Speaker 1: there's always going to be some element of it. And
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Speaker 1: by the early 1890s, over 2,000 Ouija boards were being
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Speaker 1: sold every single week. Not to forget, after this, his
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Speaker 1: brother was fired from the company. William Fould, who had
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Speaker 1: worked for and invested in the Kennard Novelty Company, finally
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Speaker 1: took over the Ouija business after its founder crashed out
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Speaker 1: too soon. Fould went on to make millions of dollars
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Speaker 1: producing the board in Baltimore and other locations. Tragically, William
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Speaker 1: Fould would also experience a terrible accident at his Hartford
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Speaker 1: Avenue business. which he claimed the Ouija board had instructed
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Speaker 1: him to build in 1919. He was supervising the placement
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Speaker 1: of a flag when the iron railing came away, causing
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Speaker 1: him to tumble off the building's roof, which is still
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Speaker 1: intact and is now a complex of senior apartments. While
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Speaker 1: he was dying with a shattered rib that had penetrated
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Speaker 1: his heart, he vowed to his children that they would
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Speaker 1: never betray the family by selling them out to the Ouija. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: Fold's family did sell, but not for 40 years, to
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Speaker 1: Parker Brothers, who swiftly relocated Ouija to its headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Speaker 1: In 1967, the company sold 2 million boards in its
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Speaker 1: inaugural year in the town that's known for its witch trials. Yet,
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Speaker 1: when the Kennard Novelty Company, the first makers of the
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Speaker 1: Ouija board, were founded, nobody had the intention of opening
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Speaker 1: the gates of hell. Rather, their main goal was to
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Speaker 1: open American wallets, just as it was for the Fox
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Speaker 1: sisters when they originally started. But, Regardless of what transpired
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Speaker 1: over the course taken by the Fox sisters, we remain
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Speaker 1: fascinated with the idea of communicating with ghosts through Ouija boards,
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Speaker 1: watching spooky films, and sharing ghost stories. Whether or not
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Speaker 1: you believe in ghosts, you know I believe. You all
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Speaker 1: know I have seen and heard things that I will
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Speaker 1: never be able to explain. Communicating with the spirit world
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Speaker 1: is a serious task. You should always be in the
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Speaker 1: right state of mind and protect yourself. Because that cute
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Speaker 1: little girl ghost talking to you is rarely a cute
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Speaker 1: little girl ghost. If given the chance, would you ever
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Speaker 1: try to tap into the world of the unknown? Let
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Speaker 1: me know in the comments below. And for more such
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Speaker 1: Boo Crew. Doyle also believed... Doyle also believed in... Doyle...
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Speaker 1: I don't know the word. Doyle also believed in telepathy. Telepathy.
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Speaker 1: okay scroll down telepathy telepathy okay is this a thing
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Speaker 1: for you to do you just practice makes perfect bitch
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Speaker 1: let's go okay but where was the truth and when
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Speaker 1: did it bleed into what we now call spiritualism