Posted by LC
on 12/2/2007, 10:50 am, in reply to "Fox Sisters -- Paranormal History"
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I really enjoyed your paranormal site and article on the legendary Fox Sisters!
Bigfoot
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: The Fox sisters were young girls when their
: contact with the spirit world began. They
: had moved into a house in Western New York
: where, some time earlier, a man had been
: murdered.
:
: The man had been a peddler who had known the
: lady of the house. She invited him inside,
: and he was never seen alive again. His pack
: and several of his wares, though, were found
: in the house.
:
: The maid who worked in the house at the time
: reports having seen the ghost of the
: peddler, but the Foxes knew nothing about
: this situation when they bought the house …
: and started seeing the ghost.
:
: The girls discovered that they could
: communicate with the spirit by asking him to
: make a series of knocking or rapping sounds
: in response to their questions. It was this
: way that the family determined that a man
: had been murdered in the house and buried in
: the cellar. It wasn’t until after the Foxes
: had been out of the house for years that the
: skeleton and peddler’s pack were discovered
: in the cellar, confirming the story of the
: girls who, by the time of the discovery had
: lived as celebrities and died in shame as
: “frauds.”
:
: The Fox sisters were eventually celebrated
: mistresses of spirit contact, early pioneers
: in the Spiritualist Movement. They toured
: the world for years before people stopped
: believing in their performance. The women
: both had unhappy and unsatisfactory home
: lives, and they eventually confessed, in
: response to public pressure, that they had
: faked the knocking sounds.
:
: They end years for both women were tragic.
: They were reviled among the paranormal and
: spiritualist community. However, before her
: death, Margaret Fox recanted her “confession
: of fraud.” She said that she and her sister
: had not made the noises, and indeed, they
: had not ever been adequately reproduced by
: those who tried to prove their assumed
: trickery.
:
: My friend, Michael Keene, is a filmmaker
: near Rochester who makes short films about
: the history of Western New York. His film,
: “In Search of White Crows,” is about the
: lives and deaths of the Fox sisters. If
: you’re interested in more info, you should
: check out his website at
: www.ad-hoc-productions.com. (The
: illustrations for the films are beautiful!)
:
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