Shortly after, in another stunning reversal, they changed their story again and reaffirmed their faith in the spirit world. Yet forty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying that they had ever been in contact with the dead.
Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to seances. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism follows the remarkable story of the Fox sisters, who were catapulted to fame after word spread that they communicated with spirits. Are the children who live there - Kate and Maggie Fox, sisters aged eleven and fourteen - making the raps to trick their parents? Or are the girls mediums for otherworldly messages? From a battery of strange sounds and the excitement they create, modern Spiritualism is born.
Mysterious knocks are heard in a little house in rural New York, throwing the community into turmoil.
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