Blog categorized as Fox Sisters

Newark, without airplanes

2011-04-25 09:55 AM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
Modern Spiritualism was discovered by the Fox Sisters on March 31, 1848. They lived in a small cottage and communicated with Charles B. Rosna, the spirit of a peddler who was murdered in the cottage. Here is a nice little article about it. The cottage was in Hydesville, NY, which is now Newark, NY....

The House in Hydesville

2009-02-19 01:28 AM - By Joe Loffredo - Comment(s)
The Fox sisters lived in a small cottage in Hydesville, which is a very small town that is Southeast of Rochester, New York (US). They heard spirit raps in the cottage, and learned how to communicate with the spirit there, who was a peddler who had been murdered in the house years before.  The ...

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