The Fox Sisters - Manufacturing Mr. Splitfoot

Host Lucien Graves examines the Fox Sisters' 1848 Hydesville rappings that launched the Spiritualism movement. Two young girls used cracked toe joints to produce mysterious knocks, convincing millions—including James Fenimore Cooper and Horace Greeley—they were communicating with the dead. A simple deception became America's most successful spiritual fraud, built not on elaborate trickery, but on society's desperate need to believe death wasn't final.

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