In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, spiritualism was all the rage across America. People across the country regularly visited so-called psychic mediums to communicate with ghosts. But in 1874, an ardent skeptic of the paranormal heard about a pair of brothers from Vermont, who claimed to be able to conjure the spirits of the dead on their rural farm. What happened next would change that skeptic's life forever.\xa0\nhttps://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast\nNotes:\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/spiritualism/history/history.shtml\nhttps://www.prairieghosts.com/eddy.html\nhttps://www.the-voicebox.com/eddybrothersthe.htm\nMusic:\nDexter Britain, The Tea Party\nhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/\nMyuu, Hopeless, Outsider, Shelter, Identity Crisis, Keep Going, Lost World\nhttps://soundcloud.com/myuu\nNaoya Sakamata, Incident\nhttps://soundcloud.com/naoya-sakamata\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices