Post-mortem Patent – An Inventive Spirit Patents a Chopper Introducing Mrs. Ellen Graddon, Spiritualist medium, and inventor–or maybe just channeler of her late husband’s mechanical ideas.
A Minister Tests His Dead Wife’s Spirit One Sunday morning in 1919, Dr. Russell H. Conwell, founder and President of Temple University, stood before his congregation in the pulpit of the Philadelphia Baptist Temple and dropped a bombshell–revealing that his dead wife had visited him repeatedly.
Kate Field and the Letter from Poe Journalist Lilian Whiting claimed that the spirit of her friend Kate Field directed the disposition of a valuable letter from Edgar Allan Poe.
The Mysterious Mirror of Maine On 7 June 1903, Adelia A. Warren, Mrs. Robert Warren, of Bowdoinham, Maine, died. Just six months later, it was reported that Mrs. Warren, a Spiritualist, had returned to try to communicate with the family through a mysterious magical mirror.
Abby Warner’s Christmas Rappings Christmas Eve at St. Timothy’s Church in Massillon, Ohio was anything but a silent night when “rapping medium” Abby Warner and her friends came to admire the Christmas decorations.
Down with Christmas Ghosts; Up with Christmas Fairies! An 1880s rant against unwholesome Christmas ghost story horrors with a surprising suggestion for a supernatural substitute.
