![]() ![]() Next, she asked it to tell the neighbor’s age thirty-three distinct raps followed. “Count fifteen,” she commanded, and the mysterious presence obeyed. “Now count five,” she ordered, and the room shook with the sound of five heavy thuds. While Maggie and Kate huddled together on their bed, their mother, Margaret, began the demonstration. The neighbor, skeptical, came to see for herself, joining the girls in the small chamber they shared with their parents. Every night around bedtime, they said, they heard a series of raps on the walls and furniture-raps that seemed to manifest with a peculiar, otherworldly intelligence. ![]() On a late March day in 1848, Margaretta “Maggie” Fox, 14, and Kate, her 11-year-old sister, waylaid a neighbor, eager to share an odd and frightening phenomenon. One of the greatest religious movements of the 19 th century began in the bedroom of two young girls living in a farmhouse in Hydesville, New York. ![]()
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