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THE SPIRIT TELEGRAPH
After moving to Rochester and giving rapping demonstrations inlarge public halls, the Fox sisters began to charge
admissionto private sittings. The spirits of the departed tapped out incode, soon messages came in from Ben Franklin,
Thomas Paine, Shakespeare, Frances Bacon and many more.
The fame of the Fox sisters and their spirit telegraph rapidly spread across the United States and Europe. Within months
hundreds of mediums from all parts of the world began communicating with the living dead.
In 1888 Margaret Fox traveled to London to take part in seances featuring a new type of materialization which produced a
picture of spirits behind a large luminous paper screen - the figure was usually that of a nude young girl. "They even go so far as to have what they call "spiritual children"! They pretend to something like
the immaculate conception!… there are other seances, where none but the most tried and trusted are admitted, and
where there are shameless goings on that vie with the secret Saturnalia of the Romans. "
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