H.H. Furness, the Seybert Commission, and Grilling Mediums

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #067, Part 2

Spiritualism was a belief system that involved communication with the dead.  Philadelphia gentleman Adam Seybert was a true believer and wanted others to believe.  He left money in his will to establish a department at Penn to prove his point.  The committee was headed by Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness and featured many Philadelphia notables.  The real fun started when they interviewed Maggie Fox, one of the founders of spiritualism.  

Researched and read by Patricia Rose