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A Good Thing to Die By [medium Mary Ann Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt]
Description
This one has it all: the afterlife, encyclopedia salesmen, evil stepmothers, Kickapoo princesses, New Yorkers with more money than sense, the Empress Alexandra, bigamy and fraud, ghost farts and spirit chickens.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-good-thing-to-die-by/
Key sources for this episode include Mary E. Cadwallader's "Mary S. Vanderbilt: A Twentieth Century Seer", Mira Ptacin's "The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna", Phineas T. Barnum's "Humbugs of the World", and contemporary newspaper reports.
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Ghost Church: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-ghost-church-by-jamie-lof-95721611/
Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/
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