Tag: Henry Olcott
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A spirited story of the psychic and the Colonel
from alpheus.org: On a warm autumn afternoon in 1874, Henry Steel Olcott, an attorney and popular New York journalist, found himself in Vermont looking for ghosts. On assignment for his newspaper, he planned to investigate one of the séances, or “spook shops,” that were then enjoying a surge of popularity across America. Olcott’s credentials as…