Chauncey

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C. Chauncey Burr, editor of the Nineteenth Century Review, and his brother, Heman, fell into this category of enraged skeptics.

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Audiences paid to hear Heman loudly crack his big toe inside his boot while Chauncey accused the “Rochester girls” of creating fake spirit rappings using the same method.

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Using Chauncey’s notes, Heman Burr also wrote a pamphlet titled Knocks for the Knocking, describing the investigation of “more than fifty” mediums, specifically naming the “Rochester Rappings.”

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As Chauncey Burr continued a lecture tour west into Cleveland, Ohio, he readied Ruth’s blockbuster confession for release.

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In his Cleveland lectures, Chauncey Burr called Leah, a mother and a Spiritualist, “a woman of notoriously bad character.”

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