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Criminal

Ghost Racket Crusade

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The story of two famous friends — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini — and the disagreement that ended their friendship: can we speak to the dead? Read Rose Mackenberg's essays in Tony Wolf's book, Houdini's Girl Detective: The Real-Life Ghost-Busting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.0

In the summer of 1922, two of the most famous men in the world went on a vacation together with their families in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Hudini.

0:44.0

Harry Hudini taught Arthur Conan Doyle's sons

0:47.0

how to dive and float in the hotel pool.

0:51.0

Conan Doyle was visiting America from England. He later wrote that he didn't know how to describe

0:57.5

Atlantic City because we have nothing in England at all like it.

1:03.8

He wrote about swimming in the ocean like it was an out-of-body experience, saying it was the

1:09.5

nearest to detachment from Earth that normal life can give.

1:14.4

He was 63.

1:15.9

Hudini was 48.

1:19.0

Arthur Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, everyone called her Lady Doyle, invited Houdini to a private seance in their

1:26.8

hotel room, just the three of them, sitting at a round table in a dark room.

1:33.0

Sir Arthur Conndoor's wife was an amateur psychographer and that is someone who believes

1:41.0

that they can channel the messages of spirits through automatic writing.

1:45.8

So a Psychographer would enter a trance state and then begin to Whodini later wrote that Lady Doyle took a pencil and with spasmodic jerks of her right hand

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