True Hauntings is a frightfully good production.

In 1924, the pretty wife of a distinguished Boston surgeon came to embody a raging national debate over the values of

the spiritualism movement, which was devoted to communication with the dead.

Newspapers dubbed her the blonde witch of Lyme Street, but she was known to her followers

simply as Marjorie. Some called her a mystic and some called her a fraud.

But this is a story of a woman who has also been called one of the most powerful mediums ever.

Hi, I'm Renata. And I'm Anne. And in this episode of the True Hauntings podcast, we investigate

the life of Marjorie Crandon.

Who was she? And what did she do to cause such a controversy?

Anne and Renata have been investigating paranormal occurrences for the past 20 years.

They have been at the center of various unexplained phenomena and have witnessed countless

ghostly experiences.

The duo now turned to high-profile cases that have attracted the eyes of the world.

Between the dimensions we see and the dimensions we don't, supernatural forces are at play.

Evil lurks within the shadows of our homes and in the darkest corners of our minds.

It follows us like a shadow, forever.

This is where nightmares become reality.

This is true hauntings.

Early in the March of 1923, a charming, pretty upper-class Bostonite named Mina Crandon went to her first seance.

She did it on a whim, almost as a joke,

deciding to go while still out on her customary horse ride with her friend Kitty.

Thus Mina found herself in a spiritualist minister's study in the middle of the afternoon,

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