Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.

There was a glow about her.

At least that's what they say when there is a suitor on the horizon, right?

In 1857, despite everything that had happened, Leah was on the cusp of marriage again.

This time though, she was no teenage girl untried by the world.

She was a professional woman, a genuine celebrity in fact.

While other mediums had been played for fools by predatory managers, Leah had stepped in

and taken control of things for her family.

She had fought a lice-shakeane to a standstill when he tried to take Maggie.

Yes, he did convince her sister to give up spiritualism, but Leah convinced him that

a stipend should come her way.

Her experiences had taken her to some of the greatest cities in the nation.

She had navigated unfriendly crowds at gunpoint and held sayances and sitings for some

of America's most respected politicians and ministers.

She had even been married a second time, although that man, Calvin Brown, had died four

years earlier.

So yes, Leah seemed to have done it all, but when the Boston Courier printed their rejection

of spiritualism, their shots hit home.

They hurt.

But Leah took comfort in finding friends on her own side.

If the Boston Courier used their investigations to attack the foxisters, well, a competing

Boston newspaper at the Traveller was there to defend them.

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