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Mystery of the Eddy Brothers
Mystery of the Eddy Brothers
Written By Mister Gu on Friday, March 22, 2013 | 4:43 PM
During the 1800s, brothers William and Horatio Eddy were famous mediums who, while apparently in trances, supposedly could summon spirits. They were said to be descended from a woman who, in 1692, was burned as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. When they displayed psychic gifts as young children, their father beat them in an attempt to get them to stop. When this failed, he sent them to work in a