I was quite excited to spend my monthly Audible credit on this book; what a fascinating idea! I, unfortunately, have returned it to Audible. Each house is well-chosen: the Lemp mansion, for example, as a haunted touchstone in American history and culture...and then debunked as an actual, or at least a full as-known haunting by the author. Chapter after chapter. I hung on until the author stated repeatedly that Spiritualism didn't last, it was dead, it was no longer a thriving practice in the United States. Then I stopped reading. Why? I had reached poor scholarship and research. There is an entire town of Spiritualists who live and work as such, in plain sight, and have done so for years: Lily Dale. Both a documentary and a book are available about Lily Dale, New York, and both are easy to find:
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Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead and HBO Documentaries: No One Dies in Lily Dale