10/06/2026
🍂 The Fox Sisters: Not Everything in October Has to Be Spooky! 🍂
October may be filled with ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night—but the story of the Fox Sisters is about much more than being spooky.
Maggie and Kate Fox grew up in Hydesville, New York. In 1848, mysterious “rappings” in their family home helped launch a movement that would become known around the world as Modern Spiritualism.
But behind the famous story were two real young women whose lives became anything but ordinary. They traveled, appeared before large audiences, met fascinating people, experienced fame and controversy, married, raised families, and spent much of their lives connected to a movement they helped create. Their story is filled with history, mystery, family, fame, tragedy, and unanswered questions—and you don’t have to believe in ghosts to find it fascinating.
This October, instead of asking, “Were the Fox Sisters spooky?” maybe ask: How did two young sisters from a tiny community in Upstate NY become part of a story that was heard around the world?
Come for the mystery. Stay for the history.
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