Two Little Girls Made 'Ghost' Sounds with Their Toes, Forty Years Later One of Them Confessed

The modern Western trend of spiritualism is generally traced back to 1848, in a small place called Hydesville, New York. In that house lived two little girls, fourteen-year-old Margaret and eleven-year-old Kate, who said they always heard knocking sounds on the walls at night. They discovered that the sound would answer questions: they clapped their hands, and it knocked the same number of times.

They said the one knocking on the wall was a peddler who had been murdered in that house, his body buried in the cellar. The neighbors all came, asking questions one by one, and the knocking sound answered one by one, answering accurately. The news spread, and soon people came to see, some invited them to hold séances, some bought tickets. The girls' older sister took them to perform everywhere, and within a few years, a large number of mediums appeared across the United States; the American spiritualist movement started this way.

By 1888, Margaret was already in her fifties, impoverished, an alcoholic, and estranged from her sisters. In a crowded theater in New York, she said those knocking sounds were made by them using their toe joints, and she took off her shoes and socks to make the sound on the spot. The audience heard it very clearly.

The following year, she retracted her confession again, saying she was forced by money, that someone paid her to say that. A few years later, she passed away, and no one ever really figured out which time she told the truth.

So to this day, believers say she was forced to recant later, while non-believers say she just finally stopped pretending. Both sides quote her words. In 1904, someone said some bones were found in the wall of that house's cellar, though by then the house was already uninhabited.

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