Author: Stacy Horn

I've written six non-fiction books, the most recent is Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York.

Trumpet Mediums

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When I first scanned this photograph at the Rhine Research Center I had no idea what was going on in the picture (aside from all the ectoplasm). I found out a day or two later. This guy is what’s called a “trumpet medium.” The dead spoke via a trumpet. A trumpet. Wait, is there there some sort of religious significance here? Anyway, at one time there were a bunch of mediums call trumpet mediums. (It’s just a little phallic too, isn’t it?) This particular trumpet medium is Ed Moore.

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Mother of GOD

I just figured out that at the rate I am going through these boxes, I will be here another three months, which I CANNOT DO.

How do I figure out this puzzle??

I can’t stay another three months.
I’m pretty much going as fast as I can.

Thinking, thinking, thinking, solutions welcome. Forgive me for the cliched image, but I don’t have a picture of me trying to rip my own head off. Speaking of the Scream, did they ever get this painting back?

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