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In the 1870s. the Eddy brothers staged a popular spiritualist spectacle at their Vermont home in the 1870s. The reports of their spirit variety show made them well-known throughout the Northeast and brought lawyer/reporter/assassination investigator Henry Steel Olcott to investigate them; his stories attracted the attention of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy; she made her way up to Vermont and took over their spiritual cavalcade, summoning a whole different class of spirits included Egyptian jugglers, Russian folk singers, and horrific spiritual beings that butchered one another and tossed the body parts across the stage to the shock of the audience. Join historian for this enlightening and entertaining exploration of spiritualism, the incredible life of Henry Steel Olcott, and the rock-star like emergence of Madame Blavatsky onto the world stage.