The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism

A firsthand memoir recounts a family's emergence at Hydesville into recurrent rapping phenomena and the subsequent spread of mediumship through public demonstrations, committee inquiries, and press debates. The narrative combines chronological episodes of tests and seances, household and private manifestations including sounds, movements of objects, and luminous phenomena, plus correspondence and investigative reports from local and national committees, clergy, and scientists. It documents challenges from mobs and skeptics, notable examinations by public figures, practical cautions about consulting spirits, and the tapering of public practice after marriage, while tracing familial mediumistic antecedents and private experiments.