What Ash Kelley has said about Eddy brothers

Kelley said she leaned toward believing the Eddy brothers may have had genuine abilities.

“I kind of think they might have been the real deal”

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Kelley related the legend that the brothers descended from Salem witchcraft convict Mary Bradbury.

“They both descended from a long line of psychics going back to Mary Bradbury”

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Kelley recounted that the brothers' father, unable to rid them of a perceived curse, sold them to a sideshow.

“He couldn't get rid of their curse, so he sold them to a traveling sideshow”

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Kelley recounted L.A. Bigelow's report that a struck match revealed Horatio playing the guitar himself during a seance.

“Mr. Horatio Eddy, the medium, could be distinctly seen in front of the circle, untied with the guitar in his hand, playing it vigorously”

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Kelley said a March 1875 letter by childhood friend D.P. Westcott was the first major blow to the brothers' credibility.

“the first major blow to their credibility came in late March of 1875 in the form of a letter to the editor of the Rutland Daily Globe”

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Kelley argued that the siblings' own conflicts, more than bad press, ended their business.

“it was actually their own interpersonal dynamics that ended up being the final nail in the coffin”

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