The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-28

Eddy, was the mother of the Eddy
children William H. and Horatio
'G.-whose mediumistic accom-
plishments first aroused comment
from the greatest newspapers in
this country and England.
The Chittenden of today has for
gotten the exploits of the Eddy
family. About the only reminder
of this sturdy Scotch Woman
mother of two OF the greatest fax
ers history has recorded, William
and Horatio Eddy-is a moss
covered gravestone standing aslant
a mound in a deserted burial place.
At the top of the stone, carved
in concave oval, is a hand with
the index finger pointing skyward
and above are the words, Our
Mother" Beneath the pointing
hand is the inscription: Julia A.
Eddy, wife of Zephaniah Eddy.
Entered the world of spirits Dec.
10Th, aged 50 years, 9 months and
% days.
Though Zephaniah and his
spouse long ago made their jour
ney into that land from which mo
traveller returns" the story of how
these simple country folks duped
the world of believers in things
supernatural will remain as one of
the most colossal and successful
schemes to comn.ercialize spirit
ualism.
Mary Ellen Mach onald Of Anti
gonish, N. S., is, to use the slang
of today RANK amatcur-if she as
the ghost on reported by the gsy-t
chic sleuth who investigated the
conditions i'm her home
compared with the Eddys.
Mary Ellen is not credited with
high mentality. But the Eddy
"boys" possessed the keenest of in
tellects and, according to old-tim-l
ers, invited the skeptics to investi-l
gate their "powers."
To narrate a hundredth part of
the story Of the Eddys, and how
the boys travelled over the greater!
part of the world giving seances,
for the coin of whatever realm
they happened to be in, puts the
Ghost Of Antagonist and the,
spectres that have from time to
time during the last 10 centuries
annoyed royal families of Europe
in what the sporting fraternity
terms the category of 'pikers."
Students of the occult who have
delved deep in the tales of theYog-I
isWara and Peruvian sorcerers and
of Zilto, the necromancer of the
court Of King Wenceslaus, have
found nothing that would make the
Eddy family third-raters in the
ghost business-industry, it could
have been termed in the late 40's.i
There are toothless men and wo-
men, impaired of hearing and sight
who will recollect the visit to Hon
to's cave that night of brilliant
moonlight on May "a, 1874, after,
Mother Eddy had ioulneyed from
land of the living and left the en-
tire ghost business of Chittenden
in the hands of her highly comnet-
ent sons.
Rutland had at least two repre-.
sentatives that held down one end
of the primitive split log seat that
accommodated the party on that
eerie occasion.
The scene of that manifestation.
the cameraman today.
would call Closeup" of a ghost
was in a shadow in the bottom of
a ravine and the "cave-about the
only thing that was not faxed in
connection with the affair-was
merely two large fragments of
rocks in such position as to make
a sort of canopy TO the nocturnal
antics of wraithS
While tremors agitated the
spines of the men and women out
there in the open that cool May
night, there suddclly appeared the
ghost of Santum, a dead redsHin,
and a few moments later the In
dian'S squaw, who had gone to the
happy hunting grounds, appeared.
Ghost ,Santum posed on the top.
of the rock againt the skyline Wis
ion of those on the rail and, as he
himself against the
moon spaneled and star-neckcd
clouds, stock in the Eddy ghost
promotion project went up as fast