In the 1840s, the Fox Sisters and the Spiritualist movement they sparked transformed séances from parlor tricks into political and personal statements, drawing suffragists, scientists, and skeptics alike. Spiritualism gave women a voice and blurred lines between faith, fraud, feminism, and financial opportunity, attracting figures from Harry Houdini to Victoria Woodhull. In this lecture, Ilise S. Carter—author of When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women their Voice—explores how Spiritualism’s forgotten roots shaped today’s fascination with manifestation and mysticism, tracing how the supernatural evolved from heresy to a powerful social force.