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This audio original from the acclaimed author of American Sherlock and the host of multiple truecrime podcasts including Wicked Words tells the fascinating story of the supernatural and the club that united some of the worlds most illustrious thinkers

For more than a century some of the worlds most important thinkers and leadersmen like Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeatsgathered once a month and discussed the supernatural at The Ghost Club in London In the early 1900s the clubs chairman was Harry Price the worlds most wellknown ghost hunter He and other members like Harry Houdini sought to debunk the charlatans who preyed on vulnerable people with fake seances tarot readings and spiritual encounters

Price went to war with other researchers as well as fake mediums like the witch Helen Duncan Prices dramatic confrontation with Duncan during one of her seances ended with her arrestshe would be the last person in Europe ever tried under the Witch Act

But Prices bestknown case and largest experiment was the year he spent living in the Borley Rectory in southeast England Price was determined to prove or disprove the existence of poltergeists in the famed rectory using gadgets that many looked at with mistrust Prices conclusions would solidify both his reputation as the worlds greatest ghost hunter as well as the Borley Rectorys designation as the most haunted house in England

The legends of The Ghost Club and the Borley Rectory still endure one hundred years later ripe for fresh investigation