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Tracy Murphy

Tracy Murphy

Executive Director of Historic Palmyra Museums and historian/caretaker of the Fox Sisters' Hydesville Memorial Park in Newark, NY.

Oct 28, 2026

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Mm-hmm.
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which is crazy.
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But for her 130th birthday, we had a private seance with 10 guests and a medium.
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And we did it in the dining room and we had her picture on the table.
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We asked her to come forward.
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And she did in a big way.
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She moved the table for 16 seconds.
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In terms of her spiritualist beliefs, how do you feel that she brought those into her everyday life or regular life?
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And Tracy, where are we? We
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are standing at the original home of Leah Fox.
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This is her second home after she was asked to leave the first home.
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But this is where her house would have stood when Kate and Maggie were living with her here in Rochester.
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also the site of the first Plymouth Spiritualist Church because there is a second church.
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It was moved to another location.
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But the obelisk is here and this is so impressive and so incredible.
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It has the addresses so that you can visit these Rochester sites yourself.
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that
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he believed in all the magical powers in this property.
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And I think that says a lot for a man who lived in Canada and just showed up here one day and said, looks like a good place to build a house.
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and that's not just anyhow but not just anyhow yeah the replica cottage so you know i think that says a lot about him and his uh for sure his eccentricities what should we focus on next uh well i have this is interesting here um when people come in they can see things that have actually been found on the property um unfortunately Around 1905, the property was being used as a junkyard on the north end.
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So a lot of this was found down on the north end.
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I have a friend that lives up the road, Christine, and she would come down and say, would you mind? She's very respectful.
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She doesn't leave big holes or you know things in the grass and then once she started accumulating some stuff she built this little shadow box so to speak for us to be displayed down here and then this is a special letter that this is a very special letter that uh kate fox wrote to amy post Oh, yes, Isaac and Amy

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