福克斯姐妹小屋
Though less well-known than the other haunted places, the Fox Sisters cottage is perhaps the most important haunted house of all, since the phenomena here in many ways set the standard for later hauntings and even launched a religion.
In 1848 Hydesville, western New York, two young sisters named Maggie and Katie Fox began supposedly communicating with the ghost of a murdered peddler. The sisters, in a sort of crude seance, would ask questions of the spirit, who would answer back with mysterious knocks or raps. Many people, including their mother, were amazed at what seemed to be genuine contact with the dead. Both sisters eventually admitted that they had actually faked the sounds--there had been no murdered peddler, it had all been a prank. The women even demonstrated how they had done it. But by then the belief had taken on a life of its own as a religion called Spiritualism, which is still practiced today.
雖然比起其他鬧鬼的地方，福克斯姐妹小屋不是那麼有名，但是因為這裡的鬧鬼的現象，甚至還發起了一個信仰，所以說來它應該是所有鬧鬼的小屋中最有名的那個了吧。在1848年紐約西部的Hydesville， 兩個年輕的女孩子，Maggie和Katie Fox姐妹開始了想像中的和鬼魂對話的招魂術者。這對姐妹，利用一種拙劣的降神會，向靈魂問問題，而靈魂會利用神秘的敲擊聲或叩擊來回答。許多人，包括她們的母親都對這個和死者進行的真實聯繫表示驚訝。姐妹最終承認她們實際上偽造了聲響--根本沒有招魂術者，通通都是騙局。姐妹甚至還演示了她們如何行騙。但是該信仰最終形成了一種教派，叫做招魂說，並流傳至今。 |
