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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
(Birmingham and Eisenberg),
199
–200

Innis, Roy,
240

Invited, The
(movie directed by McKinney),
11

It
(King),
243

Jackson, Josiah,
37
,
38
,
40
,
42
,
57

Jeane Dixon Museum and Library,
205
–7,
222

Jewett, Pliny A.,
49
,
59
–60,
63

Johnson, Curtis,
3

Johnson, William Henry,
92

Judgment Day prediction,
14

Kennedy, John F., assassination,
211
–13

Ketchum, “Black Jack,”
134

King, Stephen,
243

Kluski, Franek,
183

Knee Benders,
267

Knight, Jonathan,
59

Koetpnickger, Mr. (failed suicide victim),
149
,
150

Kokoraleis, Andrew and Thomas,
247
–49

Koreshans,
15

Ku Klux Klan,
232
–36,
238
,
239
,
243
–44,
245

Lahr House hotel (Lafayette, Indiana),
133
–34,
137
–40,
142
,
148
,
153

Lance, Mr. (hotel guest),
139

Lane, Caroline,
28

Lane, Ephraim,
29
,
42
–43,
58
,
60

Lapseritis, Jack “Kewaunee,”
196
–97

Latimer, R. H.,
7

Latter-day Saints movement,
15
,
42

Lefever, Gabe,
161

legend tripping,
66

Leken, Matthew,
130

Liebenstein, Johann Georg,
120

Life of Saint Francis
(Saint Bonaventure),
70

Lifschutz, Joseph E.,
74
–77,
78
–81

Little, Arthur D.,
106
–10

Livingston, Adam,
120
–21,
124
–27,
130
–31

Livingston, Mrs.,
125
–26,
128
–29

Livingston Wizard (Wizard Clip)

exorcism of,
122
–24,
129

phenomena attributed to,
119
,
121
–22,
129
–30

recent claims of activity by,
131

Unknown Stranger and other possible identities,
126
–28

Voice as,
124
–26,
128
–29

Lombroso, Cesare,
53

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
30

Long Island Devil,
266

Louis XI,
262

Lowe, George D.,
96

MacKinnon, A. W.,
6

magical treasure hunting

Ape Canyon story as,
185
–86,
191
–95,
202
–3

dowsing,
187

as evidence of insanity,
190
–91

occult methods and necromancy,
186
–88,
192
–93

popularity of,
165
–66,
186
–87

protection from hostile spirits,
193

treasure guardians,
188
–90,
194
–99,
201

Magnalia Christi Americana
(Mather),
30

Manson Family cult,
64

Manson Women, The
(documentary by Deutsch),
64

Maria de la Visitacion,
77

Maricoxi tribe,
89

Marran, T. Paul,
254
,
263

Martinites,
64
–65

Mather, Cotton,
30

Matthews, Justus Washington,
25
,
35
–41

Matthews, Mehitable (formerly Sanford),
25
,
36

Matthews, Willard,
40

McKinney, Ryan,
11

McSherry, Anastasia,
121

McSherry, Richard,
123

McSherry, William,
126

Medders, Charles J.,
97
,
111
–12

medical experimentation on blacks,
110
,
233
–36,
240
–42,
245

mediumship,
162

Men of Sin (Antichrists)

Gould, Eben,
25
–26,
34

Hunt, Amos,
31
,
32
–35,
54
–56,
62
–64

Matthews, Justus Washington,
25
,
35
–41

murder of,
13
,
17
,
39
–43,
55
,
57
–61,
65

powers and intention,
23
,
37
,
54

Wakeman, Ira,
18
–21,
23
,
24

mental mediums,
162

Messiah craze,
14

metaphysical concept of cosmos,
181
–82

Miller, William/Millerites,
14
,
42

Modrzejewski, Teofil,
183

monster-hunting expedition, Teddy Roosevelt's,
256

Montgomery, Ruth,
216

Moon, Arthur,
146

Moon, James

autodecapitation apparatus,
141
–44,
146
–48,
151

celebrity,
150
–54

coroner's investigation of suicide,
145

deliberate self-decapitation,
136
–39

family history of suicide,
150

insanity,
145
,
152

interest in inventors of death machines,
145
,
150
–51

unsuccessful suicide attempts,
142
,
144

Moon, Mary,
145
,
147
,
150

Moro, Jennie,
1
–2,
5

Moro, Mary,
2
–3,
4
–5,
7
,
11

murder vans,
239
–40

Murk, Justus,
172
–73

Mysterious America
(Coleman),
227

mystical piercing,
23
–24

necromancy,
188
,
192
–93

Negro a Beast, The
(Carroll),
94

Neumann, Therese,
77
–78

Newark, disappearance of blacks in,
244
–45

night doctors,
110
,
233
–36,
241
–42,
245
,
249

Nixon, Richard M.,
220
–21

Nye, Edgar W. “Bill,”
153

O'Day, Captain (policeman),
8

Okefenokee Wild Man,
87
–88,
112
–17

Okolowicz, Norbert,
183

Ostman, Albert,
195

Ouija boards

communication with dead,
3
,
4
–7

denunciation of, and attempts to ban,
9
–10

as drug and disease,
9
–10

as entertainment,
3
,
12

ills attributed to,
3
–4,
8
–9,
12

movie based upon,
11

popular preoccupation with,
3
,
8
–9

Parmalee, Leander,
41
,
59

Patterson, Roger,
178
,
185

Paulos, John Allen,
218

Perkins, Samuel, F.,
46
,
48

Perry, Michael,
180

Peterson, John,
161

phantom clowns.
See
clowns-in-vans

physical mediums,
162

Pillsbury, Stephen M.,
149
,
150

Piltdown Man hoax,
116

Pio of Pietrelcina, Saint,
70

Pocasset Horror murder,
64

poltergeists.
See
Livingston Wizard (Wizard Clip); spirits

racism, scientific,
94
–95,
104

Reagan, Nancy,
215
,
220

Reed, Kasim,
239

Regan, Donald,
215

Ripper Crew (Chicago Rippers),
247
–49

Robertson, Alice,
72
–73,
82

Robertson, Andrew,
72
,
74

Robertson, Cloretta

auditory hallucinations,
76
–77

calmness and detachment concerning bleeding,
72
,
74
,
76

characteristics of stigmata appearances,
68
,
71
–72

fictionalized story about,
84
–85

Jet
magazine article about,
73
–74

medical observations of,
71
–72,
74
–77,
78
–81

normal childhood and family life,
72
,
74
,
75
–76,
84
,
86

religious devotion,
67
–68,
79
,
81

revival meetings,
83
–84

seasonal recurrence of bleeding,
82
,
83
–84

Roe, William,
178

Roosevelt, Elliot,
210

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
210

Roosevelt, Teddy,
256

Rountree, Martha,
215
–16

Ryan, Walter,
105

Sables, Abigail,
37
,
42
,
57

Samaritans,
255
–56,
264

Samson, Philip,
47

Sanderson, Ivan,
89
,
177
–78,
195

Sanford, Almeron,
37
,
38
,
39
,
40

Sanford, Charles,
31
,
44
,
45
–53

Sanford, Mehitable (later Matthews),
25
,
36

Sanford, Polly,
35
,
37
–38

Sasquatch.
See
Bigfoot/Sasquatch

Schneck, Robert Damon,
265
–68

Schweinfurth, George Jacob,
15

Scudder, Caleb R.,
145
,
147

Second Great Awakening,
13
–17

Selahtiks,
173
–74

Sharkey, William R.,
10

Sheets, Mrs. Fred,
135

Sheldon, Joseph, Jr.,
57

Silliman, Benjamin,
33

Sisson, Thomas Upton,
114

Sly, Samuel “Sammy”

death,
62

exorcism and murder of Matthews,
37
–40,
41
–42,
57
–61

on Hunt poisoning incident and financial settlement,
32
,
34
,
55
–56

mental deficiency,
18
,
59
,
61

on sects sympathetic to Wakemanites,
56

shared housing with Wakeman,
29
,
31
,
35
,
37

on Ira Wakeman's death,
24

worship and practice of Wakemanism,
25
–27,
30
–31,
55

Smith, Jerome C.,
59
–60

Smith, Joseph, Jr.,
42
,
187
–88,
190

Smith, LeRoy,
161
,
172

Smith, Marion Lefever “Hank,”
161
,
163
–64,
167
,
169
,
170
–71,
193

Snow (preacher),
14

Soldavini, Charles,
2
,
7

Soldavini, Josephine,
2
–3,
7
,
11

Speers, Thomas,
254
,
256
,
263

Sperry, Enoch,
31
,
44
–46,
48
–49,
53

Sperry, Nehemiah,
50

spirits

materializations,
183
–84

in metaphysical concept of cosmos,
181
–82

necromancy,
188
,
192
–93

treasure guardians,
188
–90,
194
–97,
201

treasure-hunting guides,
156
,
162
–65,
193

Spiritualism

basic tenet,
160

emergence and practical application of,
160
–61

mediumship,
162

obsolescence of necromancy practices,
192
–93

practice by Ape Canyon prospectors,
156
,
162
–65,
193

as science,
161
,
165

séance materializations,
183
–84

Spreitzer, Edward,
247
–49

Springheeled Jack figures,
251
,
266

St. Louis World's Fair (1904),
102
–4

Stannard, Mary,
62

Starks, Cloretta.
See
Robertson, Cloretta

stigmata

of Catherine of Siena,
69

forms of,
69

of Francis of Assisi,
69
–70

fraudulent and questionable cases,
77
–78

mental and emotional factors,
75
,
80

in non-Catholics,
70

number of Roman Catholic stigmatics,
70

nurse's observation of,
68

papal guidelines on,
71

of Pio of Pietrelcina,
70

Stillman, T.,
233

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