Marching to Shibboleth
a sordid story of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism, and figs
Forty miles north of Chicago lies Zion, IL, a sleepy city with a sordid history of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism... and figs?
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies , People & Places , Series 6
Tags: "Doctor" John Alexander Dowie, "First Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ"
1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition
Ahmadiyya Movement
Australia
Chicago, IL
Christianity
cult
faith healing
Illinois
Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad
New York, NY
Presented by #13
Protestantism
quackery
Sydney, NSW
United Kingdom
United States of America
Published: February 8, 2021
Spirit Princess
one woman, thirty aliases, forty years and too many crimes to count
The greatest and most notorious Spiritualist swindler of all time was a woman from Kentucky who looked a bit like Lola Montez (if you squinted).
Categories: Biography , Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries , Series 3
Tags: "General" Joseph Hubert Diss Debar
"Prince" Michael Keyfor Mills
Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Canada
Catholicism
Chicago, IL
crime
cult
David Livingston Mackay
Detroit, MI
dime museum
Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed "Koresh"
Florida
Fort Myers, FL
Freeman Bernstein
Harmony Society
Illinois
Joseph D. Townsend
Koreshan Unity
London, England
Massachusetts
Michigan
New York, NY
Presented by #13
religion
Spiritualism
Theosophical Society
Theosophy
United Kingdom
Windsor, ON
Published: March 23, 2020