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Rose Mackenberg: The Spook Spy

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The Female Ghost Buster Who Rooted Out Spiritual Fraud for Houdini | Atlas Obscura
How Rose Mackenberg took on phantoms and fakes.

Rose Mackenberg became one of Houdini’s trusted “secret service” detail, who’d secretly arrive ahead of him to quietly infiltrate and investigate the local Spiritualist scene to gather evidence of fraud.

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