Something breaks the silence

reading an old book & sipping red tea

and her rotten reputation around town

Never dip oxidized jewelry in silver cleaning solution

Strange occurrences plagued the Stirling family estate until Muriel Stirling discovered a mystical

When We Spoke to the Dead by Ilise S. Carter (Paperback) spirits Something breaks the silenceGhosts spoke. Women listened. Everything changed. It began with whispers in a dimly lit room. In the 1840s, the Fox Sistersand the legions of mediums they inspiredignited the Spiritualist movement that swept through Victorian parlors and presidential campaigns alike. Contacting the dead wasn't merely a parlor trick: It was a political statement, a declaration of self that still echoes. Sances attracted suffragists and scientists, skeptics and