"A Strange Story" by Ivan Turgenev

September 07, 2020 00:58:00
"A Strange Story" by Ivan Turgenev
Not Your Mother's Storytime
"A Strange Story" by Ivan Turgenev

Sep 07 2020 | 00:58:00

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Show Notes

Since it is September, and many believe September is not too soon to prepare for Halloween, this story is about a man's encounter with a clairvoyant medium capable of conjuring the dead. Is it a miracle, or explained by the science of magnetism? "There are no dead souls; they are undying and can always appear, when they like.... They are always about us."

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