Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for April 22, 2023

When the spirit moves you.

Seances fell out of favor during the years when the US banned spirits.

Well hey, bud, you just gotta up your game! Do stuff Special Effects can’t possibly do, like Possessions and the far more evil “Wet Willies”… ☺

Tom Edison, the famous thief, who distributed George Melies’s The Astronomers Dream across the US – compensating him nothing.

And before Edison, they were upstaged by Pepper’s Ghost. https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/peppers-ghost-hologram-illusion/

Houdini debunked them all

So we have “Samuel F.B. Morse” but also “Tom Edison.”