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Episode 17: Jap Herron and Mark Twain's Ghost

December 07, 2020 by Keri Schroeder

In 1917, Mark Twain published a new novella titled “Jap Herron” about a young man from Missouri who left town to become a printers devil for a local newspaper. The weird part about all of this? Mark Twain died in 1910. The novel Jap Herron was purportedly transmitted entirely via Ouija board to writer Emily Grant Hutchings and her psychic medium partner, Lola V. Hays.

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December 07, 2020 /Keri Schroeder
mark twain, jap herron, emily grant hutchings, oujia board, spirit board, ghosts, books written by ghosts, weird history, book history
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