Home vs. Houdini

The most famous medium in British-American history was the legendary Donald Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume). He was born in Scotland in 1833 and moved to America where his aunt adopted him. As a young boy Home started displaying his amazing psychic powers almost immediately—powers that he often couldn't control. He accurately predicted the death of his mother, but when loud raps were heard in the middle of the night and furniture started moving around with no one in sight, his aunt threw him out of the house. He moved to England in his early twenties, almost immediately became one of the most famous men in the world, but then at the age of forty, he suddenly retired because of failing health, which adversely affected his powers.

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