CHAPTER III. ROCHESTER 30 My First Knowledge of the Matter--Hasten to Hydesville--Rapping on a Canal Boat--Experiences--Mother Comes to Rochester--Calvin Brown--Devious Route of Projectiles Up-stairs from Cellar to Garret--A Death-knell Sounded all Night on the Keys of a Locked Piano. CHAPTER IV. ROCHESTER (_Continued_) 47 Ventriloquism--"Proclaim these Truths to the World"--The Call for the Alphabet--Voices in Raps--God's Telegraph between the two Worlds--An Eviction--Committee of Five--No Money Accepted--Improper Questions to Spirits--"Done"--Struggle against the "Uncanny Thing"--Benjamin Franklin. CHAPTER V. ROCHESTER (_Continued_), November, 1848 57 Light Articles made Immovable--The Coffins--Adieu of the Spirits--Their Return--First Steps toward Public Investigation--"Hire Corinthian Hall"--First Committee of Investigation--Second--Third or "Infidel" Committee--Behavior of a Great Dining-table--The Tar and Torpedo Mob. CHAPTER VI. MEDIUMISTIC VEIN IN OUR FAMILY 74 Some Family Antecedents--Our Great-grandmother--Phantom Prophetic Funerals--Vision of a Tombstone Nine Years in Advance, etc. CHAPTER VII. MEDIUMISTIC VEIN IN OUR FAMILY (_Continued_) 89 Marvellous Writing by a Baby Medium. CHAPTER VIII. ROCHESTER (_Continued_) 100 "Repeat the Lord's Prayer"--First Money Accepted--Muscular Quakerism--Letter from George Willets--Letter from John E. Robinson--Caution against Consultation of Spirits about Worldly Interests. CHAPTER IX. ALBANY AND TROY. 1850 115 Excursion to Albany--Delavan House and Van Vechten Hall--Rev. Dr. Staats and the Judges--High Class of Minds Interested--President Eliphalet Nott--Pecuniary Arrangements--Excursion to Troy--Trojan Ladies--Mob Attempts on Life of Margaretta. CHAPTER X. NEW YORK. 1850 128 "The Rochester Knockings at Barnum's Hotel"--Hard Work--Our Visitors--A Poisoned Bouquet--Hair of the Emperor Napoleon I.--Hair of John C. Calhoun--Investigation at Residence of Rev. Rufus W. Griswold, by the Leading Literary Celebrities of New York.