The world of mystics and psychics throughout history is full of some pretty strange characters. Some of these mysterious people have managed to spin some pretty wild tales and mythologies around them, often making them larger than life and propelling them into legend, with truth and reality hard to separate. One such person was a psychic who went on a journey that brought her both amazing powers and intriguing legends we may never be able to get to the bottom of.
The woman who would come to be known as Madame Blavatsky was born in Ukraine in 1831 under the name Helena Petrovna von Hahn. She was weird from a very young age, constantly claiming to be followed around by invisible friends she called “hunchbacks” and often claiming that she had psychic powers and the ability to lull animals to sleep. Her childhood was mostly spent moving from one place to another, as her aristocratic family were required to move around to a lot to different regions on business. When Blavatsky’s mot