Good evening everyone. Can anyone hear me well . Good. I am mary mclaughlin, a program coded with the Smithsonian Associates and i like to welcome you to what is promised to be very perfect halloween evening on the crucible of the victorian surgery. Before we begin risley like us everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. Im also like to let you know that this program is being filled by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if youve enjoyed tonight program and would like it again, or if you think your friend like to see it, you should check over the next few weeks cspan and see if it is up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker doctor lindsey fitzharris. She tells me as a little girl shes to drag her grandmother trump cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. So some thought she was obsessed with death from
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