Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960) - author, anthropologist and filmmaker. She studied many topics including folklore and wrote a book about Voodoo in Jamaica and Haiti titled Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938).

Catherine Crowe - researcher who brought Poltergeist and Doppelganger into English usage. The Night Side of Nature (book)

Eleanor Sidgwick - the statistician of the paranormal. Phantasms of the Living 

Alexandra David-Néel - the woman who gives us "the Tulpa" as we know it in pop culture

Rose Mackenberg (1892 - 1968) - Houdini's Secret Weapon

Mary Hyre - the journalist behind John Keel's mothman news from Point Pleasant.

Plus many more are covered in the show!  If you get a chance to see Allison give this talk she's an engaging speaker and one of the most upbeat people we've met.
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