Lisa drops into the cabin with a Halloween tale ... the story of Pearl Curran, a woman who channelled a spirit calling herself 'Patience Worth.' As Patience, Pearl wrote books that gave her a new life among the literati, and eventually adopted a child who she raised as Patience herself.

Sources:

The Case Of Patience Worth, L. Gilman, 1916

The Patience of Pearl: Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran, Daniel B. Shea, 2012

Ghostwriter and Ghost by Ed Simon, Public Domain Review

Patience Worth, A Psychic Mystery, Caspar S. Yost, 1916

The Case Of Patience Worth: A Critical Study Of Certain Unusual Phenomena, Walter Franklin Prince, 1927

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