by Jean Schiffman San Francisco Arts Monthly September 2011 Vol. 21 No. 3 Seances were held; novels, poems, short stories and plays were published, all of which were supposedly dictated by the garrulous Patience, a 17th-century English immigrant to America. (No proof was ever found that such a person existed.) Pearl and her husband, John… Continue reading The Mysterious Tale of Patience Worth

In July 1913, St. Louis housewife Pearl Curran began boggling minds the world over.  While dabbling with a Ouija board at her apartment at 6031 Kingsbury Avenue, Pearl inadvertently summoned the spirit of long-dead Patience Worth. Patience, per Pearl, had come from England to America in the 1600s, where she'd had the bad fortune to… Continue reading Pearl Curran & Patience Worth