Home Mysterious ghost-focused cult existed briefly in West Virginia in the 1850s Mountain Cove Journal, 1852

Mountain Cove Journal, 1852

Spiritualist leader Harris Lake Thomas claimed to converse with spirits—and the apostles.

Image 1 of The Mountain Cove journal and spiritual harbinger (Mountain Cove, Va. [W. Va.]), August 12, 1852

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