Whitewater, Wisconsin is known as the “Second Salem” based on vague impressions of the Morris Pratt Institute, better known to area residents as “The Spook Temple,” In its day, it was called “The Temple” by local residents, or the “Spook House.” Several of the nation’s top Spiritualists taught at the school, and many leading Spiritualists of the era visited it during its heyday. Constructed with profits made from a psychic revelation provided to founder Morris Pratt, the Institute operated from 1902 to 1939 as the only Spiritualist College in the nation. The story of the school with its triumphs, weddings, deaths, and tragic suicide unfold from the shadows of the past along with the life of Morris Pratt, Moses Hull, Mattie Hull, and A. J. Weaver. Of course the story of Spiritualism runs deeper than the school and many of the celebrated figures including the Fox sisters and Emma Harding Britten are described as well as the unequalled Cora L. V. Scott and Mary Folsom-Hayes. As the dark aspirations of the Golden Dawn and the interactions of detractors such as Harry Houdini are intertwined with the story of Spiritualism, they too merit a place in this book.