The Mysterious Case of Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma

Mollie Fancher was a young woman who lived in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 19th and early 20th century. She became famous for her claim of surviving without food or water for 14 years, as well as for her alleged psychic abilities and stigmata. Her story fascinated and divided the public, as well as the medical and scientific community. She spent 50 years in bed, during much of that time she appeared to be blind, paralyzed, and helpless. She could find lost articles by divination, could describe the dress and demeanor of some friend or relative in some distant…