High Rock Hill, located in Lynn, Massachusetts, was once a hotspot for a rather strange occurrence related to the 19th-century Spiritualist movement. The area was once owned by the renowned Hutchinson family, who had built cottages on the land in the 1840s for various travelers and visitors. One cottage still remains to this day. The current stone observation tower, built in 1904, was once the spot where a wooden tower once stood which was built between 1847-1848. One visitor, John Murray Spear, had broken away from the Universalist church to pursue Spiritualism. He gained a small following on the premise that they build a machine that could ‘change the world’ which was on the behest of a group of spirits Spear called the “Association of Electricizers”. After slight progress was made with supposed energy from a pregnant follower, Spear moved his operation to Randolph, New York due to dwindling patronage. In New York, the machine was destroyed, supposedly by an angry mob (but some theorize that Spear did it himself). More details of the story can be read here.
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