On March 29th, Niagara Falls, for the first time in recorded history, ceased to flow. No water whatsoever coursed over its fabled rocks.

On March 31st, Kate Fox, the youngest of three daughters in the Fox family, was playing with her toys when knocking was heard within the walls. Kate Fox looked up from her dolls, snapped her fingers together, and proclaimed, “Here, Mr. Splitfoot, do as I do!”
Kate Fox's snapping was promptly answered with a corresponding number of spectral knocks seeming to come from someone trapped within the living room walls.

Hannah Fox, Kate's mother, was in the room at the time. The knocks caused her to drop the book she was reading, terrified by the sounds. Had Mr. Splitfoot answered her daughter? At her mother's urging, Kate repeated the experiment, except this time, she merely mimed the snapping motion without any sound being produced.

Her motions were promptly answered by the correct number of knocks emanating from the living room wall.

Kate turned to her hysterical mother and said, “Mother, it can see as well as hear!”