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Mary Roff. According to Stevens and Hodgson, Vennum allowed Mary Roff to possess her body for about fifteen weeks during which time she could allegedly recognize all Roff's friends and relatives, was familiar with all of the objects in the Roff home, and could retell incidents and stories from Roff's childhood and her past life.
On the day of Mary Roff's death, Lurancy Vennum was a fifteen-month-old baby living on her parents' farm in Iowa. She had been born Mary Lurancy Vennum, on 16 April 1864, at Milford Township, Iroquois Co, Illinois.
By the winter of 1878, Asa Roff had become a devout follower of Spiritualism and believed that Mary had not been insane — she had been a gifted, but misunderstood, spirit medium. He begged the Vennum family not to send Lurancy away.
4 Απρ 2015 · On the morning of July 5, 1865, while her parents were visiting and after she enjoyed a large breakfast, Mary Roff fell asleep on her bed. She awakened a few minutes later, screamed and died. Six years later, in 1871, the Vennum family moved to the other side of Watseka from the Roff house.
9 Οκτ 2016 · Whether it was the effects of mental illness, an undiagnosed sleep disorder, or an actual case of possession, Mary "Lurancy" Vennum was thrust onto a national stage by true believers who were convinced that she had special powers to talk to the dead.
In 1865, at the age of nineteen, a girl named Mary Roff who was mentally ill died in Watseka, Illinois. Thirteen years later, another Watseka girl, Lurancy Vennum, almost a stranger to the Roff family, became similarly afflicted. Stevens diagnosed her case as an obsession. In the hypnotic state, Vennum confirmed the diagnosis.
31 Μαρ 2017 · Lurancy’s parents begrudgingly allowed the girl to be mesmerized, and she began speaking as two spirits–an older woman named Katrina Hogan and recent Watseka suicide victim Willie Canning. After an hour, though, the girl tossed her arms up and collapsed, allowing in a gentler spirit: Mary Roff.
