Stories of Strange Women - Meet the original ghostbuster: Rose Mackenberg, a private detective who specialised in exposing phony psychics, especially those who preyed on grief-stricken people desperate to communicate with their
![The Dead Ladies Show on Twitter: "When Harry met Rose! The famous magician & the intrepid detective: Harry Houdini & Rose Mackenberg worked together to take down spurious spiritualists & fraudulent mediums. The Dead Ladies Show on Twitter: "When Harry met Rose! The famous magician & the intrepid detective: Harry Houdini & Rose Mackenberg worked together to take down spurious spiritualists & fraudulent mediums.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVutpJHXsAMqwOW.jpg:large)
The Dead Ladies Show on Twitter: "When Harry met Rose! The famous magician & the intrepid detective: Harry Houdini & Rose Mackenberg worked together to take down spurious spiritualists & fraudulent mediums.
![Rose Mackenberg with headscarf - George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs - Digital Collections Rose Mackenberg with headscarf - George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs - Digital Collections](https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/api/singleitem/image/p15037coll3/32886/default.jpg)