Rachel Wilson

This lady sold fake cancer cures.

She was wanted in like four different states.

For selling fake cancer cures to dying people and scamming them out of their money.

And by pushing suffrage, she got a lot of people to fund her and give her money.

And one of them was Cornelius Vanderbilt.

And she would pretend to be able to contact the dead.

She would say she could contact like ancient Greeks and and all these spirits like the spirit of Abraham Lincoln was coming to her in dreams and stuff.

I don't think Cornelius believed that at all.

But what he did know about her was that she did run a prostitution ring and all her friends were hookers who worked the Wall Street gentlemen.

And so she basically had a spy network of prostitutes who would give her insider trading information.

He used that to game the stock market on the first Black Friday.

I think it was like 1889 for today's equivalent of 26 million dollars, according to The New York Times.

And when The New York Times interviewed him and said, how did you do?

How did you come out?

Twenty six million at the time was one point three.

But today's money, 26 million.

How did you pull this off when everybody else has just lost their ass?

And he said, do as I do.

Consult the spirits.

So he said that this woman had contacted the dead and given him the tip that way.