Edwart Longstreet Bodin was a mystery writer and founded the "Spiritual Party" as a platform for a run for President of the United States

President of the United States

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 in the 1952

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 presidential election. He claimed in his book Scare Me! to be a descendent of Jean Bodin

Jean Bodin

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. He was a literary agent

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 and mentor

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 to L. Ron Hubbard

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.

Prior to authoring books, Bodin wrote for Strange Stories magazine as "Lucifer" and Thrilling Mystery magazine as "Chakra."

His book Scare Me! addressed ghosts, ectoplasm

Ectoplasm

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, demons, zombies, werewolves and other similar topics. In it, he thanked sixty-eight people, including Arthur J. Burks

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, Jack Dempsey

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, Ruth Lyons

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, Lowell Thomas

Lowell Thomas

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, Nathaniel Schachner, Theodore Tinsley

Theodore Tinsley

Theodore Tinsley was an American author who wrote primarily mystery stories. Tinsley wrote 27 stories featuring The Shadow for "The Shadow Magazine" pulp magazine. He also created Carrie Cashin, one of the first female detectives in pulp fiction, who appeared in Street & Smith's Crimebuster pulp...

, F. Orlin Tremaine

F. Orlin Tremaine

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, Arthur Leo Zagat

Arthur Leo Zagat

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, William B. Ziff and L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard , better known as L. Ron Hubbard , was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology...

. Upper Purgatory covered such subjects as ESP, flying saucers, the afterlife

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, and the Shakespeare authorship question

Shakespeare authorship question

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In 1953, he suggested that if Winston Churchill

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 doublecrossed the United States, the atom bomb should be used to divert the Gulf Stream

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 in order to freeze England

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.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935887,00.html He suggested the same thing two years later in Upper Purgatory, claiming to have received a letter from William E. Bergin, Adjutant General

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 of the United States, treating the idea seriously (pages 17–18). He also suggested the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was due to psychic intervention to prevent America's government from being overrun by Communists (152).

In 1956, Bodin was the President of the Bernarr MacFadden

Bernarr Macfadden

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 Foundation, worth about $5,000,000.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866713,00.html That year he also provided the foreword to a book by Blanche A. Draper, the pastor of "The Church of the Radiant Flame," a woman who worked as a psychic

Psychic

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 and medium

Mediumship

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