Early Life
The brothers were sons of Zephaniah Eddy and his wife Julia Maccombs, natives of Vermont. Growing up on a small farm near Chittenden, Vermont, both brothers are said to have exhibited strong psychic abilities from an early age. When they dropped into trances, all manner of supernatural occurrences would happen around them. Olcott reported that their father constantly tried to "beat them out of" the trances, but to no avail.
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