1. William Buehler Seabrook was an American occultist, explorer, world traveler, journalist and author, born in Westminster, Maryland.
19 Facts About William Seabrook
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William Seabrook is well-known for his writing on, and engaging in, cannibalism.
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William Seabrook then attended Roanoke College where he earned a Bachelor of Philosophy.
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William Seabrook went on to receive a Master of Arts from Newberry College and studied philosophy at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
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In 1908, William Seabrook was hired as a reporter by the Augusta Chronicle and was promoted to the desk of city editor.
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William Seabrook was later a partner with an advertising agency in Atlanta, Georgia.
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In 1915, Seabrook joined the American Field Service of the French Army during World War I He was stationed on the Western Front and served as an ambulance driver at the Battle of Verdun, where he was gassed.
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William Seabrook was later awarded the Croix de Guerre and published an account of his war service in 1917.
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Besides his books, William Seabrook published articles in popular magazines including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and Vanity Fair.
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William Seabrook wrote about his experience of cannibalism in his travel book Jungle Ways; however, he later admitted that the tribe had not allowed him to join in on the ritualistic cannibalism.
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William Seabrook wrote a story based on the experience and to recount the experiment in Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today.
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William Seabrook had a lifelong fascination with the occult, which he witnessed and described firsthand, as documented in The Magic Island, and Jungle Ways.
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William Seabrook later concluded that he had seen nothing that did not have a rational scientific explanation, a theory which he detailed in Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today.
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In December 1933, William Seabrook was committed at his own request and with the help of some of his friends to Bloomingdale, a mental institution in Westchester County, near New York City, for treatment for acute alcoholism.
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William Seabrook remained a patient of the institution until the following July, and in 1935, he published an account of his experience, written as if it were another expedition to a foreign locale.
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William Seabrook married Marjorie Muir Worthington in France in 1935 after they had returned from a trip to Africa on which Seabrook was researching a book.
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William Seabrook later wrote the biography The Strange World of Willie Seabrook, published in 1966.
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On September 20,1945, William Seabrook died by suicide from a drug overdose in Rhinebeck, New York.
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The Abominable Mr William Seabrook is a graphic biography of William Seabrook by Joe Ollmann.