Leo L. Martello

Leo Martello was born in Massachusetts, the son of a Sicilian immigrant father. His parents divorced when he was very young, and he was placed in a Catholic boarding school. He claimed to have had many psychic experiences as a child. In his early teens, he began to study palmistry and tarot with a Gypsy woman. He went on to become a hypnotist and graphologist as well. At the age of sixteen, he began making radio appearances, giving handwriting analyses, …