The Consumption Letters: Decomposing Correspondence
The Consumption Letters: Decomposing Correspondence: A physician makes the case that the letters of the ill or dead give off the smell of death and decomposition.
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‘psychometry’
The Kniveton Stone
The Kniveton Stone Spook lights lead searchers to a stone marked with mysterious hieroglyphics.
The Wizard of Graphology: Rafael Schermann
An unassuming little man who worked for an insurance company found that he had a strange gift. He had only to touch a writing sample for it to conjure up accurate visions of the person who had written it. Sometimes those visions solved crimes.
Spirit Photography with Onions
Spiritualist Charles Maurice Davies investigates a spirit photographer, later the celebrated Mrs Guppy; and a “Sibyl” with bad breath.
Shell Mischief: A Spiritualist Issues a Warning of Danger from the Sea
Shell Mischief: A Spiritualist Issues a Warning of Danger from the Sea An English Spiritualist performs a number of psychometric experiments in “Shell Mischief” with young ladies in darkened rooms. Of these experiments he wrote: “I draw the special attention of the medical profession to the serious physical injury many delicate persons receive, especially females; from the very common, very natural, and English-like custom of placing specimens of minerals, crystals, and shells upon the sitting-room tables and elsewhere.”