Ghosts Counting Oranges In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get the ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 17, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism
and tagged Dr. Isaac Funk , Dutch ghost , Dutch ghost photograph , Ghosts Counting Oranges , James H. Hyslop , James L. Kellogg , Metropolitan Psychical Society , Spiritism , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud , Spiritualist tests , telepathy , W.S. Davis
Playing a Spirit A girl who played a spirit for a famous Spiritualist medium tells All.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 30, 2018
in Crime , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives
and tagged Amanda M. Cowan , mediums , Playing a Spirit , seance room fraud , Spiritualism , Spiritualist confederate , Spiritualist confessions , spiritualist exposure , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist mediums , The Girl Who Played a Spirit , Victorian spiritualism
Too Much Prudence – Spirit Weddings A very prudent man thinks he can save trouble and money by marrying a spirit bride.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 17, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged marrying a ghost , marrying a spirit , mediums , seances , spirit bride , Spiritualism , spiritualist bride , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist wedding , Too Much Prudence , Too Much Prudence - Spirit Weddings
Ordering Special Effects for the Séance Room A dealer in séance room effects and apparatus offers his wares to a materialization medium.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 27, 2016
in Ephemera , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged fake mediums , Frederick Craddock , Frederick George Foster Craddock , materialization mediums , Ordering Special Effects for the Séance Room , seance apparatus , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud
Hints to Séance-room Investigators who want to torture mediums in their quest of Spiritualist Truth.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 19, 2015
in Ephemera , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged fraudulent mediums , seances , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud , testing mediums , torturing mediums , unmasking fake mediums
An account of an elaborate magic mirror apparatus by the Master of the Dime Novel–but was it just a figment of his fertile imagination?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 15, 2015
in Crime , News , Occultism/Magic , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged hoaxes , magic mirror , Ned Buntline , New York underworld , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud
Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings Six methods proposed as explanations for spirit paintings, which were found, freshly painted by spirits, in the seance room.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 10, 2014
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged conjuring , Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings , hoaxes , illusions , magic , spirit painting , spirit portraits , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud
