Posts tagged
‘seances’

Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea A vanished roll of silk mysteriously reappears–had it been captured by Charles Fort’s Super-Sargasso Sea?

Mr. Henderson Teleports Mr. Alexander Henderson, photographer, teleports at a séance with the famous levitating Mrs. Guppy.

Too Much Prudence – Spirit Weddings A very prudent man thinks he can save trouble and money by marrying a spirit bride.

Hints to Séance-room Investigators who want to torture mediums in their quest of Spiritualist Truth.

Mrs Guppy the Snow Queen Mrs Guppy was not only apport queen of the seance room, on several occasions she proved herself a snow queen with seance snow-falls.

“Attend, ye braves!” Shakespeare Speaks from the Beyond If you have tears, prepare to shed them now…Today we look at some of the post-mortem communications purporting to come from Shakespeare. Hard on the heels of 19th-century “Bardolotry” came the Spiritualists, who couldn’t leave his bones undisturbed, but summoned the departed Bard from the vasty deeps to channel wit, wisdom, poetry, plays and unmitigated blather.

The notion that ghosts are demons is not a new one. Here a noted spiritual leader, Wilbur Glenn Voliva and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, go head-to-head about the nature of ghosts, demons, and Spiritualism.

A Table Tipped by the Messiah Himself: The Geneva Enthusiasts What made a group of intelligent, religious, and wealthy people turn their destiny over to a table-tipping charlatan? Daniel Dunglas Home calls the kettle black.