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Mediumship / MarriottWILLIAMs MARRIOTT EXPOSES Marriott simulates Polish medium Stanislawa Tomczyks levitation of a glass tumbler in full light
ESPERANCEElizabeth Hope, known as Elizabeth d Esperance medium Date: 1855 - 1919
Helen Duncan - Ectoplasm & Teleplasmic handPiece of card showing two undated photographs of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand"
Davenport BrothersIra Davenport on the left, his brother William on the right : preparing to bind them inside their cabinet are Mr Fay and Mr Cooper, who will ensure that no trickery is involved
Einer Nielsen 1921Einer Nielsen, Danish medium, producing ectoplasm at Oslo
Goligher EctoplasmKathleen exudes ectoplasm from between her legs; sometimes it would become sufficiently rigid to tilt a small table
Leonora Piper - MediumLeonora Piper American medium
Mediums / Leonora PiperLEONORA PIPER American medium Date: 1859 - 1950
Seance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical ResearchUndated photograph of corner of the sance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, with trumpets on table. HPG/1/2/1 (vi)
Mina CrandonAmerican physical medium, whose authenticity was much questioned but never conclusively disproved
Dd home and ChairDaniel Dunglass Home, Scottish-American medium, remains the most enigmatic of all spirit mediums, performing extraordinary feats which have never been explained
Medium / Helen DuncanHELEN DUNCAN Portrait of the spirit medium circa 1940
Fox Sisters & TableTHE FOX SISTERS They demonstrate their ability to levitate a table, to the reverend Hammond, who is suitably impressed
Paranormal / MediumshipHow apports are supposed to pass through walls thanks to the agency of the spirits
Mediumship / SeanceRaphael N Hutter attends a seance with an unnamed French medium
Austrian medium Maria SilbertPhotograph of the Austrian medium Maria Silbert, wearing a hat and sitting in a coach outside her home in Graz, 1933. Austrian medium Maria Silbert (died 1936)
Frank Decker & PriceHarry Price tests Frank Decker, one of Americas most outstanding mediums : he was of Syrian origin. Date: 8 June 1933
Margery Crandon 7Spirit photo of controversial American medium Margery, with alleged spirit faces. Few today would attempt a defence of Margery - writes investigator J Gordon Melton
Duncan Ectoplasm 4English medium Helen Duncan ejaculates a trailing flow of ectoplasm for Harry Price. It is very similar to cheesecloth in composition
Seance with Rudi SchArtists impression of a seance with Austrian medium Rudi Schneider at London, under the supervision of Harry Price : the reality was seldom if ever as dramatic as this !
Rudi Schneider SeanceRudi Schneider (centre) - Austrian physical medium - and Harry Price (second right) re- enact their session - London
Handkerchief Knot TestTest at the National Psychical Laboratory on Rudi Schneider the Austrian spiritualist physical medium. Here, a knot has allegedly been tied paranormally in a handkerchief
Margery and EctoplasmMargery, with her hands tightly clasped by sitters, nevertheless manages to exude ectoplasm from her nostrils
Palladino at GenovaEusapia raises a table while controlled by Morselli, at Genova, 12 July 1906 picture 2 of 2
Spirit Photo MumlerPhoto by William Mumler, showing Mrs Lincoln with the spirit of her husband, Abraham Lincoln
Fox SistersThe Fox family respond to mysterious rappings in their home at Hydesville, New York, which they attribute to spirits; this leads to the creation of spiritualism
Mediumship / Table TurningA table turning seance gets out of hand in Lyon, France
Rev Francis Ward Monck and William Oxley, spiritualistsRev Francis Ward Monck (right, c. 1842-?)) and William Oxley (1823-1905), spiritualists. Oxley was a Methodist, Swedenborgian, spiritualist and writer based in Manchester
Gladys Osborne Leonard, trance mediumGladys Osborne Leonard (1882-1968), British trance medium. Date: 20th century
Harry Prices investigations into Helen DuncanPhotograph of Esson Maude recreating where she sat during sitting with the Scottish medium Helen Duncan at the sance venue in Edinburgh, January 1933
Danish medium Anna RasmussenUndated photograph of the Danish medium Anna Rasmussen (1898 - ?), author of automatic scripts
Alleged Abnormal levitation of a tableUndated photograph of the alleged abnormal levitation of a table (inverted), photographed at a sance with Mrs Poole of Winnipeg. HPG/1/7/25
The method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediumsUndated photograph showing the method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums by means of electrical control. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into
Kluski Spirit GloveCast of a spirit glove made at Warsaw by Franek Kluski (pseudonym) (1874 - ?) in the presence of Richet, Geley and others
Rudi Schneider TestedAustrian medium Rudi Schneider is tested in London by Harry Price and colleagues. The findings suggest psychic powers but are controversial
Duncan EctoplasmHELEN DUNCAN, tested by Harry Price, exudes a sheet of ectoplasmic material which closely resembles cheesecloth
Goligher StructureAt the Goligher circle, Belfast, Kathleen creates a psychic structure, supposedly from ectoplasm (the crack is in the original glass plate which was dropped)
Mediumship / CaranciniItalian physical medium Francesco Carancini demonstrates table-lifting, though bound and seemingly in full light; he was however widely accused of trickery
Crandon & HoudiniMargery in a fraud-proof box devised by Richardson and Houdini; the latter is holding her left hand, her other hand is held by Walter Prince
Margery Seance - 4Margery, in trance and her wrists held by sitters, exudes ectoplasm which spreads right across her face
Home, Resting HeadAmerican spirit medium
Kluski and BirdAt Warsaw, in the presence of Colonel Okolowicz and others, though searched before and after, Kluski materialises a huge bird
Cook / Katie King Photo 4Katie King manifests at the home of Sir William Crookes, though neither of the two sitters seems particularly interested in the spirit
Seance, LeipzigSpiritualism comes to Germany - a table-lifting seance at Leipzig in the early days
Paranormal / PsychokinesisSTANISLAWA TOMCZYK Polish medium, demonstrates PK while under hypnosis, to Ochorowicz at Wisla, Poland, raising small objects
Stanislawa PPolish psychic Stanislawa P. produces ectoplasm at Munchen in the presence of Schrenck- Notzing; in 1930 Osty accused her of systematic deception
Mediumship / SatiricalTHE PLEASURES OF HAT-MOVING To perform this scientific experiment, the experimenters must touch hands for 20 minutes or so
Margery Crandon 4Controversial American medium Margery in trance. She was exposed by Houdini but many believe her genuine
Stella CranshaweSpirit medium discovered by Harry Price, who seems to have believed her genuine, in contrast to Helen Duncan
Testing RasmussenApparatus used by Christian Winther to test Danish medium Anna Melloni Rasmussen (born 1898) at Copenhagen : positive results were obtained
Schneider HandkerchiefIn a seance with Harry Price, Austrian medium Rudi Schneider causes a handkerchief to move paranormally by psychokinesis
Spirit Photo BoddingtonH Boddington and a female spirit form, photographed under test conditions
Levitation SeanceAt a dramatic seance, one of the sitters finds himself levitated while all kinds of trickery is in progress
Jan Guzyk, MediumPolish medium, in 1922 or 1923
Mrs LeonardGLADYS OSBORNE LEONARD English spirit medium
Flower ApportsSupernormal flowers which were apported during a seance with the medium Miss X (the one standing)
Eglinton & FigureFull materialisation of a spirit entity at a seance with Eglinton as medium
Stainton MosesThe Rev. W STAINTON MOSES (1839-1892), English spirit medium
Kluski FigureA mysterious figure, swathed in a white shroud, appears behind Kluski at a Warsaw seance
Mediumship / DemangeA table is levitated even though it is separated from the medium by a screen
Mediumship / GazzeraFemale figure evoked by Italian physical medium Linda Gazzera (who was subsequently exposed by Schrenck-Notzing) Date: 1911
But it was only young from next door, larking with the bust out of the library; and it being the fashion to make fun of dear old Shakespeare just now, the joke took immensely. Date: 1864
Opening of Julia's Bureau, with W T Stead and staffGroup photo at the opening of Julia's Bureau, a seance circle, with W T Stead (far right) and staff. The Bureau was based in Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, London
Spirit head and shoulders sketch of D. D. HomeDaniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume') (March 20, 1833 June 21, 1886) was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights
Ethel Beenham, Harry Price's secretary, demonstrates how a skilful medium can perform any number of psychic phenomena even though her hands and feet are tied. Date: 1930s ?
DAVENPORT POSTER 2Poster for Ira Davenport, who returned to the stage after the death of his brother William : pretending to be spirit mediums they were skilful stage magicians. Date: 1894
MARGERY AND BIRDMargery's dead brother Walter mischievously pulls down a strongly-secured cabinet on Malcolm Bird, the intrepid investigator of Scientific American Date: 1924
WALTER T STINSONMina Crandon's dead brother Walter Stinson, who ostensibly gave strong evidence for his survival after death during his sister's seances
French spirit photographer Edouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) is cleared of evil fluids by a medium, before he takes a spirit photograph: he was convicted of fraud in 1874 Date: circa 1874
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HARE'S APPARATUSRobert Hare's device for communicating with the dead Picture 1 of 2 Date: circa 1854
SPIRIT PHOTO HUDSONA male sitter reads a book, unaware that a female spirit - possibly his dead mother - is hovering behind him. Date: circa 1872
EGLINTON & WRITINGSlate writing by the spirits of the dead is demonstrated at an Eglinton seance Date: 1886
Spirits materialise at a seance organised by Achille Borgnis ; they are illuminated by luminous plaques Date: circa 1920
IVY CARTER BEAUMONT known as Rosemary medium who recalled past life in Ancient Egypt Date: 1893 - 1961
The Materialisation of a Dead SonCharles Victor Miller at Paris, 18th June, 1909, produces figure claiming to be the dead son of M & Mme Benezech, who duly recognise him. Date: 18 June 1909
Mediumship - a spirit perplexed 1853A spirit perplexed. A woman visiting a medium requests she asks the spirit of her deceased husband Augustus where he put the receipt for a repaid claim. Date: 1853
Controversial American medium Margery is presented with a loving cup by admirers at the Psychic College. Date: 1920s
WEBBER LIFTS TABLEJack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, raises a table above shoulder height, by manipulating gravity and etheric forces Date: 1939
MEDIUMSHIP / WEBBERJack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, uses ectoplasm to send objects round the seance-room Date: 1939
Elizabeth Hope, known as Elizabeth d Esperance, materialises the spirit of Leila Date: 1855 - 1919
CRANDON SEANCEA scene at one of Margerys seances : ectoplasm is emerging from somewhere, to the amazement of all those present Date: circa 1925
MARGERY SEANCE - 5Margery, in trance and her wrists held by sitters, exudes ectoplasm which drips from her face Date: circa 1924
SUNNY ISLANDLife in the Summer Land : an excursion to Sunny Island Date: 1887
