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Critical SPR investigations into purported mediums and the exposure of fake mediums has led to a number of resignations by Spiritualist members. [53] [54] On the subject of fraud in mediumship Paul Kurtz wrote: No doubt a great importance in the paranormal field is the problem of fraud.
Franek Kluski, real name Teofil Modrzejewski (1873-1943), was a Polish physical medium criticized by trained magicians and skeptics as a fraud. Kluski was best known for his séances in which alleged "spirit" molds of hands materialized.
Danish medium Einer Nielsen was investigated by a committee from the Kristiania University in Norway in 1922 and it was discovered in a séance that his ectoplasm was fake. [37] He was also caught hiding ectoplasm in his rectum. [38] Mina Crandon was a famous medium known for producing ectoplasm during her séance sittings. She produced a small ...
“Look Into My Eyes” spotlights seven people who work as psychic mediums in New York. The cameras film in-depth readings with clients, but also follow them back home, where they share their own ...
Here is a list of people who claim to be mediums or channelers in communication with beings and spirits of the deceased, through the study and practice of mediumship. Mediumship is the practice of those people known as mediums that allegedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings. [1] [2
Katie King, Florence Cook and Sir William Crookes. Florence Eliza Cook (ca 1856 – 22 April 1904) was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, "Katie King".The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s.
The fake photos and articles being spread around online are mildly upsetting, but my main motivation for speaking out about them is to try to stop anyone handing over any money or personal ...
The psychical researchers W. W. Baggally and Everard Feilding exposed the British materialization medium Christopher Chambers as a fraud in 1905. A false moustache was discovered in the séance room which he used to fabricate the spirit materializations. [13] The British medium Charles Eldred was exposed as a fraud in 1906.