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Jacques Cazotte and the Dinner Party of Terror

April 5, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In 1788, one year before the Reign of Terror began, a writer and would-be mystic was at a dinner party. Jacques Cazotte was a man of standing and was dining with the great and good aristocrats of France, poised to spoil everyone’s appetites.

The Great Poundland Spirit Board Debacle

October 24, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

Are Poundland selling a cut-price Ouija board? Better grab our pitch forks, protect the kiddiewinks and alert the local press. The demon apocalypse awaits!

Thomas Lynn Bradford – Dying for Eternity

October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Professor Thomas Lynn Bradford died on February 5th, 1921. Afterwards, the world waited for his message.

Annie Fairlamb Mellon: The Geordie Medium.

August 5, 2020December 18, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

Annie Fairlamb Mellon was one of the UK’s greatest materialisation mediums and is so rarely celebrated for her weird and wonderful claims.

Stanisława Tomczyk, Medium – Running with Scissors

July 22, 2020July 20, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Tomczyk’s main draw as a medium was her claim that she could levitate objects with the power of her mind, stop clocks and ‘influence the turn of a roulette wheel...

The Medium Exposed? Or, a Modern Spiritualistic Séance (1906)

July 19, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

the 1906 short film is a fantastic example of how spirit contact, or rather, perceived spirit contact, has been a source of entertainment and debate since its inception nearly 200 years ago.

Antoine and the Red Dress

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In 1960, Dorothy Jenkins was perusing a junk shop in Fulham when an old oil painting caught her eye...

The House of Faces

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

Over a period of seven days, the mysterious stain turned into the clear image of a face. A face that would not disappear, no matter how intensely Maria cleaned.

Hélène Smith: The Medium Who Spoke to Martians

May 17, 2019 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

Scientists and social reformers may be all well and good, but what about a young woman who spoke to aliens?

Helen Peters Nosworthy: The Medium Behind ‘Ouija’

January 7, 2019February 12, 2019 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

Without thinking, we attribute Ouija’s creation and branding to a huge faceless company, peddling plastic ponies in one hand and sprit communication devices in the other...

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