Inside a Victorian Séance: What Investigators Tried to Test

Podcast: Occult Knowledge · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-11-14

In 1870s London, Florence Cook’s séances became famous for the appearances of a figure called Katie King. Chemist William Crookes entered the debate after public suspicion, then conducted private sittings at his home using curtains, a phosphorus lamp, physical contact, cameras, and electric light. Crookes concluded that Cook and Katie were physically separate. Yet his own published reports preserved the complications: resemblance between the two figures, limited visibility at key moments, a curtained cabinet, and observations dependent on participants inside the room. This episode follows the case from the early Hackney séance...