Leslie Flint was a British self-proclaimed medium who is credited as having been one of the last psychics to use direct-voice mediumship.
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19 Facts About Leslie Flint
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Leslie Flint has been described by spiritualists as the most renowned psychic of the 20th century.
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Leslie Flint was born in London in 1911 and reached the peak of his fame from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Leslie Flint was famous for claiming to contact the spirits of dead celebrities, and would often record his sessions.
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Leslie Flint claimed his familiar, Mickey, was the spirit of a child who had been killed in 1910.
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Leslie Flint claimed to have seen his first spirit at the age of seven when his dead uncle appeared to him in his home.
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Leslie Flint was a conscientious objector in World War II, serving in the Non-Combatant Corps before being seconded to coal-mining.
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The first public seance performed by Leslie Flint was in 1955, just after he formed an association called the Temple of Light.
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Leslie Flint was an avid fan of Rudolph Valentino and acquired the only known copy of footage from The Young Rajah.
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Leslie Flint was wealthy and lived in a mansion house at Westbourne Terrace near London Paddington station.
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Leslie Flint instructed his guests to "uncross" their legs, which Roeg subsequently incorporated into the film.
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Leslie Flint would perform bound and gagged in an attempt to prove that he was not throwing his voice.
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Leslie Flint claimed that he was able to conjure ectoplasm from which he could then reconstruct vocal cords.
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However, Leslie Flint always insisted on performing in the dark, so seance-goers were unable to see him during the performances.
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Recordings of Leslie Flint's seances are now stored at the University of Manitoba.
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Leslie Flint was accused of using prerecorded tapes to produce voices, as well as live accomplices providing a two-way voice channels.
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Parapsychologists from the Society for Psychical Research who attended seances with Leslie Flint claimed he was using ventriloquism to produce the voices that they had heard.
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Leslie Flint's Valentino speaks with a stage French accent – shades of Charles Boyer – while his George Bernard Shaw sounds like an irascible English colonel, with no trace of his precise and memorable soft Irish brogue.
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Leslie Flint was asked by the interviewer to try to get in contact with spirits but failed the test.
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