Mina "Margery" Crandon was a psychical medium who claimed that she channeled her dead brother, Walter Stinson.
32 Facts About Mina Crandon
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Investigators who studied Crandon concluded that she had no such paranormal ability, and others detected her in outright deception.
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Mina Crandon became known as her alleged paranormal skills were touted by Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and were disproved by magician Harry Houdini.
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Mina Crandon was investigated by members of the American Society for Psychical Research and employees of the Scientific American.
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Mina Crandon was the wife of a wealthy Boston surgeon and socialite, Dr Le Roi Goddard Mina Crandon.
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Mina Crandon's life has been extensively documented in magic and parapsychology literature.
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Mina Crandon later met Crandon when she entered a Dorchester, Massachusetts hospital for an unspecified operation, possibly appendicitis.
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Mina Crandon moved to Crandon's house at 10 Lime Street with her son.
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Mina Crandon later adopted her son and changed the boy's name to John Mina Crandon.
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Mina Crandon began experimenting with seances as a hobby, possibly to distract her older husband from a morbid obsession with mortality.
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Mina Crandon became so popular that her prayers were read by the US Army.
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Houdini claimed Mina Crandon had cheated and had rung the bell herself.
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Mina Crandon's hands were held by the investigator and the box with the bell was placed outside the control-box.
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Mina Crandon agreed to be tested and, because of the strict control, no paranormal phenomena in the seance were observed.
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The ASPR championed Mina Crandon and suppressed any reports unfavorable to her.
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Prince was accused by supporters of Mina Crandon of being biased against paranormal phenomena.
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Mina Crandon's husband was known for displaying nude photographs of her in her mediumship sessions.
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Mina Crandon was described as a beautiful woman whom men found "too attractive for her own good".
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Mina Crandon performed many of her seances in the nude, and was reported to throw herself onto the laps of her male sitters.
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Historian Ruth Brandon has noted that as Bird, Carrington and Dingwall were all personally involved with Mina Crandon, they were biased and unreliable witnesses.
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Rhine claimed to have observed Mina Crandon committing fraud in a seance in 1926.
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On 30 June 1925, one of the Harvard investigators saw Mina Crandon draw three objects from her lap.
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Mina Crandon had a luminous star attached to her forehead, identifying the location of her face in the dark.
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Mina Crandon took hold of the tip and very quietly pinched it.
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Mina Crandon was carried out of the room and the committee was asked to depart.
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In 1939, Mina Crandon's husband died and Mina Crandon, an alcoholic, went into a deep depression.
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Mina Crandon refused to wear tights, or to be internally searched, but no proof that Crandon had been surgically altered has ever been published.
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The "hand" appeared only when Mina Crandon sat next to her husband, who held or controlled her right hand.
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Mina Crandon used a trick in an attempt to fool psychical researchers that the "spirit" voices in her seances did not come from her own mouth.
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Mina Crandon's reputation was damaged when a fingerprint left on wax ostensibly by her channeled spirit, her deceased brother, Walter, was discovered to belong to her dentist Frederick Caldwell by a member of the Boston Society for Psychical Research.
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Mina Crandon's dentist divulged that he had taught her how to make these prints.
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Mina Crandon [Crandon] sought a private interview with me and tried to get me to agree, in the event the phenomena did not occur, that I would ring the bell-box myself, or produce something else that might pass as activity by Walter.