Mina Crandon
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Mina 'Margery' Crandon was an American psychic medium who performed under the stage name 'Margery' and claimed to channel her dead brother, Walter Stinson. Investigators who studied Crandon concluded
Mina Crandon with her "spirit hand" which was discovered to be made from a piece of carved animal liver.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his as
Mina Crandon
…paranormal ability, and others detected her in outright deception. She became known as her alleged paranormal skills were touted by Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and were disproved by magician Harry Houdini. Crandon was investigated by members of the American Society for Psychical Research and employees of the…
Portrait of Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1893
Professor Challenger by Harry Rountree in the novella The Poison Belt published in The Strand Magazine
Portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget, 1904
Sherlock Holmes statue in Edinburgh, erected opposite the birthplace of Doyle, which was demolished c. 1970