The National Laboratory of Psychical Research was established in 1926 by Harry Price, at 16 Queensberry Place, London. Its aim was "to investigate in a dispassionate manner and by purely scientific me
Harry Price testing the medium Pasquale Erto at the laboratory in 1931 – the "Luminous Man" from Naples was exposed as a fraud.
Séance room of the laboratory
Helen Duncan
Videos
Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims. She was famous for claiming to produce ectoplasm,
National Laboratory of Psychical Research
…information just doesn't exist." In 1931, the National Laboratory of Psychical Research took on its most illustrious case. £50 was paid to the medium Helen Duncan so that she could be examined under scientific conditions. Price was sceptical of Duncan and had her perform a number of test séances. She was suspected…
Portrait of Helen Duncan
Photograph shot by Harvey Metcalfe during a 1928 séance, revealing Duncan with dolls.
Duncan with cheesecloth and a cut out newspaper face
Duncan with ectoplasm made from a rubber glove