CHASING THE GHOSTS

Evening Star, Issue 19522, 1 April 1927, Page 8

CHASING THE GHOSTS

A CHALLENGE TO MEDIUMS It has fallen to an American, Mr Harry Price, to lead the chase against false ghosts in London. Price is the foreign research officer of the American Society for Psychical Research, and he has established a laboratory, the only one in England, for tho scientific investigation and exposure of spiritualistic phenomena. Ensconced in this laboratory, and surrounded by practically all the fraud-detecting apparatus known to science, he has issued a challenge to super-natural beings, one and all, to survive if they can his ingenious tests of genuineness. Those who offer themselves as mediums, purporting to produce supernatural manifestations during seances, are allowed to go into their trances in a dark room. They think they are alone, but an ultra-violet ray camera is also present, which can photograph, without any visible beam of light, whatever takes place. If the medium produced a “materialisation” the camera plate would record it, but so far no plate has done so. Two dictaphones also arc in the room to record every word and movement of the medium. These are augmented by-a radio broadcasting set, complete in every detail, which could broadcast seances all over England if desired. Another of the devices in this laboratory is an instrument capable of measuring the slightest change in temperature to onetenth of a degree. Price has exposed some of the most famous “ mediums ” in England, notable among which was the Crow photographic medium, whose unmasking he accomplished in the face of great opposition two years ago.