FAKE SPIRITS.
EXPERTS HOAXED. SIR A CONAN DOYLE ADMITS HE WAS FOOLED. LONDON, Oct. 28. An extraordinary instance of faking of spirit photographs is revealed in the “International Psychic Gazette,” which published in September four photographs of Mrs. Falconer, president of the Edinburgh Psychic Centre, surrounded by spirits, including a woman’s and children’s faces, whom' relatives theyj l-eadily recognised.
The photographs were taken at seances by Mrs. Falconer’s schoolboy sons, whom the Gazette described as modest and unsophisticated, and incapable of faking the photographs. Sir Arthur Cohan Doyle said he believed it was one of the most remarkable spirit photographs he had ever The Gazette’s October issue, however, contains letters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other spiritualists declaring that the pictures are fakes. They point out that the “spirits” in them have been reproduced from various pictures, including the woman fro.™ Albert Moore’s “Blossoms” and children: from the angels’ heads in Murillo’s “Holy Family:”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 5
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